Kendal's Party ...

You may remember that I intended holding a 'welcome to the world' party for Kendal, a couple of weeks after he was born. Well, given that he was back in hospital three times, and I was pretty ill m'self, it never happened.

I rectified that today. It wasn't quite the party I originally intended, with all of our friends and family there - more of a 'Ladies who Brunch' kind of affair, with a lot of ladies from the in-law's church.

I thought about doing a 'Kitsch 70's style' party, with prawn cocktail, fondue, trifle and black forest gateaue, but thought that the irony might have been lost, so I just went for 'Kitsch' in a general way.



Lovely chocolate cake from Asda, I have some left and am going to eat it later for my supper.



The food - before the guests descended on it, and before Jasper jumped up and pulled the remainder of the sandwiches onto the floor.



Cute/Kitsh cocktail sticks with the ubiquitous suasages, pickled onions and cheese.

It was nice. And I don't mean that in a bland way - I enjoyed it.

Kendal has come on so much - he's getting stronger and stronger every day, and has already said two words.

Not 'mummy' or 'daddy' but 'book' and 'music'. Strange child.

He has doubled his food intake during the last week - while 'im indoors has been in Australia. He has a huge bowl of Baby Rice and banana for his breakfast - then pureed veg followed by pureed fruit for lunch and dinner, and a couple of rice cakes throughout the day as 'snacks'. He's also been very generous and dropped his night feed - the night before 'im indoors went off on his travels. Little cracker.

Couple of photos for your perusal (taken with m'phone, as 'im indoors has m'camera).



Kendal at 11 days old, when in hospital with a kidney infection - the lovely cup on his head is to protect the canular that had been inserted, to drip feed him antibiotics. The doctor said that all we needed was a little red velvet waist-coat, and we could make a fortune on the pier, with tourists getting their photos taken. Nice.



Kendal today - about to tuck into his second rice cake of the day.