We like touchdowns. Unfortunately we don’t like how Michigan are playing the rest of the time though.

Last night we went to our Realtor’s client appreciation party. It was a complete hoot and we won some great things in the play-money auction- sadly we were a good few thousand moolah short of a trip to Mexico but we got some nice serving dishes and a fabulous sushi set. This year’s fancy dress theme was ‘A Little Bit Country’. Oliver went as a cow.

What was that? You want to see another picture? Oh go on then…

There’s no question about which team we support in this house, and here at Peachy Hollow we like to start them early…
Go Blue!

Friday could not have come soon enough. This past week has been exceptionally busy, plus on top of that Baby Oliver Peach has been having yet *another* growth spurt leaving me exhausted from all the physical demands of feeding. I literally slept away much of Wednesday and Thursday, not by choice, but by necessity. But on the plus side, my baby pudge is finally falling off and all of a sudden I’m now just a little over 2 lb away from my pre-pregnancy figure. Hurrah! Anyway, back to tonight… what better way to end the week than with a gentle evening boatride, followed by a dinner of fish and chips and then ‘Top Gear’ on the telly. We even caught a bit of Jonathan Ross too. Yay for BBC America!

Here’s hoping that BOP will sleep through night again soon- for the past few days he’s started waking up at 4am, hungry and in need of a change. Tonight before sleepytime he took a whole ten ounces of breastmilk from a bottle within the space of an hour so I’m quietly optimistic.

***edited to add***
It’s 4.30 am. BOP is souuuuuuund asleep but I still had to get up anyway to pump out my rock-hard  torpedo boobs. UGH!

We waved goodbye to Granma and Grampa just a few hours ago. Soon they will be on a plane on their way home, looking forward to their next time they can see their little grandbaby which will hopefully be in just a couple of short months. Except at the rate he’s growing at the moment he might not be that little for that much longer. Up to now we’ve been using a washing up bowl to keep him fresh and clean, but I think we might have to graduate to a proper baby bath in the next couple of weeks.

Now back to real life… laundry, vacuuming and getting the house back together. All after a cup of tea, of course. Hopefully it won’t take more than a couple of hours and then the fun can begin- DrMrNin is out this evening and it happens to be a particularly good telly night, so I’m going to have a date with the remote control and a big bowl of curry, squippee.

And my baby’s bottom is *very* soft at the moment thanks to the  Gro Baby cloth diapers. I don’t even have to use cream, just a dusting of cornstarch each change, and that’s enough to ward off any rash.

Lots of things happening here at Peachy Hollow. Oliver has just had a MAHOOOSIVE growth spurt (elephant child), just had his first cold, and appears to be now budding his first tooth. Yes, signs of a tooth at three months, poor him. And poor me. The girls have just started their new school, my  family are over to visit (again), and we have humming birds in our garden *squee!* Proper updates to come soon. Right now I’m enjoying some quality time with my mummy and daddy xx