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Isaac’s First Day In Nursery
Posted by: Simon Wood in Lifestyle on June 16th, 2009
Yesterday was Isaac’s first full day in Nursery. It all went OK, he slept both in he morning and evening. He also ate a lot of his food, especially his pudding! He seamed good when we picked him up too.
The nursery we have picked is Bridge House, which is attached to Ashford School. I am sure we have made the right choice in nursery and Faye seams to be enjoying the challenges of being back at work.
I am always saying I will post more pictures, but I will! I will do another post soon with some 9 month pictures of Isaac and some picture of our day out to Hever Castle which we visited on my Birthday. Thanks all for my Birthday cards and presents 
Valentines weekend with the Valentines
Posted by: Simon Wood in Photos on February 19th, 2009
Valentines weekend had a family gathering at Martin and Roz’s house in Colchester. Lots of people there, nice to all meet up as we didn’t have a big gathering at Christmas. Managed to gets some Photos of Isaac with various family members and also managed to get some good group photos.
Isaac was five months old also this weekend. He now weighs 16lb10 and is doing really well. He has started swimming which he seams to like and has also started rolling over. He will be mobile in no time
Some Thoughts and a Web Update
Posted by: Simon Wood in Computing on January 29th, 2009
I have been thinking again recently that I really need to overhaul this site as it is looking old again. I have also been thinking that I have never really found the right balance with my blog, I can’t decide if I should blog about technical and web bits like a mate of mine Phil or if I should just post about personal events. I’m guessing I should probably blog about both. Also recently I have been getting into twitter as a way to post short updates between blog posts. One thing I would like to add to this site is a lifestream that pulls data from my various online accounts and displays it here as an aggregated feed. Yongfook does this on his site and does it very well. Then I got thinking with my increased presence on other sites like twitter, last.fm and linkedin etc I link all these sites back to hpoom but I do not have a decent about me page on hpoom. So another thing to add to the to-do list a proper about me page.
The other thing I am contemplating at the moment is if I know enough about web technologies to do extra work outside of my job at Holiday Extras. The kind of work I am thinking about is speaking about web technologies and solutions or consulting my knowledge in these areas to anybody that would like to pay me for my knowledge. I think now with over 9 years of Web Development experience that I do know enough to consult in these areas. Anyway I have written about it here now so that might spur me on to look into this more.
OK one last thing to balance all the tech talk above. Isaac is still doing really well. Being a Dad is great especially when you get in from work and Isaac gives me a big smile. I will post an Isaac update soon with some more pictures.
Isaac Russell Wood – 3 Months doing hand and foot prints
Posted by: Simon Wood in Lifestyle on December 23rd, 2008
At the weekend we attempted to get hand and foot prints from Isaac to go into his red record book. We had mixed results but they look OK. Isaac is doing very well still growing and smiling a lot. Only 2 days now until his first Christmas, how exciting!
Here is the video of the hand a foot prints.
It has only taken 3 months but now Isaac is on youTube
Isaac Russell Wood – Weeks 3 to 9 – More Photos
Posted by: Simon Wood in Lifestyle on November 17th, 2008
OK so I have not been as good as I was hoping I would be at posting photos of Isaac. Finally here are some more photos of the little man. These are all from week three to week nine.
Both Faye and I are starting to get the hang of this parenting lark. Isaac is doing really well he is 13lb1 now and growing well. In the last week he has started getting very vocal and the week before he started smiling.
Thank you all again for the lovely clothes you have given Isaac, he likes them all. More photos soon… Hopefully
Baby boy is here – Isaac Russell Wood – Week One
Posted by: Simon Wood in Lifestyle on September 22nd, 2008
So it has happened. Faye gave birth to a lovely baby boy on Monday 15th September 2008 at 10:31pm. He weighed 8lb9 and we have named him Isaac Russell Wood.
The first week has been busy and tiring, but Isaac and Faye are both well. Here are some photos for you all, as lots of people have been asking me for some. I will try to give regular updates here so you can all see how he is progressing.
Thanks for all the cards and messages.
Baby due today, but no news yet…
Posted by: Simon Wood in Lifestyle on September 11th, 2008
As most of you know Faye my wife is expecting our first born today. For those that didn’t know, you know now. We have our car seat now, a nice Maxi-Cosi Cabriofix in Trail colour. Tonight we should get our pushchair, a Phil & Teds Sport in Apple Green. Also we have our nice fluffy Bamboo reusable nappies, which are cool.
With the help of my Dad we now have a wardrobe in the nursery. I just need to finish decorating now, I will get round to it eventually.
Anyway just thought I would post to say no news yet but once there is some news or pictures I will post them here for all to see.
Thanks for all the thoughts and wishes!
Our amazing holiday in Peru
Posted by: Simon Wood in Photos on November 28th, 2007
In the first 2 weeks of October this year Faye and I fulfilled a long time ambition and visited Peru. I have been meaning to post the pictures of out holiday since we got back. Finally I have found the time to do so. Here is a small selection of some of the 466 photos I took while we were out there. I have only uploaded a few for now but I will add some more in time. Peru is an amazing country and one that everybody should experience!
My photos from the Kent County Show
Posted by: Simon Wood in Photos on August 27th, 2007
On Sunday 12th August I visited the Kent County Show. This year I took my new camera with me so that I could learn a bit more about how to use all the settings. Here are some of the pictures I took, I really like the photos of the Alpacas.
Site has a new design
Posted by: Simon Wood in Computing on July 3rd, 2007
I have now uploaded my new site design. The site was starting to look dated so I have redesigned it. It now not only looks better but should be easier to navigate. I have not added any new features yet, but the new design should make it easier for me to add new features to the site in the future, so keep you eyes peeled. The big changes are variable width site based on browser size, and images appear in a lightbox now instead of a new page.
Please leave comments and feedback on the new site design as I would love to hear what people think!