A Week Of Firsts

Since coming home from the hospital on Sunday we've had a very nice week with family popping in to say hi and lots of 'firsts' for Toby. My parents, who came on the day he was born, headed back home yesterday, but fortunately Auntie Jane arrived to help out.

On Tuesday evening we all participated in Toby's first bath. It certainly wasn't as bad as Beth's first bath but was rather slap-dash. Beth's first was like a farce and I'm sure social services would have paid us a visit if they had witnessed it! Toby's was in the kitchen sink and amazingly he didn't seem to mind it too much. It did seem to calm him down and sent him off to sleep once it was over.

One of the other firsts was going to play group in the village on Thursday. I decided that Beth needed a bit of interaction with other children her age as we hadn't been to playgroup for a while. We walked to the village hall where it is held and Auntie Jane came too - also her first experience of a play group. I'm not sure that Toby really gained anything from this first since he slept the entire time we were there.

The midwife has visited us a few times at the house to check on both the baby and me. When she weighed Toby on Tuesday he had lost a bit of weight and was down to 8lbs 2oz but when she checked today, he had packed on an amazing 9oz and was up to 8lbs 11oz!! If he carries on at that rate he'll be a rather a big lad.

Beth is fine but is testing us all. She has been quite naughty and doing everything she has been told not to. Not quite sure of the best way to deal with this (suggestions welcome) but for some of it I think we're best just ignoring it. Hopefully she'll calm down as she gets use to Toby being around.