Preston is big and strong!

Just went to Plunket today to get Preston weighed and measured. He is big now! He weighs 5kg (at birth was about 3.75kg), and is 60cm long (at birth was 52cm).

Preston has officially outgrown his newborn sized clothes. I am going to put them all away now. The last few days I've been doing up just one dome or whatever fits and using them as pyjamas, but they really don't fit so now we are well into the 000 size (0-3 months).

We have been having a lovely time with him lately - he is so well behaved (generally) and has no problems - we are very lucky!

Who's a proud daddy? 

almost about to cry, but still so cute! 

Here is me and my darling - Preston is 9 weeks old now. 

How cool is Preston going to be in these! He was given them today and I dressed him up in his cargo pants and hoody with the shoes and he looks like a little skater dude :) They are a bit big at the moment - probably a month or so away from being his everyday shoes! 

Preston at 8 weeks. His hair has gradually fallen out and regrown. 

Preston in his cute Whale outfit. I think he's saying: "Yes I know I'm cute, but stop looking at me, I'm on a break" 

We are a happy family

We've got into some good routines and everything is going well. Preston has been putting on weight - I think I was unnecessarily worried by the Plunket lady. She came again and everytime she took a measurement would say "Hmmm, ok" and I would say "what - is something wrong?" and she would reply "um, ..... no .... everything's fine" which didn't leave me feeling too confident. And she wrote all these things in my plunket book that she was potentially concerned about. Then when I went to Preston's baby checkup at the doctors, they wondered why she had worried me when he is perfectly healthy, strong, supercute and everything. So it was all a waste of worrying about nothing.

He has grown 5cm in length since he was born, and his head circumference has increased by 3 or 4 cm, so he has grown out of his newborn clothes and hats (i had been thinking "what a silly hat - it doesn't even stay on" and then i tried another hat and of course the problem was that his head was far too big for it!). So now we are into the 0-3 month sized clothes and we were very lucky and had lot of presents from people - Preston has a giant wardrobe! I'm having fun dressing him in all his cute gears and I will take lots of photos of him for his fashion collection. I went to the Pumpkin Patch sale the other day and bought him some cool stuff, including a little hoody :) Just as well, since last night we decided to go for a picnic at Bastion Point for dinner and it was a bit chilly. He looked so adorable all bundled up in his hoody!

Nothing much else really to report - he is very good at smiling and being happy now - I remember for the first number of weeks I felt like I hadn't 100% bonded with him because I wasn't getting any feedback from him. But now we are totally in love with each other and he grins and chats away to us in baby language. He can make quite a few sounds and if you repeat them back to him it must be like communication he knows because then he gets really talkative!

He will be 2 months old on Friday! WOW!

Our nationwide Preston Tour

We took Preston on a big adventure a couple of weeks ago. This was our plan: Go to Dunedin for Anna's wedding, Go to Christchurch to show off Preston to my grandparents, Go to Napier to stay with Dan's parents, come home again.

Taking a new baby on a series of plane trips was a slightly daunting prospect, but actually Preston was fine. I just fed him so that the sucking action cleared his ears at takeoff and landing, and he slept most of the time. So it was no big deal! Of course we had a huge amount of luggage, as in addition to normal suitcases we had his big stroller and carseat.

We flew down to Dunedin with Melanie and Jenny which was fun and then stayed in a motel with them and Carrie, Mel A and Meredith, so it was like old times again! (If only Kathy was there too). I hadn't been there before so it was nice to finally see what everyone talks about. We enjoyed the unusual Dunedin business concept - we were overcharged at a number of places, so I decided their clever idea was to overcharge everyone since the percentage of people like me who notice would be small enough to still allow them to make a huge profit :) Although that theory was blown on the last day when Dan was completely undercharged.

Anna's wedding was just lovely and the weather was scorching! Poor Preston was beside himself with the heat and didn't sleep for the entire day, so you can imagine how much of a grouchy baby we had by the reception time. Dan was an excellent husband and daddy and took good care of Preston at the ceremony and reception so that I could enjoy the wedding with my friends.

Our next stop was Christchurch to visit my grandparents, but unfortunately I found out when I was in Dunedin that my Grandma had died suddenly :( So both my grandmothers died just before meeting Preston. We continued on to Napier but I only stayed for a day and then returned to Christchurch for Grandma's funeral. It was really lovely and Preston was even included in part of the service. He was a big hit with all of Grandma's friends wanting to meet him since they had heard so much from her. I was getting a little nervous though with him on the ground in his carseat and all these little old ladies peering in at him with their rattling cups of tea....

We flew home after that and pretty much crashed. It had been a big adventure - a wedding, a funeral, 3 cities and 6 plane trips. All with a cute little Preston!