Eight weeks - 56 days

Weight and length progress for this week as of Tuesday - 5050kgs and 58cm. Tuesday was also the last visit from our wonderful midwife. She has been so very helpful and without her I think things would have been a lot harder. She's very down to earth with very relaxed attitude and has been very supportive and giving very good advice. I feel like she almost became a family member. We're really going to miss her.

This week Timmy started grabbing things. Mainly he grabs his favourite toy, which is a wooden ring with a cat head on top. It hangs off his wooden stand thingie. He's been able to push hanging toys for a while, but this week for the first time he's actually managed to grab it. Every time he does it, he gets really really happy by smiling a lot and wiggling his little hands and feet.

One thing that seems to happening regularly these days (probably mainly due to lack of sleep, although two nights ago was the new record of 7.5hrs) is that Jack and Tim take naps during the day, which always makes me smile...

On Thursday we went to the Botanical Gardens. From us it's a direct trip on the bus and took about 40 mins. It was the first time we went there and it was a welcome change to our usual walk around our area. The park is pretty big and very well maintained. Flower beds have various colourful patterns, all plants are marked with Latin names and even the rubbish bins have been jokingly marked in Latin to the tune of "Papyrus Antiqus". One slightly disappointing thing was that we couldn't use our picnic rugs and sit on the grass, because there are apparently 80 different species of grass that are very sensitive to treadling. This fact made us wonder how the grass is mowed and Jack concluded that they must have special helicopter lawn mowers that sort of hover above the grass without touching the ground. So instead we stopped to sit down on one of the numerous shady benches for Tim's lunchtime feed. There we were immediately surrounded by tiny birds, a very friendly squirrel and a shy little mouse all wanting a treat. We couldn't resist and fed them a little bit of bread. Next time we'd like to go to the big glass houses that should have some interesting plants, but it seems that one can't take a pram inside, so we'd have to come slightly less packed.

Some photos from another walk this week...

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In non baby related news, this week I discovered my new favourite shop for summer dresses - Desigual. I can't believe I didn't know about it until now, because it is so me! All clothes are so colourful and with interesting patterns. Trust the Spanish to come up with it.

Oh, and just in case anyone was wondering how long a closed plastic jar of honey can remain cooking in a microwave prior to exploding, it's exactly 5 minutes :)

Go Julia Gillard!!!