The Hand Drawn Creative Blog

Jules et Jack

Exciting times again at Hand Drawn Creative as my son Jack was born on 29 June at 10.58am. He's a whopping 9lbs 1oz and I'm pleased to say my wife Jules has a made a speedy recovery over the last few days and is settling into motherhood once more, whilst our beautiful toddler Melissa runs rings round us both as we change the nappies! 

 

Let's see how Junior is progressing…

…blimey, coming on a bit don't you think! Jules & I attended the 20 week scan yesterday and were blown away at the difference from our last scan we attended. You could see all manner of stuff going on in there – an astounding experience all round I'd say and from a dad's point of view it really brings home the reality of impending parenthood. Again, yummy mummy is completely hyper-excited and glowing more and more each day.

Live from Fundonald

Okay, it's Friday, it's very early in the morning and it's at that stage of the pregnancy where it's time to race up to the hospital worrying about anything that could possibly go wrong. Luckily all appears to well with our glamourous mum to be and the upshot of hanging around hospital waiting rooms is we get to have another scan of the little peanut in her tum- tum! We had the first scan 2 weeks ago and it was literally the size of a peanut, but as you can see from the scans, it's a lot bigger now and needs a more appropriate nickname! So what do you think? There'll be a crisp fiver* winging it's way to person who comes up with the best foetal nickname. Submit your comments in the field below! *we're actually a bit skint this month, would a drawing of a five pound note be okay?

One in the Oven…

Well, after what seems like a lifetime, Julie and myself can officially announce that she's knocked up... real bad! We've just come out from the first scan and I can report that the yummy mummy to be is positively glowing and the dad to be is as confused as ever about the wonderful journey that is pregnancy.

We discovered that we were expecting on the eve of my 35th birthday, just as the Red Arrows were flying past our window. An event neither of us are likely to forget!

So there we go, freelancer and now father to be – who'd have thought I had it in me!