V - jolly jumper

On Sunday Hayden finally got to play in a jolly jumper.

He didn't like being strapped in, but oh what fun to stand up with nobody helping!
He has been having another play today. He started by checking out what it was that he was hooked up in...a future engineer perhaps???

Then he started to get the hang of it.

IV - tongue

On Friday Hayden found his tongue. He spent all day poking it out at people!

Progress report

Hayden had his 4 month check up yesterday (a few days early), and was a star as usual. His official measurements are now;

23/05/06 7.45 kg 65.5cm

Unofficially, I think that he is a bit taller than that. Grandma and I measured him again today and we would give him another 1.5-2 cm. Anyway, here is a picture so that you can decide how tall he is for youselves!

He is also in the 90th percentile, which means that he is bigger than 90 percent of his peers.

The Beginning

Hayden Maxwell Gilbert was born at 12.02 or 12.08am (take your pick!) on Thursday 26th January, 2006, making him the first baby born in Geelong for Australia Day 2006. Hayden was a p3 pin-up boy at the grand old age of 1 day old! At birth Hayden weighed a whopping 10lb 12oz or 4.875kg.

'Hayden' itself came out of the blue shortly after his arrival and is simply a name that his mum and dad liked. 'Maxwell' is taken from his grandfather (mum's side), and his great grandfather (dad's side). 'Gilbert' is carried on from dad's paternal side of the family.

With the saying keep your friends close and your enemies closer in mind, Hayden's two uncles (the people most likely to lead him astray in the future) were declared godfathers and now bear some of the responsibility for Hayden's wellbeing!

Hayden's Progress

Date Age Weight Length/Height

26/01/06 0 4.875 kg 54 cm
03/02/06 1 wk 5.020 kg
10/02/06 2 wks 5.170 kg 59 cm
22/02/06 4 wks 5.660 kg 60 cm
27/03/06 8 wks 6.590 kg 63.5 cm

His next weigh in will be on the 23/05/06 and the results will be posted shortly after that.

III

Bathtime.

II

Here are some more photo's that grandma sent me today.

I can see that it is only a matter of time before he is stripped bare, propped up on a fluffy stool & photographed!

I

This is Hayden's blog created by his uncle & godfather extraordinaire boyboy!! At first I thought his aunts and uncles could post pictures and comments about Hayden and they could keep it a big secret from him until they decided he was old enough to read what had been written without crying (too much). However, if we wanted to do that then I should probably have made the address a little less obvious... Perhaps we can have another blog...
Anyway, to kick things off I thought I'd post a picture and then I'll invite his mother to post a prologue...