hi everyone, I hope you're all well.
Michelle, I can't believe its 9 months already!!! I'm not looking forward to jumping up to the next group. This age is just so cute - I wish I could make a little hologram of him crawling around to keep forever.

Lily, welcome to the group, I hope to see more of you. There is another girl from Newcastle with a daughter called Lily on bellybelly but she doesn't reach 6 months for another couple of weeks.

Snowy, your post must have worked evn though you couldn't see it. I'm glad the christening went well (except for SIL's burns - owwie) good on Wolf for not sooking =D> . Yasin never seems to say ma ma ma ma, he's got da da down and ti ti ti and this morning he said ho (I hope he wasn't taking to me!!!). I feel a bit discriminated against.

Melbee, I'm glad you're enjoying your R&R. I saw the J&J competition in the coles magazine like the other girls. There is a website but its not up yet.

Lara, I think the health nurse is being a bit silly. Lots of babies don't crawl until long after 8 months. My friend's baby started crawling at 10 months and walking (while her hand was held) two weeks later. Some babies skip it totally. I hope that the pead sets your mind at ease about it. Woohoo on the weight gain.

Bon, I'm not collecting the Hienz labels. You need about a million and I don't often use bottles. I think if I did I would be collecting them. I think you should enter both your bubs in the J&J competion, they're both so cute.

Michelle, Are you still enjoying your new phone? I take so many photos of Yasin on mine. I have more phone photos than real ones (the one on my ticker is a phone photo). I email them all from the phone to myself but my computer can't open the video files so if I lose my phone I'll lose all my videos of Yasin. My camera phone is with 3 which is really expensive for normal phone calls so I only use it for sending photos about and I've got a vodaphone sim in my other phone which works out to be much cheaper. Yasin is obsessed with phones. He gets so excited when he sees one and tries to grab them out of people's hands. I found him an old one of mine but he's a phone snob and he's not interested in it. #-o

I got Yasin weighed and measured in the chemist yesterday. He's 8kg and 70cm which makes him long and skinny according to the charts. I didn't need to get him measured to know that #-o . I don't think I'll bother seeing the ECHN this month he seems to be going fine to me so I'm cutting back to visiting every second month unless something pops up that I want advice about.
I have much less crockery since I was here last. I asked DH to do the washing up and he came out with some half-witted excuse about needing to sort the numbers on his phone. He always has stupid excuses to avoid housework and I'd had a really annoying day so I threw a stupid tanty and chucked all the dirty plates in the bin 8-[ #-o . It must have scared him because when I got out of bed this morning the lounge room was spotless .