A spaceship, a warehouse, a university

Today mummy and daddy took me to a big building covered in silver discs. It looked like a giant space ship, and I although I spent most of the time asleep as we walked around it, I really enjoyed myself (especially the bit when we went up and down the electric stairs - mummy told me that these are called escalators). It seems that this spaceship is called the Bullring, and has lots of shops in it. There were lots of colourful things to look at. I hope mummy or daddy take me to buy toys from there one day. I was even carried over this very high bridge - oooh!

After that I was taken to a place called the Warehouse, where Friends of the Earth is, which is where daddy usually works but doesn't at the moment because I have been born. They all think that I am really cute and were trying to get me to open my eyes so that they could see how beautiful they are... but all I could muster were some snuffling noises, which is also very cute but not very awake. Still, I won a few hearts, and no doubt will be offered the opportunity to dazzle my audience again some day.

After our excursion to the spaceship and daddy's work we came home and watched the television as I had my feed on the sofa with mummy. They were talking about university tuition fees and the students who don't like it so they are smashing up windows in London. Mummy explained that university is a place you can go to to study when you have left school. Apparently, the government can now charge £9000 a year for someone to go to university. She explained that the £20 that my great-grandma in Hassocks has given me today will go in a pot of money called a bank account that mummy is setting up for me and that it will pay for one day's classes at university when I am 18. Wow, she's already thinking about my education. I think she's jumping the gun a bit though, I haven't even got to nursery yet! Now THAT I am looking forward to: playing around all day with other children and making things out of plasticine. I can make a big MESS and nobody will tell me off! Can't wait.

I got some more toys, too - a train that spells Freddie from Uncle Mark, Kim and Isabel - can't wait to meet them next week:

And also a bee, which makes funny noises from daddy's auntie Lis and uncle Peter:

Blimey I have a big hand in this picture!

I'm gaining weight too - 2.96 kilos, nearly the 3.14 I was when I was born. Hooray! Mummy is feeding me lots - every 3-4 hours, and during the night too, even when she is very sleepy. Daddy lets her go back to bed after my early morning feed and looks after me so that she can get some more sleep. It's nice to have some kind of routine now. Our house is very warm and it's cold outside, and we are all snug and happy. More later.... Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz