Aaron's Blog

Aaron had his first year jabs on 28th May.  He didn’t like it at all and was fighting through the second jab that had to be done.  He had a couple of small bruises come up afterwards and was quite whiney for the rest of the day, especially if you tried to go near his jabs area.  He was still a brave boy though!

The nurse said that any symptoms from the jabs may appear up to a week after, and he unfortunately ended up with a bad case of conjunctivitis which had to be treated with eye drops.  It may not have had anything to do with the jabs as the jabs had nothing to do with conjunctivitis, but they may have helped him pick it up through his system working against the jabs.  It has taken a good 2-3 weeks for it to fully go, with Ben having it slightly as well at one point, but it looks to have finally gone.

We are very glad there is a long time until he is due more jabs!

Here are some various photographs of Aaron et al from January to June 2012 –

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This is video of Aaron on the beach for the first time whilst we were in Weymouth on Sunday 25th March.

Here is a video of Aaron’s first time on a swing on 14th February.

Aaron walked for the first time on Sunday 13th May. Here is a video of it –

A few weeks ago Aaron had his first birthday!  We can’t believe that he is now well over a year old as the time has just flown by!

For his first birthday I took the day off work so that we could celebrate properly.  We got up early as possible with all of Aaron’s presents being out ready for him and downstairs decorated with 1st birthday banners and balloons.  He wasn’t quite sure what to make of it all when he saw the presents, but he still went right over to have a look.  So we cracked on and started opening his presents with Aaron helping as much as he could although he was finding it difficult as he didn’t have the strength to break into most of the presents.  He had a wide range of goodies including a Bob The Builder talking phone set, clothes and a 3-in-1 Trike which was his main present (pics below).   He seemed to enjoy everything and had good play with it all.

Later on in the morning, we went to Jump (which is what we did for Ben’s 1st birthday as well).  He loved it there and was playing around in the smaller childrens’ area as well as the more grown up area where Ben mostly stayed.  We stayed and had some food as well, so Aaron was quite a mess after that!  The boys had more of a play around after and a dance with the staff during a dancing session to children’s songs.  They both loved it there and Aaron was completely worn out afterwards! (All of us were actually!)  In total, we were there for near enough 4 hours and we all enjoyed it.

We had three other celebrations of his birthday the Saturday before, the Saturday after (which was the day after his birthday – FA Cup Final day!) and the Saturday after that, with several family members visiting for some party food and a chat, and a BBQ on the final Saturday with Gramps.  Everyone had a good time on all occasions, although on the second Saturday myself and Kelly started to get ill (we both ended up with Tonsilitis) which wasn’t ideal.

Aaron had lots of nice presents and cards from numerous people so thank you to everyone that gave him something for his 1st birthday!  Some of his presents included a Combine Harvester, Peppa Pig Pillow and Duvet set, toy for the bath, wooden jigsaw, bowl and plates, a wooden book and more clothes.

Here is a selection of photographs from his 1st birthday celebrations –

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