David and Katherine Goodwin

Meg update (for initial pictures, see here).

In no particular order, here's what we've found so far.

• Rowan really likes her, and she's very good (so far) with his poking/pulling of her nose, eyes, fur etc
• She wees when excited/scared/$insert_emotion here
• She is destructive - but only at night - she has already chewed chopsticks, my ipod, a sling, Rowan's soft toys and more
• She can jump very well

On Saturday (yesterday), we visited Birmingham Dog's Home. They had so many dogs there - a number of who could probably have been a good fit for us. Thankfully they also weren't stupid and anal about not providing dogs to people with children less than 5 years old and suchlike like other places are/were.

As all the stuff I seem to want to write about these days really doesn't fit with the style of this site, so I've got a new blog for all my mummy thoughts.

If you're interested in those things, read Muddling Through Motherhood. It's still a work in progress, needs some static pages and a proper design, but I'm working on it.

Hopefully nothing else is going to die on me this week, but yesterday my bicycle suffered a fatal injury. I knew the frame was cracked in one place, and was about to take it to A&E (bike shop) but it beat me to it.

See : here for the gory pictures

When I did take it to the bike shop this morning, I discovered it had another crack in the seat stem... so in total - 3 defects on one frame. Nice.

I've tried out Firefox 3 again (it's now in beta4), mostly prompted by this article (and linked to blog posting by a FF dev.). The even better news is that Firebug 1.1 works with FF3, which means I can make the switch at work.

I like the UI changes; password storing etc is better (one less popup window) and it certainly seems quicker on my computer (is FF3 honouring expires headers when FF2 didn't?)... so it seems to be all good.

Today, I hit 29. This is nearly old (30).

To celebrate, I ran for 11 miles, ate a large bar of Galaxy chocolate (well nearly) and had chilli for tea.

Present wise: Frisbee, Ordnance survey map, Inflatable football set, air powered rocket thing, bottle opener, Metroid 3 (for the Wii), another Wii game when I decide what and money. Oddly I seemed to have more presents this year than last. I'm not sure why - I thought the quantity and quality of birthday (and Xmas) presents was inversely proportional to age.

David and I had planned, once we were settled in with the whole baby thing, that we'd start using reusable nappies. We try to recycle and not to use plastic bags and suchlike, so this is a pretty obvious thing for us to be doing. Joe and Hannah had given us some 'prefold' style nappies but we hadn't gotten around to trying them (they seemed a bit too much hassle for me).

Having realised how crazily quickly Rowan is growing up, I've got my heart set on a video camera to record some of the memories we'll otherwise lose. However, I'll never convince David to let me have one unless he's sure we're getting the right one, so, we need some help and recommendations. I guess we're looking for something fairly small with a decent battery life, but don't know what else we're looking for...

Help anyone?

We were warned (repeatedly and by everyone) that the first few weeks with Rowan would be really difficult. It seems they were right, some nights at least. Rowan is sleeping unreliably to say the least - but at this stage its to be expected. His current trick is to feed intermittently for hours and hours - the midwife says this is apparently quite normal (about 8 last night, 4 the night before). The night before last was actually good because he then proceeded to sleep for nearly 4 hours in one go.

Hello world.

First off - something to laugh at - The Dos and Don't with Babies (thanks Elleo).

Secondly - Rowan is now feeding very well, but perhaps too well - as he seems to like the idea of feeding almost every hour for 5-10 minutes. At the moment we're taking the view that he can eat as often as he likes, as long as he puts on weight and catches up for the first 36 hours where he wasn't keen on feeding at all.