Michelle - Sorry, that was badly worded! What I should have said was I am aware that there are others out there like your amazing self, who are doing it a lot tougher than I am. WOOOOOOOT!! on the sleep success! Sounds like things are going really well atm, I'm so happy for you!

Spring - Not excuses, just reality. You wouldn't find me running in Townsville during the day either! Treadmill might be the way to go. I'd love one too and definitely have the room for one now, but not the cash unfortunately.

BW/Michelle - Thanks for the info re speech/hearing. First thing I need to do is try and find a GP here. I am DREADING it. I will take both boys for a check up and get a referral to the paed I am hoping to see (Mako recommended him ) and go from there. I will also try and suss out the community nurse situation. I never went in Sydney with either of the boys because we had a great GP and paed and between the two we were pretty covered. But I think being here and the medical system being what it is, it might come in handy. Although I'm sure they too will be pretty busy. I am assuming there will be one at DDs school and I think I remember seeing the office when we did our visit. I am pretty sure they will confirm his speech is delayed, so I guess it's just a matter of having his hearing checked to rule that out and seeing if there's anything we can do to help him along. I'm hoping a speechie won't be needed because the waiting lists in Sydney were horrendous, I don't even want to think about what they'd be like up here.

Jayne - Ooh, black/purple sounds awesome! This is actually the darkest I've had my hair I think but I only get demi colours that slowly wash and fade out rather than permanent colour, so I'm assumign a lot of it will wash out today when I wash it (yeah, still in my jammies!)

I'd better get going. DH has taken L fishing in the boat for the first time this morning and Mama is nervous! I know DH will be super careful with him in the boat and he obviously has a life vest etc but still. I worry, can't help it. I didn't let DD go in the boat till she was 4, so this is a stretch for me. But he cries every time DH goes that he wants to go with Daddy and being where we are now, I don't think it's fair that he misses out every weekend (yes, my DH goes fishing every weekend *sigh*).