I'M BBAAACCKKKK MMMWWAAAAHHHH long post here i come!

Hi girls, been reading the posts but not a lot of spare time lately. Hey where's Murphy, you gone AWOL on us lady?

Neptune - thanks for the kudos love. good on you for logging those runs. I havven't been out for ages (i'll explain below) but the last run i did was about 3.5km, which i was happy with. I really want to get back to daily 10kers again soon, plus have a friend's wedding in a couple of months and all the kids from school will be there, so want to look fab! lol. Did you hear back from the prof about the counselling?

Janie is your mum there yet? so exciting. mine is coming from the other end of the country in a few week's time, i'm also excited... can't wait to show of bubba.

KellyD - yay for inlaws leaving! we just had a week staying with them and it has been a trial for Ashton. don't get me wrong, he loved the attention and got used to all the new faces pretty quickly, but we've paid for it since we got home! What brand is your portacot? did you find it sunk a bit in the middle? Ash would not sleep in the portacot, thankfully a friend lent us a bassinette, which he only just fitted into. and what a smart little girl you have there! sitting up!

green - did your boss agree to one day a week? and what a great idea for mum's day!

Hi smithy!!!

BG- the BLS advice is really appreciated. its so good to hear what others are doing.

hey sammie - sounds like you guys are rocking alogn very well. i love the name Colt too

hi BW - just remember, you can make such a difference to kids' lives. even if they don't appreciate it now, they will later. how fondly do we all remember those genuinely good teachers who obviously loved to teach and liked kids! it makes a real difference to people's lives.. and you probabl don't get paid enough either!

hey boc how are you going love? what is happening with you guys atm

Poppy - is it warming up over there yet? lol. any news? exciting happenings? ooh it's election time isn't it, do you think there'll be much of a shake up?

hi marcellus and lenny hope you girls are great.

AFU - well we are back home from tassie and as a result had one very unhappy overtired baby. In fact up until last night, we had about 3 weeks of unsettledness... started with a wonder week at 17 weeks, then immunisations and flying to tassie at 18 weeks then the week in tas and then home at 19 weeks. I haven't had more than 2 hrs sleep in a row in all that time!

He did NOT like the portacot, would only sleep in snatches in the bassinette, ended up sleeping in my arms most of the time just so he would actually get some sleep. Got home and he was wakign all the time, feeding all the time, not resettling, not going down happy and being pretty grumpy aarrgggh. exactly like having a newborn again! brh

to cap it off he's gone back to 25th percentile for his weight but up to 90th for his length!! gee, tall, thin... hmm sounds like hubby

Also we started solids. I know, it's very early and I was intending to wait til 6 months and do what BG has done.. BLS.. but the doc advised us to try him on solids with all the waking, unsettledness, extra feeding and not as much weight gain.

and oh, my, goodness. He does this crazy little dance when he sees his food bowl and eats it all! (mind you i'm not giving him too much). WE are taking it very slow, he's had about a week of farex with booby milk; then introduced pureed pumpkin and this morn added potato.

I can't believe him, he eats the whole lot, hardly spitting any out. grabs the spoon and puts it in his mouth as well. Anyhoo, I've noticed he's chubbed up a fair bit and seems a lot brighter than before. Fortunately we have steamed veg nearly every night, so making his food is so easy for us lol. the most time consumign part is pumping milk to mix with it but i think i'm going to slowly go over to using boiled water... any thoughts there girls?

But we were still having sleep issues. so rang tresillian last night... i suspect he was over tired and being kept up too long. So last night, in bed by 7pm, rocked to sleep and put down. fed at 9.30pm when he woke, rocked to sleep and put into cot... slept til 1.30am (that is a huge acheivement, it has been only til 11.30pm after a 9.30pm feed) had a feed, fell asleep with eating, Went into his cot happily again, and didn't hear boo til 6.30am!!!!! then only wanted a nappy change, small drink and back to bed til 8.30am.

When he woke i offered booby 3 times, with 5 min break inbetween (placed in his cot for quiet, unstimulated time) and he didn't want it. so made his puree breakky and he ate it all then finished iwth a small booby feed??? So was a bit confused by this as he seemed to know it was solids time and he didn't want booby? any thoughts ther girls? just go with it do you think?

anyhoo the even more exciting part comes next, about 9.45am i stopped playtime, changed him, read a book in his room and had a little cuddle and rock. put him to bed awake with dummy... said ''nigh, nigh'' and walked out of the room.... AND HE WENT TO SLEEP BY HIMSELF... hhhoooorrrraaayyyy. So that was an hour ago! and not a peep!

please keep your fingers crossed he sleeps til at least 12.30pm then will have a good booby feed

i'm sure i've jinxed myself by hoorraying his sleep last night, but i really hope we've turned a corner now! don't mind doing a 9/10pm feed and an early hours 1/3am feed but feeding every 2-3 hours over night was killing me!

Also, post wonder week - he's really changed again. is much more coodinated and apparently nearly everything mummy does is funny. Even when he's screaming, once i settle him, he'll turn to me and laugh!!! WTF! we tell him that it's not nice to laugh at someone you were just screaming at 30 seconds ago! lol.

So anyhoo, we aren't putting him up for adoption just yet hahhhaahhaaha

waffle waffle waffle... now... i have spare time, and not baby is sleeping on me. what to do? what to do? oxoxo