a week

Well that is a week gone very quickly indeed. Alex has settled in well. Whereas most babies drop some weight in the days after birth she has put weight on. Not surprising as she seems to be drinking Sal dry. She is a feeding machine. The night shift is taking a bit of a toll on Sal...up to three hours at night. It would be better for mum if mum would rest more during the day. Hey, they are both learning at the moment.

Now this will come and kick m in the arse before to long...but so far it has been fairly plain sailing for me. Sure I've been far busier than I am otherwise, but the whole playing-nappy-burping-dressing stuff is easy enough and looking after Sal's needs is only a struggle in as much as she is bonkers. I've even don some cooking, finished painting a fence and managed to get three runs completed. The dogs have been walked each day too; well apart from today because we were away last night after signin a sale contract for a house we're selling. I've also managed to keep up with most of my work emails; hypocrit that I am, having hammered my boss for doing the very same thing when his second kid was hatched.

Today AJ pissed all over my t-shirt and board shorts. Not entirely unexpeted; she's pissed over me a few others times while I've been changing a nappy. On the subject of the nappy contents...what happens in a baby that makes breast milk in look like pesto out? Weird.

Yesterday, as well as visiting the in-laws, we visited Louise and Jason and their 1yr old Ella. Fairly typical show-and-tell visit, all very pleasant. Both Louise and Jason said they thought AJ looked more like me than Sal, in profile at least. Possibly because she frowns a lot. She also has a great set of lungs that she uses infrequently but to good effect. The car is a magical instrument - turns the noise off straight away.

Right gotta go, time for me to burp her...