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Archives for August, 2006


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Detling Military Odyssey

From a Fairfax point of view this was a small do, there being four pike, twelve musket, two sergeants, one drummer and one officer. It was an ECWS major though and there were probably a couple of hundred on the field, certainly one of the opposing pike divisions I saw over 30 pike in it. There were also hordes of other re-enactors, including a disturbing number of SS and Hitler Youth. The Saturday saw some rain and a very boring battle (we were in reserve and it was a billiard table relieved only by someone's very small shed, a couple of loose fences and some bales of hay). All round us were lots of wigwams and we attempted bravely to follow the script but in the end gave up and took a cannon before the KA retreated from the field.…
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Sleepless Nights

There have been a few more than usually sleepless nights of late. Poor Alexander has picked up an infection of some sort at nursery and this has made him successively vomit (Tuesday evening/night) and then very fractious and clingy since then. Tracy and I haven't had much in the way of sleep, it has been go to bed early and then get up frequently to minister to a crying boy. He's really very cute and looks properly poorly. You can tell the difference between this sort of crying and the sort where he tries it on to get cuddles and his own way.
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Running

Well Alexander isn't running yet, but he is a lot better at walking. It has been a busy few weeks with not a lot of time to do anything more than play with Alexander, sort myself out for work, eat, sleep and go to and from the office. Tracy has also been working both weekends which has meant that I've not managed to do anything those days either as Alexander and I have been having fun and he has been having his sleeps when we've been out thus reducing the little time I get to use a computer (and by implication post to this blog). Anyway we're gearing up to go to Detling this weekend for the annual multi-period historical re-enactment event run by Kent County Council. It is one of the biggest going in the country, perhaps only the English Heritage Festival of History comes close to it in terms…
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Walking!

Alexander walked unassisted for the first time this afternoon!There is a short (13 second) video on the web of him taking not quite his first steps. Sadly I missed the very first time he did it because I was putting the cover back on his car seat - although he has recently taken two steps and then stopped when standing up so it could be said that he has walked already, but today is really the first day that he has properly walked. Anyway the afternoon has mostly been taken up with getting him to walk backwards and forwards between Tracy and me. The bit that wasn't doing that was getting the video into a usable format for the web and making sure the grandparents could watch it.
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Controlled Crying

That's what we're doing to poor little Alexander. He's now in his own room and that makes it a lot harder to get up in the middle of the night to see to him if he wakes up. So we're trying to teach him to go to sleep on his own in the cot in his bedroom instead of being nursed to sleep on our bed. It is definitely the right thing to do, but like so many right things it is very difficult. You just want to charge in and pick him up when he cries. However the drill is to let him be for a few minutes and then just to pop in and speak to him. No cuddles or picking up otherwise he'll think the crying is being rewarded. Very tough on the heart.
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