Project Monkey

Category: Elliott

  • Elliot’s First Birthday

    9th February 2013 Elliott, the littlest Keating, was a whole year old on Saturday finally passing the stage from baby into Toddler, though who can say when that exact point is anyway. As usual we had a family and friends party at Chez Keating in Lancaster with a large number of people turning up and…

  • Beautiful Brockhole

    Saturday 2nd February Today we went for a drive to the Lake District once more. It was predicted to be a clear, if crisp, day and the first day that Leigh has felt well enough to walk a little since being in hospital with pneumonia. Fearing that if we went too far she would get…

  • Techno stop morion

    We have been playing with stop motion, mostly Dad and Ben but early tests seem to indicate that silliness will ensue in years to come. Following is mash up number one all done with an iPhone. Your browser does not support the video tag

  • Blackpool 3rd January

    The kids had a massive break over Christmas but Leigh and I had to continue working so we shared the duties of looking after the children between us with the always grateful help of Grandma Linda. On the Thursday I decided to take them both to Blackpool so we could go into the Aquarium and…

  • Elliott’s First Shoes

    31st January Today Elliott and Daddy went to the shoe shop to have Elliott measured for his first shoes. As usual Markie had quite a lot of opinions on how they should look and feel. because they were first shows, predominantly for crawling to first steps, they needed to be from a select range. The…

  • Naming the Beast

    There was a short list, and a very short list it was, for Elliott’s name. We had a much longer list with Ben, but he did steal two of the names from that list that were our favourites with Benjamin and Connor. So with Elliott we kept the list short, using one or two from…