Hi Brooke a HUGE warm welcome to you and Amilia!! :smt039
Good luck with trying to conceive #2, if you feel ready, I think you are wise in ignoring the advice, there are a few girls with babies similar ages in here and are pregnant too! I am waiting till ened of the year (Felix is 8 mths too) only because I am selfish and want one toilet trained before I have another! From what I have seen every age gap has it's +'s and -'S

Ambah don't worry about the crawling, some babies don't crawl until they are 18 mths old! It just depends on how keen they are to get around I guess and individual personalities? I don't think it would be to do with his weight. Believe me puting him down and going to the kitchen to find him across the room chewing on my DP's belt is quite alarming, I have finally put the plug protectors I bough ages ago in the power sockets! and take up at electrical cords when I found him tugging and chewing on the fan cord.

that is SO cute with the kisses I still get the open mouthed sloppy kind..
Thanks for the rice pudding idea, I have been looking for more high calorie foods, he has been eating SO well all week and the yesterday and hardly ate a thing! I don't know whether he was sick of the food he was offered or just not hungry? ](*,) Maybe it's because he's learnt something new?
Anyhow got to get back to my caterpillar!