18 days old already!

Hello grown ups, I am 18 days old already and it's been a very exciting life so far! I have already had four or five trips to the shopping mall and tried out two different parents' feeding rooms, plus I got mummy and daddy to take me to the park. Daddy was very giddy about the spider's web climbing frame and the jazzy swings - I'm not sure, but I think he really wants to play on them himself, which is okay by me because I prefer to sleep at the park and just be pushed around in my chariot.


I have had heaps of visitors, and lots of ladies keep holding me and cooing at me - they're a funny lot! Auntie Raewyn was the first ever visitor I had, at the hospital, then Auntie Rach came, then Trudes, Jo, Bronwyn, Girzy, and Jude - and all of them gave me huge hugs and lots more lovely presents. I heard mummy saying that I am being spoiled, but she said it with a grin so I don't think she minds much. Auntie Rach has been a few times now, and she even brought Harry and Ian to see me as well, which was nice. Oooh and I went over to see Uncle Brandon and he liked me cos I slept the whole time I was there. I am so well behaved.



As well as visitors, I've had millions of emails and texts and cards from people all over the world, not to mention beautiful flowers and even more wonderful presents, which is VERY exciting indeed. Daddy has hung all the cards up on the wall and said it looks like Christmas, but I'm not sure what that is yet. Mummy is going to print off all the emails and type out all the texts so I can read them when I am a grown up like her.

In keeping with my status a a techno wizard child prodigy, I have already had a couple of Skype sessions and met my public in Wanaka and Newbury over the web cam. Grown ups seem to get very excited when they see me on the camera - funny lot these big humans.

Auntie Glenda, my midwife, came to see me again yesterday and said I am not putting enough weight on and have to eat more. Mummy and daddy said it is most unusual for a Khan or a Blackbourn to have that kind of trouble with food and that I'd best start putting my back into it pronto before we get a bad reputation, so they took me to the osteopath and now I can move my head better and suck better, so I think that might help me get a good feed.

I am worn out from lots of learning. I could lift my head from the day I was born, and could suck my thumb from about 10 days old - how clever is that? Before you know it I'll be programing my first computer.

I like music a lot. We play the Foo Fighters and Def Leopard quite a bit, and I like the Eagles and the Doobie Brothers, plus Chairman of the Board (which mummy says reminds her of Auntie Irene). I also have my very own play lists of the music system with lots of classical stuff on it, which is nice for resting to and seems to calm mummy and daddy down when I do my really loud "I have wind" screaming for them. My very favourite music in the whole wide world, though, comes from Uncle Steve and from Auntie Jean, Uncle Mick, Ellie and Abby: Uncle Steve wrote me my very own track to celebrate my birth, and it is fabulous. I know he only does that for very special occasions so I feel very lucky indeed. And then Auntie Jean and co sent me a CD full of songs with my name in them!!! Mummy loves to sing "Monty Wake Up it's the Morning" to me, and Daddy likes "Rumble in the Jungle", which as giraffes and tigers in it. Yay.

I have to dash now cos I have a busy schedule today, with lots of sleeping, looking around, pooping and eating planned, not to mention growing my foxy ear hair! It's a hard life but someone has to live it.

Big Monty Moo Moo kisses to everyone xxxxx