Banned? Aw, come on...

Chrome (yes, I'm still using it, more on this at a later stage) has found a new friend:

This gets my vote for "least friendliest error message of the year". The site is FishingFan - I'm not sure how or why I stumbled there, but I think I'm glad I'm banned...

A "Don't F**k With Me" look on his face

I've just spent the past 25 minutes walking the floor of my in-law's spare bedroom with an 8 kilo bag of demons clutched tightly against my chest. 

Fionn has had an eventful day, travelling West, home for the holidays, and his regular sleep pattern has been disturbed. You just try and put me to bed Dad. Hands-on at the best of times, this evening's nap has quickly escalated into a battle of wills. Enraged with tiredness and a deep sense of injustice, my only tactic is to hold him close, using shush-pat and soothing words to try and get him to relax enough for sleep to take over.

As I pace, sweating, back and neck beginning to spasm, I think back on all the times I've been driven close to the edge by him - all the times he refused to sleep, refused to stop crying, all the times I came close to giving voice to every parent's dark secret: sometimes, just sometimes, you could almost convince yourself that you hate your child, that you are the victim here, that they are being so unreasonable...

I keep pacing, and before too long he let's go and drifts off. It's the very least I owe him. Goodnight Fionn.

Shout out to my crew

A big Christmas hello to the eBU - you know who you are....

And I wish it could be Christmas...

At the IIA Social Media WG on Friday, listening to Roseanne talk about her blog reminded me that the reason I got involved in this in the first place was to post about the young fella. So here's the update: he's 90% sitting by himself, his favourite noise is coughing (himself or other people), he likes butternut squash and porridge (not at the same time...yet), dislikes baby rice, and he cut his first tooth today.

Some pictures of the tyke getting into the Christmas spirit follow:

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Our tree, which Fionn didn't so much as lift a finger to help decorate...

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