I can't believe how quickly they're growing up! Has anyone got any ideas for 1st birthday parties? Everything I thought of now seems like it would be a little too grown up for the bubbas...

Ambah - I re-read my post from last night b/c I was too tired at the time and I realised what I said about the crawling might be misunderstood... I only put down her ages b/c you guys know when I concieved and all the problems we had then and to say that I thought it meant he would really take off now. Anyway, I just wanted to make that clear just in case. I would never want you to think I was one of those competitive mothers as that's one thing that really irks me! Hope you read it with my original meaning.
Adara's really got into the splashing thing too lately, great idea with the pool!
Woohoo for the sleeping!

Christy - could just be that you're so tired that your body's taking a bit of catch up time. You do have to run around after a very active baby all day who didn't sleep through... I agree that you should probably see the Dr to make sure though. You know I'm constantly exhausted too, do you think... JK!

Katanya - I'm shocking with finances and we still rent, so I'm no help whatsoever! We spent a decent house deposit on our wedding thinking that we'd just buy with the wedding money we would've saved up but of course, things then got unexpectedly A LOT tighter. Then you add a baby or 2 and hey presto - signed another 12mths lease now! ](*,) Things seem to be picking up again lately, hopefully in a year to 18mths we can finally buy
Good luck with it all, hope you manage to find something good.

Adara starts back at Gymbaroo tomorrow, YAY! She LOVES it and it really wears her out so she sleeps better for 2 days LOL!

With all the upsets just before Xmas with Adara not well, shopping and moving, I got really slack about doing things with her. I only recently realised and just started to get back into it again but I'm having trouble coming up with more ideas...

Can I ask what activities you play with your babies? I thought it'd be good to swap some ideas, WDYT?

If you're interested, things we do is - throw a ball or rattle to each other (or dog), go for walks and to the park, open shut them and other action type things, sing nursary rhymes, read books, build and knock down blocks, starting to teach colours, pointing to facial features (with their own noise to keep her interested). If I think of more, I'll tell you.