XLV A message to family and friends

With Christmas and a first birthday rapidly approaching we wanted to remind you that Hayden is blessed to have been born in Australia, where the issue of child poverty is very minor compared with many other countries around the world.
He has parents that can provide everything he needs in way of shelter, food and clothing, as well as extra 'creature comforts'. He also has a massive extended family that give him lots of love.
At the request of several family memers we have set up a bank account in Hayden's name. This will allow family and friends to invest in Hayden's future. We would request that if you were thinking of giving Hayden a Christmas or birthday present that instead of buying him something, you instead contribute what you would have otherwise spent into his account.
Alternatively, you could contribute this money to a charity that can help other children in less fortunate circumstances.
(deposit slips or bank account details are available from Hayden's parents. If you are thinking about donating to a charity a good point of information is www.makepovertyhistory.com.au)

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And Rocky thinking about dinner...

XLIII - blowfish

Have I told you how beautiful Hayden is??? Here is the proof...

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Hayden has a new tooth popping through at the top (beside front), and another one on the way(opposite side).
He is still the most beautiful boy in the world.
He is also starting to make a move. He has been crawling around and getting into everything for the last few weeks, but today he pulled himself up on the coffee table and started to walk along the side of it.
He is also inhaling food. Still eats whatever we give him, but after he has his own meal he harrasses anyone else that is eating until they give him more.

XLI Rock & Roll

Double click for tunes!

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OK - so he looks like a little girl - but so very cute!!!
This photo was taken today, so now you know exactly what he looks like at the moment.
He has a ribbon in his hair because it is Aunty Trace's birthday and this ribbon was on the present that Hayden and family gave her.

Hayden is now very mobile. He is pulling himself up to stand on anything and everything, climbing the stairs at grandma and grandads house, and crawling to wherever it is that he wants to go at that particular time.

We can't see any top teeth coming through yet, but we think they are on the way as he was not well on Friday and woke up at midnight, 1am, 2am, 3am, 3.30am, 4.30am and then managed to sleep through until about 7am.

Sunday night was a bit better, but mum ended up taking him for a three hour walk in the morning (7.30 - 10.30am) so that he could have a sleep in the pram, and dad could have a bit of a sleep in.

Monday night was better again, and then last night he slept through until 6am. Yay! 6am doesn't sound that great but then he climbed into bed with mum and slept until 9am. Then he got up for brekky and a feed then went back to bed for another hour!! Not a bad life. Now he is at Granny's stuffing his face with biscuits and rockmelon!

XXXIX - who told him?!

Someone has let the cat out of the bag and told Hayden about the nudie shots on the 21st photo board. Who was it????

XXXVI - Chef Extraordinaire

Hayden has been helping Dad & Mum out in the kitchen cooking chocolate cake. What a wonderful job he did!

The best part was cleaning up or licking the bowl!

XXXV - Going to school

Hayden came to school to visit Dad and ended up staying for lunch with the teachers in the staffroom, while Mum and Grandma went off for a birthday lunch. They were late coming back, so Hayden ventured into the classroom with Dad and preceded to totally ruin 'silent reading' time!

He then became the topic of a Maths lesson on measurement where the chn had to guess Hayden's measurements and compare them with their own. It is safe to say that dad had no control over the children for the rest of the afternoon as Hayden had done his best to stir them all up!! Welcome to school life son!

XXXIV - Baby Gym

Hayden put on his new shirt and set off to Ballarat to attend his first Baby Gym class. He loved bouncing on the trampoline, scurrying through tunnels and dancing to 'Wheels on the Bus', but he especially loved playing with his Mum. We are not sure who had more fun - Mum or Son!

XXXIII - Auntie M the "Comment Queen"

Hayden thought that he had better thank Auntie M for all of her visits to his Blog and for making so many great comments. He gave her a special kiss when they visited recently for a picnic. Mmmm, Hayden loves food! Thanks Auntie M!

XXXII - Holiday

We had a great week on the NSW coast over the September school holidays. Hayden had his first plane ride, which he coped with really well. Spent a night in Newcastle before heading up to Nelson Bay for a few nights, then back down to Bateau Bay to stay with Auntie Trace for another couple of nights.
Didn't sleep all that well. Had a cold for the first day or two, and then a new tooth decided to pop through. Went swimming in the resort pool at Nelson Bay, and then at the beach in Bateau Bay. Practiced lots of commando crawling. Went from doing donuts on the Friday, to actually getting places on the Sunday.

XXXI - holiday snapshots

Some photos from our holiday to Port Stephens, Newcastle and Bateau Bay.


(sorry folks, for some reason this didn't upload the first time I tried to put it on - hence the delay)

XXX - beer, footy and cars

Hayden is still not quite crawling. He is really good at it though! Going backwards and donuts are now a fine art.

The following photos are from the footy tipping count up at Roslyn Primary. Beer and footy must be an innate thing...













He didn't win the tipping, but he did pretty well for his first season. Final score was up over 100, and that was with half the season tipped in advance.

Hayden has decided that if he can't get places crawling, he will just learn to drive early. So far Granny has been happy to let him take over the wheel, but we'll see how long that lasts.

Next week he is off on his first plane trip - flying up to visit Auntie Trace.

XXIX - dad

Very exciting yesterday - Hayden started to say Dad.
Now all he needs to do is work out what it means!

XXVIII - progress

Our little boy is a waif! I had a session down at the Health nurse on Wednesday so I put Hayden on the scales. He is up to 8.59kg (that was with clothes on). Sounds respectable, except that the other boys were weighed and they are up over 9kgs!

No time to keep typing, must go and feed the boy!!!!

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almost...

XXVI - hair of the dog

Naughty Uncle (godfather) Daryl.

Time the other godfather came home.

XXV - the wedding

This weekend Hayden went to his first wedding. It was a bit of a battle for him to actually take in the ceremony as he was sitting up the back near the musicians, and they seemed to be doing their best to try to get him to sleep. Very hard to keep the eyes open. He was very well behaved, although he did leave the service a little bit early (only because he wanted to be the first to see the bride come out???)

His dad had fun getting him all dressed up (especially spiking up the hair) but like most, Hayden was pretty happy to get his boots off at the end of it all.

(these pictures were taken pre-spike)

XXIV - update on all things Hayden

It's been a while...

Hayden is now having three feeds of solids a day. He has been a very lucky boy, one of the few Australian babies of his generation to have real banana!!! He's been eating pumpkin, sweet potato, zuchinni, parsnip, carrots, avocado, apples, pears, strawberries etc. He has also recently been having some lamb and veges, and chicken, noodles and veges. Then there have been the tastes of chocolate mousse, ice-cream, lemon tart, fish and chips, hamburgers etc.

He also has his first tooth coming through.

Still trying hard to crawl, though not getting anywhere (except maybe backwards!). He is also doing lots of circles and rolling. We never quite know what to expect when we go to get him out of his cot as he has little adventures in there too.












He still enjoys the car. The car seat has been turned around in Grandma and Grandad's car so that he is now facing forwards. Still waiting for dad to turn it around in his car though. Hayden and I had the car last week and we went to pick up dad from work. When I went to get Hayden out of the car I noticed that he had blood all over his botties and overalls. Turned out he had a little cut on his finger (still a mystery as to how it got there). It must have been quite deep as it bled for about half an hour.

XXIII - swimming update

We went for our weekly swim this morning up at good old Leisurelink. Wish we had Grandma with the video camera there as he was kick, kick, kicking around the pool with his funny little breastroke kick. I've been thinking about it though and I'm not sure he should become a swimmer...means I would have to get up to take him to training at 6am!

XXII - progress report

Hayden had his six month check up with the nurse last week. He also had his six month injections, but was very brave. His vital stats are now;

Date Height Weight
26/7/06 69cm 8.02kg

He is starting to even out now. Has gone from off the charts back towards the 75th percentile for height, and the 50th percentile for weight. Still feels like a big boofer to me though!!

XXI - DROOL

Double click for Dribbling!

XX - cute

Double click to see his bot-bot in action

XVIII - Magnum PI

Double click to see Hayden chewing something other than his toes...

XVII - toes

Hayden has a new favourite food. His toes!!!

XVI - high chair

Hayden got to sit at the 'big kids' table tonight. We have a spare high chair so I brought it around tonight so that he could join us for a Sunday roast. Mmmm, more pumpkin!

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HAYDEN blog gains extra dimension!!!




Double click and watch Hayden Jump!!

GO you Jolly Jumper!!!!!!!!!

XIV - ookilies

the pumpkin made it's way through his digestive system - pumpkin ookily pookilies!! It must have made him very content because he kept sleeping through his feeds yesterday.

XIII - prison break

Here is a better prison outfit photo, and also just a photo that I like.

By the way, if you don't comment I don't know if you are checking the site or not. Slackers!

XII - solids

Hayden has had a couple of tries eating solids, but until now has been unable to co-ordinate the whole putting the food in the mouth and swallowing. He is lucky that Auntie Nat usually leaves a piece of pumpkin on her plate at the end of Sunday roast, so that can be mashed up for him to try. When Hayden went shopping with mum this afternoon he was eating the shopping list so we tried him again tonight. He actually ate quite a bit tonight instead of just pushing it out, trying to suck. He even shared Auntie Kim's dessert with her. Look out scales.

XI - ferry, reading and Aunt Trace

While Dad was on school holidays we also went on an adventure to Sorrento. We caught the ferry across, Hayden's first sailing adventure. (D'oh, we should have had him dressed in his pirate outfit. )










Hayden has also been busy practising his reading

And, having brekky and swimming with Auntie Trace while she was visiting.

X - big boy and beach

Well it has been a while so there is a bit to update. The little boy is being very naughty. He is not listening to Uncle David, and is growing bigger every day. Yesterday we were in a shop in Torquay and Dad wanted to buy Hayden a new jumpsuit. He picked out a size 00. Mum said, "No way Dad. It might fit him right now, but it won't next week!" We got him a different pair, and now he looks like he should star on Prison Break.

Last Monday, the first day of school holidays, we went for a picnic at the beach. Hayden was wearing his new sunhat from Auntie Bev. Wasn't quite warm enough for a swim!!

More updates on Sunday.

IX - knitting

Hayden has been very lucky the last couple of weeks. Grandma has dusted off the knitting needles, and has been busy making jumpers for him. She has managed 3 jumpers in under two weeks. This is jumper number 2. I will put the other ones on when I have a decent photo of them.

VIII - aSPIRE to new heights!

Hayden's latest adventure was climbing up the main spire of St Paul's cathedral on a brisk Melbourne morning. Assisted by his Uncle Daryl he was able to see the city of Melbourne from a bird's eye view. A view few other people have ever, or will ever experience. Lucky boy!

VII - feet

Shortly after Hayden found his tongue, he also found his toes. It makes nappy changes interesting as he doesn't like letting go of them once he's got them. Last night he also started sucking his big toe so it will be interesting to see if that continues.