A few baby pictures / videos

If you have no interest in babies, please stop now. I won't be offended!

End of notice!

I've put some more pictures up here.

I also took a moment to upload some videos. One where little happens, and another with hiccups.

Also, if you haven't seen it and can bare it enough to not cringe, here's a video of Euan on safari...

Baby 3 - delivered safely...

Some pictures over at
http://picasaweb.google.com/aitken.mark/Baby3?authkey=Uj3rBUWVRzY

Too late at night to post much, suffice to say Allie and Baby are well.

7lbs10, little girl, no name yet.

My god, a little girl. How scary is that. How the hell do girls work? Need to find the Haynes manual....

:-)

Bed time for me.

Off to Berlin

I'm at a conference for the next 3 days in Berlin, specifically at the Estrel Conference Centre to attend the Business Insight 2007 conference.

Looking forward to some of the content at the conference, but will miss the family... At least I get to buy a cool toy for them or something similar on the way back!!!

PS - Bryan Adams was awesome. Really good old skool rock concert. :-)

Bryan Adams

Off to see him at the SECC tomorrow night with Allie. Promises to be a really good gig I think!

New house, nearly...

So the survey came back on the house, and none of this I expected...

- £60000+ for wiring, heating, windows, slate and plastering
- £60000+ for rebuilding the bulging gable end wall
- dry rot in existing extension
- damp in 3 rooms
- a few windows which need replaced
- conservatory is rotten, needs pulled
- kitchen is harder to access for construction than I'd thought
etc....

Must have been the best £650 I've even spent! Nearly bought a disasterous house!

So we are back to the question of whether we extend the existing property or continue to look.

Under a rock

I've been in hiding for the past few weeks. Sorry.

We've found a house we are interested in putting a bid in for. It's a step up, so the nerves are jangling. All these questions; can we afford it, is it worth it, will we have the energy to do it up?

We need more space though, that's for sure. I was approaching the point of kicking off extension work to the house, but it's fallen by the wayside to this idea.

Don't want to jinx anything by saying more. Fingers crossed though!

So this weekend is gardening to get our house in a good state as we start thinking about selling it. Got a few estate agents in next week to price my house.

As Lorna says, watch this space!

Lazy Sunday...

I love Sundays like today.

Rain is pelting down outside, music is on inside, food is on the go, kids are having fun dressing up / playing, house is in a complete guddle because it's being basically used to the full...

Best of all, those days where the agenda is so slack and slow that you get to tick off the little easy jobs which never seem to happen, the ones which require minimum effort for maximum reward.

The kids have a freak out moment occasionally, but between storms it's lush.

Warm socks, warm food, warm house, top day..

Hope your Sunday is as good as mine.

Ahhh.....

Baby 3, on the way!

I've mailed several of my friends already, but we have a 3rd baby on the way!!!

We went to the Queen Mothers in Yorkhill for the scan. Amazing how smart the scan is to watch, all the little details... Thank god for only one heartbeat though!

When we got home, Allie and I shared the scan with Ben and Euan. Both boys were impressed, but Ben was a little more intrigued. He and I went to the PC and look up the scans of himself and Euan. You could almost hear the 'click' when the little light came on above his head.

Due date will be August 30th 2007.

I've got Yellow Pages out now, looking for storage and builders...

Damn. Just got the littlest one out of nappies! :-)