We took Erel to Thomas Land yesterday, he was in paradise! The rides were great, a lot of fairly standard stuff, but designed with excellent use of the Thomas characters. Cranky the crane dominates the park, and the Troublesome Trucks rollercoaster lived up to their name.

The highlight of the park is the train ride. Thomas and Percy run between Knapford Station and Tidmouth Hault, running through the woods and a zoo to get there. At each end they're uncoupled from the passenger cars, pull onto a turntable to turn around, then couple up to the other end of the train to pull it out again. Pretty authentic, and well worth it for Thomas-obsessed little kids.

A month or two ago we took Erel to Battersea Zoo, where (predictably) his favorite animals were the squirrel-monkeys. A few weeks later, he started insisting that there are monkeys in our local park. As we stroll through the park, he points up into certain trees an announces "monkey!" At home, he points out the window towards the park and declares "monkey!"

I humored him, agreeing that it's possible there are monkeys running loose in the park, and kept my reservations to myself. The concept has a certain appeal.

The question was settled last week when I was pushing him throught the park in a stroller. He pointed and shouted "monkey!" yet again, and I saw he was pointing at a squirrel.

I haven't been able to disabuse him of his belief that squirrels are a type of monkey. I'm not completely sure I want to.

I've uploaded a few recent pictures of Erel, mostly with him swimming. If you want a page to go to see all of Erel's pictures on Flickr, they are here.

Yeni Ereli fotograflar! Hepsi Erel fotagraflar burada.

The very latest pics of the Erelmania 2006 tour.

It's been a while, and we've had lots of demand from the family, so we've uploaded a new bunch of pictures to flickr. These are mostly taken in the past week or so, and include a trip to the park with Jonathan, Hacer, Uzay, Evrim, Olcay, and Edita. Uzay and Evrim really love their little buddy!

I've started uploading new pictures of Erel to Flickr. You can see them by clicking on that link, they are tagged with "erel". There are also lots of nifty tools you can use with Flickr, for instance I've put a feed of pictures on the side of this site.

Introducing Erel Solon Morris. Born 1:15 AM 16 May 2006, 3.51 kg, 52 cm, in London. It's a boy!

These are the raw pictures from my phone, no doubt more will follow!

I gave some wrong data in the email I sent out, and originally in this post. Erel is 3.51 kilos, not 4.51, and he was 52 cm long at birth, not 36 cm (which was his head circumference).

I won't be sending out more emails generally, instead I will post pictures and information on this website, so those who are interested can check back when they like.