Posts tagged Oscar
The Gallery – Something I Am Proud Of
20This post is this weeks entry for The Gallery over at Sticky Fingers
The prompt this week is Something I Am Proud Of.
OK so I admit I’m going to be extremely predictable here and I imagine there will be quite a lot of very similar posts like this but if I have to say the things that I am proudest of then of course it is the two tiny terrors – Oscar and Zara. I still can’t believe that somehow I’ve managed to achieve such perfection and I feel like pinching myself.

How can I not be proud of these two?
This photo will be featuring on the Brown family christmas cards this year
My Beautiful Children
6Bear with me but this is a show off post as I’ve just had our first nursery photos back and I couldn’t resist sharing my beautiful children with you
Aren’t they gorgeous
It’s that time of year again…
10Since having children, last year we started a tradition in the Brown household by making our own photo christmas cards. The image we used on last years card was this one taken on Zara’s first birthday

Christmas 2010
We don’t send these to everyone but we send around 20 to close friends and family. With us living so far away from them we think it is a nice way of letting them see how our children are growing and something to keep
So this weekend we attempted to take photos for this years card. As you’re no doubt away we have an extra face to put on the card this year and so we have recycled last years snowman outfit and bought Zara a new one. Trying to get a 9 month old and 23 month old to sit still and pose for a photo proved rather difficult and I’m not sure I’ve got a good enough one for the actual cards yet but I thought I’d share some images from our photo session anyway as they are rather cute
Oscar at 5 Months!
3Has it really been 5 months since Oscar arrived? I can’t believe how fast it has flown by!
This last month I think I’m starting to see a lot of developments with Oscar, until recently he really has been pretty boring bless him and I was getting a little concerned that he didn’t really seem to be developing. I know he was 6 weeks early but I still can’t help comparing him to his sister who first rolled over at 4 months and 1 day old (Yes I know I’m going to be a nightmare when they get older lol).
Anyway at 5 months I can now say:
1. Oscar weighs 18lbs! Now if you go by his corrected age this puts him on the 95th percentile for a baby born 6 weeks early, if I ignore the fact he was early he is still on the 75th percentile so he has pretty much overtaken most babies born 6 weeks later than him
Despite all that sick, something obviously seems to be working
2. Oscar rolled over for the first time about 2 weeks ago (so not too far behind his sister at all
), this took me by surprise to be honest as I really wasn’t expecting it – but I did manage to catch it on video amazingly
3. Oscar has finally learnt to BURP! Probably a strange achievement in most people’s eyes but I haven’t been able to wind him after any bottle before now as he would just bring up the entire bottle rather than burp. Now he can burp without actually being sick!
4. Oscar now sleeps, and when I say sleep I mean it, I put him down to bed at around 7:30-8pm and that’s it (most nights) until 8am in the morning. When both O&Z sleep through (again which is most nights now!) I actually feel like a human being again.
It’s been a very long 5 months but I finally think we are getting somewhere
I can’t wait to see what the next month brings


















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