Hey Megan, I know what you mean about leaving this place. I can't believe that when I left Townsville to come up here, I was upset and counting the days til we moved back. But by the first year of living in the far north, we knew it would be impossible to ever imagine moving back to dry old "Brownsville". Ahh but especially now with Jazzy's deafness, we have to base ourselves somewhere closer to a regional centre for her treatment. Anyway, if we stay put too long, maybe we will miss another piece of Paradise somewhere else. We knew when I left my well-paying job, sold our house and cars and most of our possessions in order to make our tree/sea change that we would eventually have to go back to life in the real world with real jobs.

Thanks for your comments on Jasmine. She was so tiny and I suppose still is but to us she is getting huge, even though she is still mostly in 5 zeros. 3.4 kilos is just a normal weight, it's not like Neptune's little boomba they all catch up though and I wonder when Jazz will be 8.8 kilos.

Just wanted to dob in KellyD and pressure her to share her facebook photos with us here. They are beautiful kelly. I've wanted to see Princess Tara for so long and pictured her through all your descriptions. She is just absolutely gorgeous and bursting with smiles for everyone. My Dh is almost as in love with Tara as with Jazz. I think he may have a soft spot for girls hey?

As always I'm following behind you Kelly but I have been a bit worried that Jazz isn't smiling yet. It is used by everyone as the first milestone and it's like those comments when you are pregnant "oh you're so small", now it's "is she smiling yet?" and it just makes me feel stressed because I suppose with the hearing loss, it makes me wonder if there are other connections that are not working. It's probably silly, she does smile and it's a beautiful thing, but she doesn't smile at us yet and there's only so long I can blame her developmental age.

By the way, as I said earlier, she didn't go back to bed after her morning feed and then her first proper sleep all day apart from a few power naps was at 8p.m! what a day. I just seemed to feed her and try to settle her to sleep all day. I'm sure she knows I am really trying to study for my stupid psychology exam. It's already been deferred by two months and I only have to do this one exam until I put uni on hold for a while, but I have to somehow do it next month and she is not helping me.

Well all is well and Jamine is sleeping now, so I'd better try too.

P.S Kelly, I didn't buy the activity centre, I won't ever have to buy another thing for the rest of her life and she will still be too spoilt! We literally have enough clothes to wear an outfit everyday of the year and never have to wash. My sister gave me all her hand me downs which were great, and despite telling everyone we don't need clothes after that, every single gift since her birth has contained clothes (no joke). We bought her a single solitary book for christmas...tight wads hey? Well Santa will pull out the big guns when she is old enough to at least smile in appreciation