Happy Passover & Happy Easter

Hi folks

A rare post from dad here just to wish you all Happy Easter and Happy Passover from all of us over here at Teplet Towers.

Here are some pictures of Coby and a couple of holiday messages he has passed on to help you all get into the holiday spirit.

He he he Daddy will never find his egg now, I have got it well hidden he he he!
HAPPY EASTER

My yarmulke that Granny Wendy got for me makes me look so cool...now if only I could get my hands on some of that mighty fine matzah...damn Auntie Stacey's grip is so tight - struggle struggle!
HAPPY PASSOVER

Interesting to note that Christians hide and hunt for eggs at Easter and Jewish folks hide and hunt for the Afikomen (middle matzah) on Passover...is there a connection?

Couple of pics for you from when we all went to the local farmers market.

This is mummy and me chilling out on a bench


This is daddy with nanna Ann & grandpa Les

MY MUMMY

I love my mummy. We are with each other every day. She takes me to visit friends and family, she cleans and sterilises my bottles and prepares my food. She cooks me lots of fresh, organic fruit and vegetables like pear, parsnip and sweet potato. She washes my clothes and irons them all to perfection. She reads me books and plays me music. She watches cool films with me like Finding Nemo and Toy Story. She baths me in lavender oil, holds the sponge up really high and squeezes it onto my tummy and pretends my rubber ducks are making quacking noises. She wraps me in a big, warm towel and then sprinkles magic fairy dust on me. She strokes my head when I am in my cot and sings Winnie the Pooh and sometimes sneaks in to watch me sleeping. I love my mummy. And I know she loves me too.

My mummy at school when she was five-years-old (front row, middle)

My mummy looking beautiful when she married daddy

My mummy and..........ME!

Our little Harry Potter

Coby is almost sitting up by himself, but still needs the occasional helping hand. Another couple of weeks and I think he will be there. It is amazing to watch your baby change so much in such a short space of time. To see them cross hurdles and do things for the first time is wonderful. It may not be big news for some people to learn that Coby is almost sitting up, but for me and dad, it's like turning the pages of an epic novel and reading another exciting chapter in our baby boy's journey. A novel that we just can't put down.

Standing up, sitting down

Coby wonders what happened to his parachute

Before realising it was just a flashback to last night's Bond movie!

Coby can now make us much mess as he likes in his new high chair.

Mummy's back problem is resolved. Everyone's a winner!

Me Mum

Today Super Mum is doing her final reflexology exam somewhere in central London and so I am in charge.

Duties started last night of course with me taking care of Coby so that Sarah could get a good nights sleep in prep for her exam.

Coby slept from about 8ish last night through to about 8ish this morning without stirring once or waking to be fed. Let me repeat that...12 hours! Wahoo! That's my boy ;)

He woke an hour ago, I changed and fed him and now...well, see for yourself:



Bliss.

Grandpa Lipa

Coby's grandpa Lipa is poorly at the moment, so we often go round to keep an eye on him and make sure he gets his medicine in the form of Coby.

CAPTION COMPETITION - WINNER

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the last caption competition is........Great Uncle Ivan!!

Thanks Uncle Ivan for suggesting the following:

"Look ma, no cavities"

Uncle Ivan lives in Canada, but auntie Toni is coming to London on 30 April so we will give her a special treat to pass on to him.

Coby meets Courtney

Congratulations to our pals, Scott and Bobbi who had a baby boy, Courtney at 8.48am on 22 March. Courtney weighed 7lbs 10oz and is a little gem.

Coby (19 weeks old) & Courtney (10 days old)

Striking a similar pose

Cool Dude

The sun finally had his hat on this week, so Coby put his on too and, armed with his Baby Banz and comfy cardigan, we set off in the car for a leisurely drive.

For My Daddy

Hello daddy, this picture is especially for you. Because you are at work all day and can't see me for a while, mummy thought it would be a good idea to show you what I am wearing today. I think I look grown up in my new check shirt and that I would fit right in at your office. What do you think?

Hanging with my homegirls!

" Hi Coby, ok if I hang out here a while with you?"

" Sure Lola, there's more than enough room for two"

" Coby, lets hold hands and smile for the camera"

"Cheese"

"Lets be friends forever, Cobes"

Patchwork present

Look at Coby's fabulous new quilt with his name stitched in the corner.
My lovely friend, Angela made this for him.
She also made the Pootle Flump bobble hat.

Happy Mother's Day!

To all you mummy's, Happy Mother's Day, especially to my mum, Ann and Al's mum, Wendy.

I love being Coby's mummy!!!!!

CAPTION COMPETITION 3

Can you come up with a caption for this photo?

Forward your suggestions by clicking on comments (below)
or e-mail me at teplet@hotmail.co.uk

Coby Pootle Flump

Auntie Teresa has sent me an e-mail pointing out how much Coby looks like Pootle Flump. I think the resemblance is striking - what do you think?

Just chilling with my buddies

Wednesday is our regular get together with our mums and babies. Today, Michaela hosted things at her house and gave us a gorgeous lunch with sandwiches, pitta bread, crisps, cakes, strawberries and chocolate mini eggs - yum, yum, yum!

Olly snuggles up to Coby

Coby with Lola

The entire gang; Lola, Olly, Coby & Alicia
(Louis & Jasmine couldn't make it today)

Milk is yesterday's news

A big moment for Coby as he samples his very first taste of baby rice. For a couple of weeks now, young Coby has been devouring full bottles, chewing on his hands, watching us with intensity when we ate and waking again in the early hours to be fed. With the encouragement of both grandma's I decided to go for it and see if my little lad was telling me that milk was just not good enough any more. And, as Homer Simpson's eyes would light up at the sight of some Duff Beer and a doughnut, Coby's too lit up the room and he ate the lot within minutes.

Coby prepares for his big moment

Success first time!

Saving to Coby's memory card?

I wasn't happy on Sunday when I found daddy introducing Coby to the playstation. Fortunately Coby didn't appear to be interested, preferring to pose for the camera, as he has now become accustomed.

"X is jump, circle is...oh, look there's mummy"

"Yeah dad, fascinating"

"Yikes - he's like a man possesed!"

Beautiful Boy

Here are the lyrics from a song that I like to sing to Coby every now and again...written by John Lennon to his son, Sean.

Beautiful Boy

Close your eyes,
Have no fear,
The monsters gone,
He's on the run and your daddy's here,

Beautiful,
Beautiful, beautiful,
Beautiful Boy,

Before you go to sleep,
Say a little prayer,
Every day in every way,
It's getting better and better,

Beautiful,
Beautiful, beautiful,
Beautiful Boy,

Out on the ocean sailing away,
I can hardly wait,
To see you to come of age,
But I guess we'll both,
Just have to be patient,
Yes it's a long way to go,
But in the meantime,

Before you cross the street,
Take my hand,
Life is just what happens to you,
While your busy making other plans,

Beautiful,
Beautiful, beautiful,
Beautiful Boy,
Darling,
Darling,
Darling Sean (substituted with Coby of course)

Roll on Spring

Here I am, all dressed up to face the cold wind. Mummy took me for a walk in the stroller and we saw lots of blackbirds, but mummy forgot her hat and her ears turned red, so we whizzed around and walked back home after twenty minutes. I didn't like the wind, it was too cold and I was the lucky one in my new hat with the big bobble on top. Mummy said she is not leaving the house now until Spring has arrived, the sun is out, the wind has gone and the daffodils are blooming. I don't know what any of that means, but I think it means we won't have to wear bobble hats!

Where's Coby?

He's disguised as a giant bowling ball! This was taken on 21 October last year, so about three weeks before Coby's birth. Lorna is on the right, pregnant with Toby.

Uncle Mark

Today mummy had to go to London to the reflexology school, so Uncle Mark came over to look after Coby. We love Uncle Mark, especially as he is a Spurs fan. He is also a police officer so Coby was in safe hands.

Here is a lovely picture of Uncle Mark with Coby in hospital when he was just four days old...

Four Months Old Today!

St.Teplet's Day

On Friday, apart from being St.Patrick's Day, it will be a year to the day that we sat and looked at a positive result on a pregnancy test! Now, we all have silly little anniversaries that are significant to us and this is one of them - a whole year since we discovered we were going to have a baby. I did a pregnancy test on the Thursday evening after work, acting on a 'hunch' that only came to me a few hours beforehand. Those tests tell you for sure, but somehow we still felt like we had got things wrong, so we purchased another test, a different brand which we used 48 hours later on Saturday evening. The result was "do you really need telling again?", so we hugged and smiled, yet still, for me at least, until I heard it from a doctor, I could not quite believe it.

A week later on a Monday morning, the GP faced us and said congratulations, if you've done two tests and they're both positive than, you're having a baby. What??? Don't take my word for it! Aren't you going to examine me? do another test? send it off to your laboratory? call me with absolute confirmation from the doctors in white coats? The GP shook his head and explained that all he had to do was send a letter to the hospital of my choice and they would be in touch with further appointments etc. Oh!

All we had to do now, he explained, was wait, and wait and erm, wait. Even though we had discovered this wonderful news for ourselves, we felt in disbelief and imagined that hearing it from a doctor would make it seem more real.

So, here we are a year on. Coby was once a blue strip on a pregnancy test, than, if you look to the left at the pictures, he was a potato on a grainy scan, than he was a baby-shaped image on a grainy scan that wouldn't keep still, than he appeared like a hazy dream into a room where I could have kissed every inch of wall for the euphoria I felt. Coby IS real, he is my beloved son and if I want to celebrate the anniverary of his very first sign to me, than I'll celebrate - just point me to the Guiness and I'll show the Irish how its done!

Sarah & Hannah

On Sunday we took Coby to see two of his biggest fans, Sarah (10) & Hannah (6). The girls were overjoyed to see us all and we had a lovely afternoon catching up. They very kindly gave Coby some of their old books and we headed home with a big box full of goodies including Thomas the Tank Engine, Postman Pat, Peter Rabbit, Spot and Grimm's Fairy Tales. Thank you girls!

Hannah, Coby & Sarah

Big Sarah watches over little Sarah as she helps to change Coby

Comparing feet...

A final hug before heading home.
Oh and Happy Birthday for the 16th Sarah.

A very generous donation!

Teresa's 30th Birthday Party

We've sneeked onto the site some pictures from auntie Teresa's 30th birthday party which took place at Shillibeers in Islington last Saturday night. Everyone looked stunning in their fancy dress costumes, but the night belonged to birthday girl, Teresa. She looked amazing as The Bride/Black Mamba/Beatrix Kiddo from Kill Bill.

Uncle Martin as Rocky & auntie Teresa as
The Bride aka Black Mamba from Kill Bill

Marilyn Monroe snuggles up to Yoda - very odd!

Nicola (Dorothy), Leon (Jules Winnfield)
& Tanya (Lara Croft)

Yoda (Al), Captain Hook (Dan),
The Snow Queen (Louise) & Gladiator (Richard)

Blog extra...

I just want to draw your attention to a couple of extra goodies on this site.

On the left hand side as you scroll down the page you will see Links. My new blog, Herts Reflexology can be found here along with City Hippy and Tepperama. Then, if you look under My Gang, you can view the blogs of some of Coby's friends.

Happy blogging...