1 week, 2 days, 7 hours, 18 minutes

Despite my direst concerns, I haven't managed to drop, break, or otherwise permanently scar Christopher. Psychological scarring does not count.

It has been an interesting experience so far, not as traumatic as expected, however, that is all due to Christopher and has nothing to do with us. He is a very contented baby. He only cries when there is something wrong, change his nappy and he quietens down, I've even changed his nappy (yes, I actually am changing nappies) and he didn't cry. That was the exception though, normally he launches into a full throated aria every time.

We celebrated Jenny's birthday on Tuesday, and had her folks around for dinner, they provided the dinner. A very pleasant evening with Christopher on his best behaviour.

Sleep deprivation is not an issue, I manage to sleep through the feeding so I am fine! Jenny is being fantastic and feeds him at night, he is managing to sleep up to 4 hours (on a good stretch) at a time. So Jenny is not feeling too ragged yet. I do my bit every now and then and let him fall asleep on my chest before putting him into the cot so Jenny can grab an extra 30-45 minutes of sleep.

All told things are going well, as Jenny puts we now have a 'new kind of normal' in our house. A normal I could get used to, I can't wait until he start developing and we can see the growth stages.

Next week should be a bit calmer and I'll try to get a couple more pictures uploaded as well.