Ahhh ... only nearly 2 years since I last blogged, soon Aengus will be able to type this himself!
I guess my blogging tailed off, OK stopped, when I had my foot operated on in Sept 07. It all turned out to be more invasive than I expected and I couldn't get about much. Had a neuroma removed and three toes broken, shortened and pinned back together. Done not so that I could get into groovy shoes, but so I could walk properly! All good now after a lot of physio, much better and toes look normal, and not like a few chipolatas sewn onto my feet - yuk! I am not going to get into the details of how I ended up having my gall bladder removed last September - a painful business which saw me being nee-nooed (ambulanced) with more gas & air than I had whilst in labour! Anyway, I had some morphine and a nice 2 night rest in Goring Hall for my trouble.
Aengus is of course now 2 yrs & 4 months young, and bonkers with it. He's very active, extremely cute and much to our pride, very polite! He is still swimming and has graduated from Little Dippers to Water Nippers, collecting 3 certificates and 2 badges on the way - bless him - I have to wear him out somehow. He also now goes to Angmering Day Nursery two afternoons a week. Gives me a chance to clear up the mess and possibly even get some work done. He absolutely loves it there and has come on in leaps and bounds. It's a super place and I am very tempted to see if he can have one full day there a week but I'm worried I'll do too much work or miss him!
Aengus had his first flight Feb last year to Marsa Alam in Egypt where we all had a wonderful time. Nan Nan came too and they got to know each other more. The trip back wasn't so wonderful at around 7 hours in the air and he exercised his lungs most of those hours. We've decided not to go away this year - we're scared!
Just before his 2nd Birthday in December, Aengus came down with a nasty tummy bug for over a week(along with thousands of others, including most of our family), which had us worried, but a 1am visit from a lovely emergency doc put our minds at rest and we all just had to ride it out. Aengus coped like a trooper, so did the washing machine! Nevertheless, he was back on form for his birthday party with his friends, although Uncle Gordon was looking a bit green around the gills and Auntie Clare was too ill - it really went through us all!
On the subject of Auntie Clare, Aengus has a new cousin on the way - how exciting is that? Due late July .... all great excitement and fun for the rest of us but the memory of labour still hasn't left me so my Sister has my empathy! Dolly is very excited!
Harry dog is getting to be an old fella now and had to have surgery on his eye, only to get the same problem in the other eye and has since appeared to also go deaf. I am quite sure that he actually is very deaf now and his sight is limited - doesn't stop him creating havoc left right and centre though, although he does sleep a lot more these days. He wees a lot and is quite smelly - I guess we all end up a bit like that - trouble is he still looks like a puppy - people have no idea that he's a geriatric!
Buried in the chaos, business goes on. Despite the economic climate, things are going well, seems people are hunting around on the internet more and doing more of their shopping online in general. www.rockedout.com has been rebranded to great response and I have been working on a new online business which will go live in a couple of weeks called EarlyWhirly. It's taken a lot of analysis and time but it's nearly ready to go - the products are being loaded into the site now, so if you're a curious type, have a look at www.earlywhirly.com - should be reasonably self explanatory!
Right, it's bathtime for Aengus - so I'm going to do that and then get some photos loaded (which let's face it, is what most people only look at anyway)!
Hmmmm .... seems we have an issue uploading photos. This is strange because all our photos are in Google Picasa so I guess until I have time to figure out how sharing them on my blog without sharing with all an sundry works, just drop us an email and I'll send you some links to our picasa albums!
