I have been writing this for three days now but have had a few interuptions from the Monkey Prince...at 22:27 last Friday night we celebrated seven weeks with Joseph. It has been a busy ten days and we have seen a few medical professionals in that time. Monday saw us at Starship Hospital for Joseph's kidney scan - all normal (at the 20 week anatomy scan the tubes from the kidneys to the bladder were a bit larger than normal so they wanted us to get that checked out once he arrived). He was charming with Sarah the sonographer and only did one little wee.

Wednesday was his six week injections appointment and he was very good...yelped a little bit when they went in but not too many tears. I fed him straight afterwards and the immunisations did not seem to impede his ability to feed in any way! He was a bit whingy for the rest of the afternoon - nothing that a lot of cuddles from Grandma, Mummy and Daddy couldn't cure! This photo shows two of the three injection sites on his (substantial) thigh. As the nurse said - he's hardly failing to thrive!

I've managed to get a pic of the mullet, which on viewing the is actually more of a rat's tail. Eye colour still not determined and I haven't been able to capture a decent tummy time shot, suffice to say it's coming along well.

We had our first "Mother's Group" on Thursday - only a mini one however with three Mums and babies. Joseph was the oldest by three weeks and also the heaviest by at least three kilos. The other babies, William and Elizabeth, were tiny dots of things...I was remiss and didn't photo-document the event. I'll get a photo from next week's gathering.

He's also getting to the age when we can start getting some shots of him being more alert and generally cute - here he is in a yellow two piece courtesy of Grandma.

I've starting doing a little expressing...I was concerned that if we started giving Joseph a bottle he would refuse the breast. No need to worry...he polished off 80mls (our trial size) in about three minutes (less time than it took me to express!!). Just had time to grab the camera.

Finally, here's something else we swore we'd never do...have him in our bed...this was after a bit of a fractious night and I couldn't get him to settle back in his cot. Anne Geddes - eat your heart out!