We've now had Joseph for six weeks...he's getting to be a big boy and we're all finally getting the hang of one another!

Joseph's milestones include smiling (but he's been doing that for a few weeks now), poking his tongue out, grabbing my top in his hands when I'm feeding or holding him, laughing and he's finally getting some eyebrows! There is also a lot of random grabbing and hitting out - here's a picture of Joseph taking on his Dad in the cruiser weight division.

We had our first Plunket home visit on Wednesday 26th. Our Plunket nurse is called Joan Springgay; she's a no nonsense English lady in her mid fifties. Joseph got a thorough check - eyes, ears, hips, testes, weight, height and head circumference are all in order. Vital statistics include length of 58 cm (53cm at birth) and head circumference of 38cm (36cm at birth). He's rapidly growing out of his clothes and we're about to start moving him into the 00 sizes. He gets a really big puku after a feed which means his 000 leggings are too tight around the waist! He also seems quite long and I need to get him some bigger singlets that we can actually do up under the nappy.

Tummy time continues to be a key achievement for Joseph...he's going really well on that front. It has been hard to get a photo that does justice to his strength this morning so I'll keep trying; here's one from a few days ago that gives an indication of how things are progressing.

We've also had some success with the implementation of the Plunket Sleep Routine and we're using a modified version of it. We went back to Plunket yesterday to talk about how we'd gone and we've "graduated" from Sleep Camp! We do wrap him up when he first goes to sleep but this is his preferred sleep mode. Quite cute I think!

I've had a couple of enquiries about his hair and eye colour...I need to get a picture of his mullet but that has proved difficult this morning! His hair is quite dark but seems to be getting fairer. His eye colour ranges from black to brown to grey so I'm not sure what we're going to end up with there.

I need to issue a notice of correction regarding Joseph's last weight update...he was actually 12lbs 3 oz (the Plunket Nurse gave me the wrong kg to lb conversion). He was weighed on Wed 26th and is now a whopping 13lbs 1oz (5.93kg)! Dan will post some analysis of Joseph's weight gain in the next couple of days (it compares Joseph's weight gain vs mine and Dan - trust me it's fascinating!).