night out

last night was our first night stay away from home with oliver, we went to have dinner and stay with friends of ours in Parramatta, their little boy Tate is 6 months so they know exactly what we are going through. It is so good to have friends to talk through parenting stuff with. I had a moment yesterday, started to feel overwhelmed by it all and get a bit anxious but once we got to Jo & Troys and I talked to Jo I felt alot better. Oliver was a little unsettled to start with but once he finally went to sleep we had a really good night- he is a really calm baby and does not cry a lot but will be eyes wide and its sometimes hard to get him to drift off to sleep, he has his moments where he will cry and act hungry 5 mins after I feed him but generally a top up will calm him again very quickly. I ate dinner hands free last night! The boys cooked up some steak and prawn & chilli sausages and we had a few games of pool on their new table and watched most of kiki's delivery service on sbs I really love Japanese anime but I always fall asleep these days before it ends so I have a lot of 1/2 monies to watch. Jo is always so generous and she has lent me the 'Baby Love' book & baby tata - massage dvd as well as an activity play mat which Oliver loves as I put him down this afternoon and he was really looking about and reaching for the toys.