Visiting

Last weekend, we went on our first "long" trip with our daughter (ie more than 1 hour away from home, and requiring more than 1 night's overnight stay). We went to visit friends of ours that I met at university who have also had a baby recently.

It was fantastic to see them - we've not seen them properly since our wedding last year, except for a day about 2 months ago when they did the long round trip in one day to meet our daughter before their baby was born. It was also slightly surreal with the four of us and two small babies - suddenly our care-free student days seemed a very long time ago!

It also gave N & me a chance to see just how much our daughter has changed - their baby is about 8 weeks younger than her and so the difference was noticeable. Whilst he felt so much lighter than she is, it was nice to realise that, for the time being, the sleepless nights are behind us and to see just how much more she interacts with us than she did only a few weeks ago. Only 13 weeks old, and already she seemed like a grown up!