Thigh me kangaroo down, sport

7.15 kilograms! at fifteen weeks: pretty bloody good going, I reckon. You just have to look at those thighs to see that she is putting away the tucker...

Also, after what seems like an eternity, Juno has been logging the odd 8-8.5 hour sleep for the first session at night. Hallelujah! Now, if Jess can only relax enough to sleep when Juno is alseep we will be totally sweet.

Shot some amazing footage of Juno laughing the other night -I only have a dial-up connection, so at this stage uploading the file is out of the question. While dressing Juno after her bath, Jess sneezed and Juno went into a semi-hysterical fit of giggling. Jess kept making sneezing noises and Juno just laughed more and more: it was astonishing, watching her get more and more worked up. Good to see that she is a fan of slapstick and hammy acting, though.

Grandma Heather

Heather came down to Wellington to celebrate her sixtieth birthday with her daughters and granddaughters and so, on saturday, we dressed Juno in her party frock and trucked off to Nikau for a sumptuous brunch. We all had a wonderful afternoon and Heather got to spend most of the weekend bonding with her newest granddaughter.

This was the first time that we had frocked Juno up and, as you can see from the photo, she was looking quietly adorable. The bib does, I admit, detract from the overall impression of a smartly-dressed 14 week old baby, but there is no way she can go anywhere without it: do you have any idea how much babies drool and vomit? Within minutes of dressing her, she can be covered in a substance suspiciously like cottage cheese, or just sodden with saliva - it's like living with Homer Simpson.

What is probably not so obvious from the photo is how big she is getting. In those first couple of weeks after she came home, she would fall asleep on my chest and the top of her head would snuggle into the recess under my collarbone and her feet would sit a little bit higher than my belly. Now, if she did fall asleep on my chest, I think I might have some difficulty continuing to breathe...