Sofia update - 3.43kg and immunised

Bouncy cradle 2, originally uploaded by Racmol.

According to the growth charts in Sofia's red health record book, our daughter is smaller than 96% of eight-week-old babies. She's also smaller than her brand new friend Millie (Angeline's baby) who weighed 9.5lbs at birth on Tuesday.

However, Sofia's doctor says she's healthy in all other respects, even though he wants her to come back and be weighed again in three weeks time.

You can see why little kids don't like going to the doctor. First you have all your clothes taken off so you can be weighed by the weighing person, then you get dressed again only for the doctor to take off your clothes again and poke you all over, then you get dressed AGAIN and get sent through to the nurse, who takes your trousers off and jabs you with a needle in each thigh...

In other news, we're hoping to exchange contracts on the flat in Queens Park on Tuesday but this all depends on whether I can convince the bank to fax the mortgage offer to our solicitor tomorrow.

The vendors of the house our vendors are buying suddenly announced on Friday that unless we all exchanged contracts on Tuesday, they would be putting their house back on the market. So I had to ring the bank and see why our mortgage offer hadn't arrived yet and it turned out they hadn't even printed it out yet, dsespite saying the previous Tuesday that it had 'gone to offer and would be in the post'. So it's looking like it could be a stressful Monday and Tuesday on the phone at this end.

Here's hoping it all goes through OK, or Sofia and I will be pounding the streets, trying to find a new place to rent before we have to move out of this one. Which should be just about doable in the three weeks available.

We're all a bit stressed - can you tell?