Imogen's spring update

Hi all,

this collection of photos and videos is a total mish mash of stuff over the past couple of months. There is the annual pic of the 3 of us by the cherry tree on her birthday. Imogen is definately growing at a better rate. However, reading the tag on the tree, it will reach 4 metres in 20 years and will likely pass Immie at some stage (hare and tortoise). £27.50 we paid for the tree prior to her 1st birthday. Wouldn't have remembered that but the price tag is still on.


There's some videos of her birthday party, grandad getting eaten by a goat, going it alone on a whoop-de-doop slide and dancing at the holiday park.


In the photos are pics of our trip away in the caravan with neighbours and other stuff.


See y'all.







Immie's bithday cakes made by Laura and Shaz.


Party video.

Pickering railway station. Spot Immie in red.

With cousins, Emma and Ben and Nanny
Immie and best friend Lucy on hols.

Set for a night of dancin'!

Someone push mummy of the cliff!

WPC Dyson (there is no such thing as WPC anymore as it's not politically correct- wpc is not pc)

Eat him alive, Billy! Video

Imogen's new electric Hummer jeep.

Dancing with Mummy. Video

Immie's first solo slide. Video

Grandma and Grandad came on hols with us

Holiday in Auchterarder - Scotland

Hola troops,

been on us hols!! We live for holidaying. Working sucks, but worth it for family holidaying. Any road, we went to Scotland for a week. Well as it happens 8 days as we didn't want to go home and phoned the owner of the cottage to stay an extra day.
Auchterarder was the town we stayed in, in a nice little cottage (Townhead Cottage - available to rent at good rates). Weather was fab for the time of year and the week was pretty action packed.

Here's what we did:

Saturday - drove up and stopped in Moffatt for dinner. Go and see the singing potter if ever you are there. Arrived late afternoon and went out for tea in Aberuthven, nice pub called the Smiddy Haugh. Daddy had pidgeon to start and venison for main. Mummy had mushrooms to start (food of the devil) and sirloin for main. Imogen had pate for starters, main and dessert.

Sunday - Can't really remember, but we went to Crieff and had a drive round.

Monday - Went shopping to Perth.

Tuesday - Went on the park across the road from the cottage in morning. Afters, went to Perth to a cool swimming baths with rapids, 2 water shoots and slides for Immie.

Wednesday - Went to Aberfeldy. Let Linz drive as a treat (on the way back). We have a new car, it's splendid and needs to be treated like a lady. Went to the Dewars whisky distillery. Bought a nice bottle. Daddy nearly caused serious injury to Imogen. It could have been curtains for her!!

Thursday - Lindsey's birthday, She's 68!!! Doesn't look too good for it. In the morning and afternoon we went to Stirling castle, excellent, very well built and sure to keep out those pesky English. Think Ims was a bit bored by it.
Mummy wanted to go bowling afterwards, so we did. Immie came last in both games - cool result! No offence, but I'm in it to win it, no matter how old the competition! Linz won one, I won second game. Immie might have won the third - but we went off for somert to eat. Very good too. Pappa Joe's, Stirling - tops for steaks.

Friday - Called in at Gleneagles and bought an expensive golf shirt. It's the profit that makes it expensive!!! Went to Noah's Ark. Brill place for kids in Perth. Recommended, unless you're over 12 and single. There were big ball pools, Karting and bowling. As we'd been bowling the night before, we didn't bowl but the kartin was up my (daddy) street. There were twin seaters, slightly slow but quick enough to get some tyre screech on the hairpin corners - see movie. Daddy (me) had to drive one handed whilst holding Immie in place. The centrifugal force at 20 mph is phenominal! Daddy, turfed out said child and tried one of the fast karts. I have not put the movie of me on the blog, as I was just too fast for mummy to record. Anyway, Immie laughed all the way round. Then, as if we hadn't had enough excitement, we went back to the swimmimg centre.

Saturday - this was bonus day when we should have been going home. Car didn't move, so we went to the park... and the local pub. Saw stephen Hendry (snooker player) in his merc on the high street. He lives in Auchterarder. Was tooting his horn at his young lad. Noisy aiparth! Chilled sort of day.

Sunday - Booooo! Went home. Called in at the Falkirk wheel. Genius engineering. Stopped off at Gretna Green for a wee and coffee. Daddy prayed Mummy didn't ask to renew vows!! Daddy bought Mummy a chinese bowl set for the tea table - see Daddy loves Mummy really. Got home 1800 hours.

Th, Th that's all folks.

Daddy

Ps. there are 4 videos to view. Don't forget, you can enlarge the photos by double clicking them.

Gleneagles

Bowling and meal for Linz's birthday.

Stirling Castle

Plaits caused bad hair

The play park and the cottage.





We played Ker Plunk with Imogen - literally!

Falkirk Wheel

Chocolate mouth.

Bowling on mummy's birthday




Immie sings Mamma Mia




Sliding at Noah's Ark




Karting, check out the screetching tyres in the hairpin. Immie clings on for dear life.

Snow in Morecambe - 2nd Feb 09

The faceless snowman.

Cool! (literally)

Snow fell and properly, an amazing one inch of it. Jut like when we were young. Dragged Immie out of bed and straight into the garden. It's the first time she's seen proper snowy snow and I don't mean that crappy ice stuff that you convince yourself is snow. She did see snow when she was tiny. We had her in her baby walker with oxygen out in the garden 3 years ago. That must have been the last time it snowed.

Anyway, me and Imogen started to build a snowman. She got bored after 2 minutes...I did after 5. Too damn cold. I'm thinking it's about 7 inches and faceless.

Bored of the snow already. Gonna call her in before she gets cold!

TTFN

PS are you impressed? I have taken pics and posted on the blog with 10 mins of taking them.

Imogen has two left feet, it ends in tears.

Two post in a week! It's only because I have sussed putting video clips on. Lets face it, pics and vids are far more interesting than words.

Last week we went with hayley, Colin and Harris to Blackpool tower to watch Aladdin. In the morning we went in the tower ballroom where twinkle toes Rogerson waltzed an besotted Dyson onto the famous floor. It all went pear shaped which you can see.

Immie in Jungle Jims, Colin and Imogen

Video in the ballroom

Christmas 08 and stuff - got a video clip too

With her prsents from father Christmas

Na then groovers,

S'pose I should get some blurb on da blog and big it up massive!! (trying to sound young)

Medical update bits. Imogen is going at her usual pace regarding her eating and doing OK ish! Same old really but she'll be reet. And that chaps is it. Oh went to see Dr Rakowski - the dude that did her original surgery. We trot over to Manc just to reset the clock. He said, "Why errr she no eat errr", (he's Hungarian or somert like that, talks in broken english). He says same thing every time we see him. Think we replied, "Dunno". Any road, we sacked that bit off and talked about her chest drain scars. He said that he or some plastic surgeon eventually will fix it up in time.

She is doin brill at school. Writing her name, counting to 39 (don't ask why it stops there) and texting her mates. Ok, lied about the last, she has no mates. Lied again.

For christmas she got her long awaited pusher. Blue with bees on. She can do kerb endos, 360's an slam it on the rear from ours to the Jubilee club. Baz, what's wrong with ya - ya don't often tell porkies - but the 80's BMX lingo is coming back. We have had a few trips down the prom with Harris, Hayley and Colin and on boxing day, Simon and Janet. This time next year, Simon and Janet!!!! Be pushin a pram - woo hoo. Not us. Si is the sperminator. Well done dude.

Anyway, christmas, yes, fun, pressies food the usual sort of stuff. Chrismas is a time for the little ones. Who quoted that bilge? I got loads of cool stuff but alas this is Im's blog. Grandma and Grandad came for dinner with Phil pretty ill and on Immie's oxygen. After dinner, he went to the hospital, there he styed for 10 days and saw in the new year. In the afters, we went up to Uncle Martin and Auntie Sharon's for the pressie giving ceremony. Immie still has stuff that she's yet to play with. She got far too much but hey!

Another 4 weeks from now and we are on our way to Scotland where we have booked into a cottage near Gleneagles. Log burner included and I'm sure we'll get cosy and toasty. Think the Mrs has romantic plans for the rug before it!

Had a bad do a few months ago with a log burner and a tin of butane. We're still here - just!!

Come back soon troops.

Bazza

Ps for the first time, Video.

Quarterly Update - it's a poor show!

Above - at Grandad's garden.

Left - On holiday at Scotland.

Edinburgh Castle

The wet caravan weekend. Kay smiling behind gritted teeth and enjoying herself!

Adam, Millie, Sam and Linz.

The caravan, just so you don't forget it!

Cousins Emma and Ben.

It really is a poor show on the part of the blog author. Listen up, I have been a busy boy. I have recently completed decorating the lounge. It took 3 months and pretty much all my spare time. Well maybe not all, but it's a reasonable excuse.

Anyway, I'm sure know most of you will know what we've been up to as we've probably seen you all since our hols and such like.

It has been pointed out by someone who shall remain nameless, (*aul *ooper, *igh *ycombe, *ucks) that the blog has lost it original meaning and focus. Effectively being more of a Dyson diary. So PC, I shall focus more on the subject. I know it was meant in jest.

Any road, Imogen is fab at the moment. We had a blip in health, which resulted in us taking her to hospital but we got turfed out. They know at the hospital we have all the facilities at home to give her the best care and I think they know we give her the best attention. It was just some sort of viral infection, but it knocked her out for about 10 days or so. She was back on the oxygen and quite a lot of it. She hated it.

I think since last time I blogged, we have really mastered toilet training (lumps and liquids!! - that's Imogen by the way!!). It's rather extreme though and she wants to go every 15 minutes - just so she can go and wash her hands and put hand cream on. I think she's got a compulsion disorder.

Regarding food stuff, pretty much the same. Still filling her mouth chip monk style. Some days are better than the other. We have had to start applying for funding for when she starts school. That will be to fund someone being able to feed her. It maybe that they will train up a teacher to do it. You know, any Tom, Dick or Harry could do it, but health and safety malarky rubbish.

For Christmas she has asked for a bike - a blue one! We had her buzzing round Halfords last week on one that has bees on. She has to write to fat boy in Lapland though and be good. She doesn't want to wear a helmet though. Vanity already!

She is loving her pre-school at the moment and doing very well. They have said that her colouring is very advanced and that she is very caring towards other children. She doesn't like to see others crying and has great concern. She isn't overly interactive with others but she does have a small circle of friends.

The internet has been discovered and has to be limited to the time she spends on Cbeebies website. She drag and drops in puzzles and plays Bob the builder game and can paint Thomas' engine shed. Believe it or not, she can now type her own name unaided (can't find the shift lock yet for capitals). Tell ya what else she does, loads and unloads the DVD player to watch her films. But, properly. Replaces DVDs in their rightful place and holds them using the hole. How long will that last before she can't be arsed?

As per usual, we have been on loads of weekend trips away. We never seem to be at home for more than 5 minutes. We have been to Edinbugh for 10 days recently. OK, ages ago in September but after my last post.

We went to Ecclefechan for 3 nights with Kay, Adam and kids (neighbours). Us in our caravan (have I mentioned our caravan?) and them in their tent. Pissed it down, just like our Ireland holiday, but we had a great time. We 3 then headed north up to Seton Sands - Haven holday park - just along the coast from Edinburgh. We went for 5 days where it was reasonable weather. Immie was dancing every night in the cabaret and going on the slotties, (much to the dismay of Grandma Sylvia). We did beechy things and a trip to Edinburgh. On route back, we towed the van in high winds back down to Locherbie. Stayed at a less lively sight but pleasant for just one night before heading home. You'll be pleased top know, she (van) has gone into storage for the winter.

As you know, Immie maybe have a brother or sister this time next year. Things are under way.

Who knows what next year will bring? Maybe a new years resolution - Weekly blogging? Watch this space....