[since](http://www.adrian.tk/2006/12/what.html) [everyone](http://www.akester.net/2006/12/injustice-of-being-parent-at-christmas.html) [else](http://www.solveig.co.uk/2006/12/merry-christmas.html) [has](http://yetanotherbloomingblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/its-beginning-to-look-bit-like.html), some xmas bloggage.
A typical christmas I think — lots of family about and the kids were ill. I rather enjoyed it myself, even though I can agree with Rowan’s [lack of christmas spirit](http://www.akester.net/2006/12/injustice-of-being-parent-at-christmas.html). I’ve never expected much christmas spirit though, so it doesn’t bother me 
Poor Jacob has been teething and so had tonsillitis, which meant lots of disturbed sleep. He is getting slowly better, but his nights are worse than his days, and he’s not been eating much. He’ll be fine in a few days though I think.
We now need a new house to contain all the toys. Our first mission of today (once the kids are dressed) is to go down the road to buy enough plastic stacking storage to contain all the new toys. Next year we’re asking everyone to give us books and clothes.
The christmas dinner was a success, with the best turkey we’ve had yet, and a very nice ham, both from [Scott's](http://www.scottsofyork.co.uk/) [random plugins required]. I got to Scott’s at 8.30am on the 23rd and there was a queue down the road already.
I’ll stick a few photos up when I find the camera.
We moved house a few months ago, and the difference in the satellite images is quite striking. Here is before and after.
The power of the satellite imagery is remarkable — google maps still sends a shiver down my spine sometimes at the sheer awesomeness of it.
I haven’t blogged for ages, which is amazingly slack. I’ve been busy, is my excuse
First: we have a new son: Samuel Martin Winter and he’s ginger. He’s also lovely :D.
Second, we have an Isotoma Blog and all my work/technology things are there now, so this blog will only be for my personal stuff. Since everything I do seems to be work, this might be quite quiet.
All OK with young Jacob. I’ve got a new version of this site, built in Plone, coming up as soon as I finish it off, hence silence here…
We had to dash our son Jacob to A&E last night, because he had an
href="http://www.drgreene.com/21_1126.html">Incarcerated Inguinal
Hernia, which then became strangulated. He spent all night in A&E,
where the doctors managed to relieve the hernia, but it returned this
Morning.
He got put on the emergency list for an operation, and was operated on
at about 3pm this afternoon. The operation went well and the bowel was
undamaged. It’s possible one of his testicles has been damaged, we’ll have
to wait and see. As the consultant paediatrician said “fortunately you
only need one testicle”.
It looks like he might have a chest infection too, probably because he
was vomiting a lot and some of the vomit got into his lungs. He’s spending
the night in Intensive Care for observation. He’s not on a ventilator or
anything right now though, and hopefully he won’t need it.
As long as the chest infection clears up, he’ll be in hospital for
another two days or so while his bowel recovers, and then we can start
feeding him again (he’s on IV right now), and bring him home.
More news as it comes in.
Rowan and Jacob are back from the hospital now, which is great. It was
very odd having to go in and visit them every day.
I have experienced my first baby-induced sleepless night. I expect to
have many of these. Rowan is taking the late shift from midnight to 5am,
and then I’m getting up and taking him downstairs so she can get some
sleep.
He’s feeding better (early babies don’t feed too well, and you have to
really persuade them). He’s even started crying for his bottle, which is
very good. Of course, now he’s got all sorts of reasons to cry: hungry,
too cold, too hot, wet, covered in poo, want a cuddle, want a burp, and I’m
sure there’s more. We’re in the process of distinguishing one from the
other, so we don’t have to try everything every time.
The “I’m covered in poo” cry is quite distinctive, I think because it
gets even worse when you pick him up. We have to change him ASAP, since
the cleaning is easier. Amazing how many nappies they go through - he’s
doing 10 or 15 a day.
The cats have been fascinated. Lots of coming up and sniffing. They’ve
not been able to work out his place in their world-view yet. Initially
they were wondering if he was prey, but they’ve decided against that. I
think they know he’s not competition (he doesn’t eat cat food or bask on
the shed), so I expect they to decide to ignore him soon. We’ve got a cat
net for the crib, in case they decide he is a special moggie
hot-water-bottle.
Our son, Jacob David Winter, was born at 2.30am on the 21st
May. Mother and baby are both well and will hopefully be home soon. He
was 3 weeks early, and weighed 5lbs 1oz (2.3kg), which is a little
underweight. He’s fine though, and should catch up quickly.
Being a dad is great, by the way :). There are some photos of him in
the gallery.
I was quite impressed by the third definition Google provides for
Zaibatsu:
href="http://www.google.com/search?q=define:zaibatsu">define:zaibatsu.
They seem to be well ahead of the game.
It’s been part of Rowan’s family legends that they had a relative on the
Titanic, although they didn’t know who it was. Well, through a few
relatives they have discovered that it was a woman called Clear Annie
Cameron.
The interweb being what it is, as soon as you’ve got a decent search
term, you can find out almost
href="http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/bio/p/2nd/cameron_c.shtml">Everything
.
There’s some stuff missing from there though - she must have returned to
England after this, because it was subsequently she married by
great-great-uncle-in-law.
We had the 23 week scan for our unborn child a few days ago. All well,
thanks for asking. Here’s a
href="/miniwinjer/23weeks-small.jpg">Picture.
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