Six weeks

On Tuesday this week Timmy has crossed the 4kg mark. He's was 4360 grams, and 57 cm long. This is precisely 1320grams and 6 cm more than six weeks ago. Now that he's _so_ big, some of his body parts are especially so - like his double chin (demonstrated below). It is so big that we're almost worried that it'll overtake his first chin :) He generally has a lot more baby fat on him now - like chubby arms and thighs, and what I especially love are the dimples on the back of his hands.

This week we've been trying to regiment his feeding a little. Prior to this and since his birth I've been feeding him pretty much constantly whenever he'd cry. This on one hand has been good, because it ensured that breastfeeding worked perfectly, but on the other hand meant that I am tied to him almost all the time. So we've been trying to leave 2 hour gaps between feeds and it's been working reasonably well. The only trouble is that because he doesn't take the dummy we have to entertain him whenever he's unhappy and starts crying, and obviously can't use the boob to calm him down. It's been manageable so far and today has been a very good day - he's been going almost 3 hours between feeds and seems very happy and content.

The milk pump arrived yesterday and today I already expressed some milk (whole 40 ml worth!). Thus tonight will be a moment of truth - will Timmy take the bottle? Jack's betting that yes, and I'm leaning more towards a no, given our experience with the dummy. We'll see.

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In other weekly news Jack's laptop and our printer decided to die on the same day this week. The printer we managed to revive with an original HP cartridge - annoyingly cheaper versions don't seem to work, and give a "Cartridge Error" (strangely only some months later). But the laptop does seem to be well and truly dead. So now the two adults in the household (not counting Unix) are forced to share one laptop... which is very novel and somewhat difficult, considering that we're both at home at the moment and spend a lot of our non-baby-related hours (or should I say minutes) on the internet. Because it was also the laptop that we used to hook up to our projector and watch stuff off the internet (my laptop doesn't have the right s-video connection), we're now forced to entertain ourselves with German TV - and we can safely report that all in all TV here is pretty crappy, just like Timmy's nappy. But on the upside we do get to watch the first World Cup match tomorrow - Germany vs. Australia.

Speaking of the World Cup, Germans are all going crazy about it again - just like four years ago. Bakeries are selling doughnuts complete with a whistle shaped like a soccer ball. Cafes and pubs are attracting more customers by advertising matches on their blackboards. Almost every car has a German flag on it, as do many of people's balconies. Jack has just rearranged our Aussie flag on the balcony to be most visible from the street. And not even an hour later we got an "Aussie Aussie Aussie!!!" cheer from below, courtesy of another set of drunken louts on a beer bike who saw it. When I got out onto the balcony they all waved at me, and I waved back - go Aussies!!!

Two photos of nightly Berlin below...