Hello Uncle Ryan

Today Elliot finally got to meat the vaunted Uncle Ryan, who has already taken it upon himself to introduce her to all those wonderful words which Mummy and Daddy were avoiding. (not that we expected anything less!)
In her usual way Elliot decided that sleeping all evening was the best way to deal with Ryan and proceeded to refuse to wake up until the clock struck 10pm, which meant that just as we were about to ready to leave for the evening, we decided to stay a little longer to ensure that everyone managed to at least get a little of her wakeful time.
I've had to edit the picture to remove Uncle Ryans devil eyes, i wonder if he would melt in church if we asked him to be a godparent. Mwhahahaha.....
Thank you to Ryan, Chris and also to Paul and Julia for the beautiful gifts you've all given Elliot today.

Auntie Katie and Grandma visit

Well Auntie Katie and Grandma have just left, they've been here for a few hours. Elliot somehow made a judgement call and decided that Grandma was more comfortable than Auntie and proceeded to make sure that we all knew it. (it's not fun to watch, especially when i struggle to calm her myself!) It really does seem that my mother hasn't lost her touch after all these years.
We had a discussion about what we call Elliot ourselves, it seems a lot of the family are calling her Elli but being the dad i really have to say i'm not that keen on it. I'm not going to stop anyone calling her that, but i've decided to adopt the name Lottie.
It was lovely to see you both again, as i said before just come anytime it's not as though we're going anywhere anytime soon! Next time stay for some dinner, i am actually able to cook somethings, yeah you might have to abide beans on toast but it's better than nothing! ;)
Sis i'll make sure she's more sleepy when you turn up next time, so that she wont cry!
Oh and i hope you bring your car up to show us soon, it looks nice in the piccys!

One week anniversary!

Well i kinda forgot about this (lord knows how) but as of Friday Elliot was one week old! which means just another nine hundred and thirty five weeks before i will be able to tell her to go and sort her own life out (meh as if..)
I debated about posting this image or not, frankly i really didn't want to as i really should wear t-shirts more often around the house! But as I'm such an exhibitionist in my own home i figure there's nothing here you won't see elsewhere.
So on Elliot's first week birthday you can see here that i have taken to teaching her the basics of wireless Internet browsing. Unfortunately she has yet to develop the fine motor skills (or interest) required to appreciate yon interwebby, nor did the sight of the TBB, SiR, BBC or in-fact any website illicit any signs of interest from her. However she did manage to discover that pressing any of the following keys frustrated Daddy!:
F11
F5
Right Mouse Button
Left Mouse button
Windows Button
and i believe there were also a multitude of other buttons she managed to press in sequences that i have no concept of, but that managed to do all sorts of interesting things, from flipping the monitor through 90 degrees (Ctrl+Shift+left i think) bringing up the restore menu, bringing up a backup menu and a few other sub menus i haven't seen for a while.
So to bring this back to the point, here's a piccy of me and Elliot doing what i do best on her one week anniversary!

Thank-you Nana!

Well it's probably a little shameful to admit that if it wasn't for Nana the house would still be in a shocking state.
Nana has spent the whole day, tidying, cleaning, cooking and generally doing as much useful stuff as possible because Mummy and Daddy are either too poorly or too lazy/preoccupied (respectively) to actually get around to doing it.
And so it is with shame that i hang my head and admit that if it wasn't for Nana i think the likelihood is that we would probably have spent the whole day living in our own squalor. I'd love to blame the baby for this, but sadly as family read this website i know i would never get away with such a blatant lie. Instead i shall just claim that I've simply been overwhelmed with how much i really need to do around the house while my wife is recuperating.
I have managed to feed the wife and keep her watered while she feeds and waters Elliot, but the sleepless nights (and believe me i have been getting more sleep than Billie) have gotten to me and the housework was way at the bottom of the list of priorities, below food and clothing. So...
Thank-you Nana! I shall make sure you get a big hug in the morrow.
PS. Yeah OK i admit it, I'm possessive but all i can say truthfully to that is... :P~

Will they stay blue?

Well it's a question we've both been wondering. At the moment she still has bright blue eyes, which are similar to my own, we both know that the pair of us carry blue eye alleles, but my wife has green eyes and i think seeing as that at the moment Elliot basically looks to have inherited most of my features, the eye colour was a hot potato issue.
Billie insists that all babies are born with blue eyes and that despite being unlikely it's possible her eyes will change colour. However i am not convinced this is a likely possibility. I've been wondering about this whole inheriting attributes issue.
At the moment she looks remarkably like i did at a young age, she's got my eyes, my nose, my cheeks (i think), my dimples, my hair colour, unfortunately my toes! and it seems possibly my temper, but i refute that claim! I believe this early appearance of a fathers features is an age old trait, and she's unlikely to remain this way for ever, something to do with encouraging wandering fathers in 'ye olde times' to accept and stay with their child! Fascinating stuff, i can't wait to see how she grows up to find out if they are right.