Updated 17th NOV '03
Last update: 18th December 2003
This is Finnbar Sparey-Taylor's website and diary.
DATE: 18-December-2003
Just a quick pre-Christmas update. My first Tots and Mums party was postponed until the new year. The next one was good. I got to wear a Father Christmas outfit. We played Pass the Parcel and we did some singing. I got to play lots of musical instruments. I got given a book. There was lots of nice food to eat too.
I was in my first Christmas play at the weekend. Steven was a sheep. I was a shepherd. Mummy made us both costumes. I say Baa Baa Black Sheep when I see Steven's sheep hat, although Mummy says that I don't get all the words quite right.
We have an advent calendar that is really good. We take it in turns to take a person or animal and make up a nativity picture. Sometimes we get a message too that we can have an extra mince pie or treat. We read lots of books about Christmas too. I like the Farmyard Christmas book and the Angel book. We listen to Christmas songs too.
Mummy and me make lots of mince pies but I don't like mincepies. Daddy likes them lots.
I have started going swimming. It is good fun. I am practising putting my head under the water. When Mummy puts her head under the water she can blow bubbles. I just manage to drink the water. I have big arm bands. I like them lots and wear them around the house too. When I wear my arm bands Mummy doesn't have to hold me in the water.
DATE: 23-November-2003
Sorry it took so long to get the photos out, Mummy and me haven't been feeling too well. First I hurt my nose, then I got a bad cold. But don't worry I am nearly better now.
DATE: 18-November-2003
Life has been too hectic again the last few months for anybody to help me on my web page. Big people get far too involved in what they are doing. Daddy has written a big book. Now that it is finished he said that he will make me a go-cart with a real engine in. I have been to Ireland to meet my cousins. My cousin Toby is good at golf, he is nearly 2. We stayed with Granny Sue in a house in the middle of nowhere. We had to go to a well to get water. We went there in the van. Daddy put an extra seat in so that we all fit. We went on a big boat. On the way there we had beds on the boat. On the way back I got to go and play. There were lots of films to watch, and soft play and lego and cars you could pretend to drive. We went outside to look at the water too.
Uncle Richy and Aunty Hevver came to stay. We went to jump in the puddles. I got new wellington boots. I had to get new shoes too, because I am now a 4 and a 1/2. I have also seen Granny and Grandad Delacassa and Uncle Charles and Aunty Naomi too.
I am getting very good at painting. We go to Tots and Mums on a Wednesday afternoon where there is always lots of painting and sticking to do. Mummy puts my paintings on the wall and I have a folder to keep them in too. We do lots of different types of painting with sponges or apples and oranges or brushes. The best though is to use your fingers. I get to stick lots of shiny things onto paper and cardboard boxes.
I got to see Concorde. It flew over my head when it landed at Cardiff, but the camera didn't work so we didn't get any photos.
I hope to be able to put my photos on the site tomorrow - they are nearly ready but it is past my bedtime already.
DATE: 23-September-2003
Another month has gone by and finally Mummy has found time to help me put fingers to keys again, this time with the addition of lots of photos to keep you all going. I have done soooo many things I expect that I will forget some of them, but here goes anyway...
I went to the Vale Show. There were lots of horses and bow wows. Some of the bow wows had the same colour hair as me. Some of the horses had to do jumps. I won a bow wow at the fair. I also got a red shiny bag that I fished at the fair. I got given my own pen by a man from the army because I liked his big gun, I thought that it was a climbing frame. I found some tractors that I was allowed to drive. I saw a baby mmm too, Mummy says it was called a calf.
We went to a open day at a big school. We found an assault course to do. Steven beat everybody but my legs aren't as big as his. Daddy, Mummy and Steven did archery but I wasn't big enough. I got to go in the sea though.
We went to a big park it had a fairy tale land there. There is a castle there that is the right size for me and too small for Mummy. There are lots of animals too. I fed a horse and made friends with a donkey. There were lots of deer. I got to climb in the adventure playground. I have got a new car and a new tractor to ride on. Daddy got a new van so that we can take my car about in it (and Daddy and Steven's bikes).
Me at 12months, including my birthday
DATE: 13-AUGUST-2003
Wow, where does the time go? It certainly flies when you are having fun. I can't believe that I haven't written for nearly 2 months. So much has happened since I last wrote. Firstly I had my birthday. I am now more than a whole year old. I had a really good birthday. On the day before my friend Joel came. He brought me a present of some stacking blocks. On my birthday my Granny and Grandad and Aunty Nim came. Morgan and his Mum came in the afternoon. Then my favourite girls from next door came. I got lots of presents. My favourites were a trumpet, a spade and a big car full of balls. The car was soooo big that now it lives in the garden and is full of water for me to play in. I got a birthday cake that was a monkey.
A couple of days after my birthday my big half brother Steven came to live with us. I got moved out from the small bedroom and back into the big bedroom. I get to share my bedroom now when people come to stay.
I went with Mummy and Steven to stay at Granny and Grandad's house in Devon. I went to a farm where I got to see lots of baby Mmmms [note from Mummy - Moo Cows]. Then we went to see lots of bow wows and I got to ride one [note from Mummy - Minature Ponies]. While we were there I got to stroke some goats. I also saw some pigs but they got cross when I got too close. I went on some slides and sat on a tractor. We went to see lots of tractors the next day too. I got very good at climbing up their big wheels. I got to see lots of animals too. There was a llama and some alpacas. I liked the donkey. There was a man doing jumps on a motorbike. I got to stroke some fox hounds. [Note from Mummy - Holsworthy agricultural show].
My Granny Sue came to stay with us. She took me for lots of walks.
Last week Mummy was working hard at a kids club at the church. I got to go with Joel, Francis, Joel's Mummy and Eunice to lots of different places. We went to a farm, a lighthouse and the beach.
My last photos before I am one year oldEverything from when I was less than a year old
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