It's a busy life

Imogen and I like to get out and about every day. The fresh air and recent sunshine are good for both of us (although Imogen's not too keen on the heat that goes with the sunshine). We're slowly discovering the secret world of baby activities - there's so much going on that I didn't know about before becoming a Mummy.

Mondays is Sunshine Hour at church - singing, a bible story and activities, as well as the obligatory drink and biscuits. Imogen's too young for it really, although she enjoys the songs, but it gets us out of the house.

There's a choice of several baby or toddler groups on Tuesdays, but this week we found one that was really lovely. It's in Hillsborough, so quite close, and is just for babies (basically until they can move about themselves). This week there were quite a lot of first time Mums with babies of only a few weeks old, so it was good to chat with people in a similar situation to me. There were loads of lovely toys for Imogen, and everyone was so friendly - the chocolate bars helped too!

On a Thursday its the Sunrise group at church - this is for babies and toddlers, and is more a fellowship/friendship thing than a bible teaching thing. It's nice to go there because there's people we know from church, but also other people from the village, so hopefully we can make more friends.

Once a month the local libraries have "Babytime" which we went to a couple of weeks ago. I thought that Imogen may be too young for it, but everyone was really nice and Imogen enjoyed the singing bits, and since then we've been looking at books together - she likes ones with black and white pictures, bright colours, or shiny reflective bits.

That's the regular things at the moment, but there's other stuff happening soon too. We're hoping to go swimming when Imogen's had her first vaccination, although I'm still trying to work out where to go for that. We're booked on a postnatal yoga & baby massage course for 6 weeks starting in June - run by Olivia who I did the maternity yoga with when I was pregnant. Gymboree is something we're looking at as well - we're going to a free taster session for the baby class next week, so more about that later.

And between all that we have to find time for shopping, washing, hair cuts etc etc. It's all go, and I am tired, but I'm loving it (or most of it!)