Progress Update

Today is of course Mothering Sunday, Claire’s first which is strange in a weird sort of way, as Claire and I have never been on the receiving end of this yet (well, to be precise, I haven't either yet as Father's Day comes later in the year)

According to the wonderful world of Wikipedia, Mothering Sunday is:

“Mother's Day was created as a day for each family to honour its mother, celebrated on various days in many places around the world...”

“In the United Kingdom and Ireland, Mothering Sunday falls on the fourth Sunday of Lent, exactly three weeks before Easter Sunday. It is believed to have originated from the 16th century Christian practice of visiting one's mother's church annually, which meant that most mothers would be reunited with their children on this day.”

Living close to both sets of parents means the obvious that we cannot be in two places at the same time, so we ended up splitting the day into two and seeing each set for food.

Part one of Mothers Day came last night when my parents came over to our place for a Chinese takeaway from our regular haunt, which was good. Every time my parents have been over to see Jack, he has either been fast asleep or has been screaming his head off whilst being upset about something. But they came over before both of these things happened and managed to spend a bit of time with them when he was wide awake and happy. My dad even fed him, which meant that he had hold of Jack for a little while and it was enough time for me to do my paparazzi impression and take about a million photos.
Part two of Mothers Day was today, where we went to see Claire’s family for a Sunday Roast. We got packed up with almost everything that is baby-related in the car, and headed off down the road before I realised that I had forgotten my pap-cam, so didn’t manage to get any new photos from there.

In other news, Jack has been getting better at smiling over the past week or two and now returns a big whole-hearted smile if you smile or look happy at him. He’s getting good at sticking his tongue out which I might have mentioned earlier, but Claire is trying at present to take this one step further and getting him to do kisses in the air, which he’s getting slowly, but it’s a bit more involved than simply just sticking your tongue out.