Freddie celebrates his 2nd birthday. Max and Stanley present the cake. It’s an emotional moment. Will he/won’t he blow out the candles? The party goers watch with bated breath…
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Freddie’s Birthday Party - 6th Feb 2010
Sad news
Last month brought sad news. We posted the following message out to friends and family:
Dear friends,
I just want to give you some unexpected news…
Re: the pregnancy, sadly we’ve run into complications.
We had the 20 week scan yesterday (8th Dec) and alarm bells were raised re: spina bifida. After a pretty horrendous 24 hours of waiting […]
PREGNANT AGAIN!
We’re expanding! Me, literally.
I’m eating like a horse and loving it. Pau is cooking D E L I C I O U S N E S S - “all for you my love” Remembering the process is exciting… daunting… lovely… and here we are again, due to meet our little one end of April 2010. […]
Summer holiday 09 - Barcelona and beyond
This summer - A three week extravaganza of visits to Pau’s family and friends during a super hot August. Based in Barcelona, we experienced everything from mindless humidity in the city to breezy trips up country. We piled in a rented car and took ourselves off for adventure, visiting Xavi in Calella de Parafugell, Oriol […]
Freddie’s first birthday.
Frederic Gaston Ros Thornton would like to extend his cordial invitation
to his first birthday party on Saturday, the seventh of February 2009…
post Christmas, Christmas post
Christmas was great albeit C O L D ! We were all four together. My parents and grandmother interrupted (erp, joined in) on Boxing day and Pau spoilt us all with courses after courses of traditional Catalan home cooking … This was followed (naturally) by the most remarkable of puddings, dare I go as far […]
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“Ooo!… rla-ba… da-d”
At ten months Freddie is:
Talking “rla-rla-rla-rla” with turbine tongue action! Teething but not yet showing any teeth. Crawling, from reverse to now 5th gear! Propping himself up on the bongos. Waving & clapping (just about). Copying us and raising both hands above his head in happiness - Bien! (Or super hero style - […]