Daddy's home after a successful trip

Daddy's car came 2nd only to the big works team Audi. That's a fab result. The drivers (boys in blue) stood on the podium with their trophies...

Mummy's going to be on the radio. http://www.bbc.co.uk/oxford/ (select listen again or listen live depending when you do of course). She's on the radio because I was in the hospital so long and because we were in the John Radcliffe newsletter, so they had our details. She'll be talking about how wonderful the Special Care Baby Unit is and how having so much resource put into it that it has been of a huge benefit to not only me but many many other little babies too. She hopes that she doesn't say 'urm' a lot or that she doesn't fluff it up!

This week I have been mostly growing. I'm 9lbs 15oz's, so teetering on the edge of 10lbs, which is less than my girlfriend I must add, she's a tub thumping 10lbs 20z's - mega!

Mummy and Daddy say that I'm giggling a lot. Daddy bought me some clothes back from Atlanta that say 'Major Giggler' on them with a medal on it - I'm in the army and do all of the fighting by giggling at everyone - that's how to win! Not that they advocate violence, giggling is a non contact, non violent past time!

Guess what?! Grandma Pat's coming over from France at the end of this month. In fact it's in 2 weeks tomorrow! We've been chatting on Skype - everyone should have Skype. Grandpa Barry and Aunty Steph should get it and get a camera and then we can chat and I would be able to see them too.

Mummy's been doing a bit of reading lately. She's been reading all about weaning me onto solid food. When I'm 6 months old (taken from 30th April) then I'll be able to eat a bit of food rather than have to drink it. Mummy's got me some baby rice that she'll introduce to me during my late morning feed and then when I like it she'll put a tiny bit of banana it or some stewed apple or some mashed carrot - yum. I'm not getting bored of the milk stuff, I could drink pints of it (and it feels like it sometimes), but I'm looking forward to a bit of variety; after all... isn't that supposed to be the spice of life!