Morning all!

Jacci now you're in for it! He's going to be such a wiggly bum! Lol!

Amanda, can't wait to see those pics! I keep meaning to put the few that I liked on Charlie's website but have been very slack.

Amy bugger on the whole family catching the cold. It was like that here for a couple of weeks, and just sooo hard.

Abs, it's so hard when they go into their own rooms, I reckon. Hard for us, their parents, that is!

CC - I put Charlie down awake too. He grizzles and whinges a bit sometimes (not full on crying) and usually is asleep within 5 mins. I've never left to him to full-on cry, so don't think it's controlled crying. I do pick him back up if he gets past whinging and is getting upset, though, but haven't had to do that in weeks. He knows when he gets put in the cot, it's sleeping time and most times, his head is down and he's cooing himself to sleep before I even leave the room.

Solids: well I really wanted to wait until after 6 months, but Charlie had other ideas. Was mashing potato with one hand, and with Charlie in the other, when he lunged for the bowl, grabbed a handful of potato and had it in his mouth before I knew what had happened. Plus he swallowed it lock, stock and barrel. Lucky I hadn't put salt, butter or milk into it yet!

That was a couple of days ago, so I made up a little bit of rice cereal and offered it to him. Not only could he bring it to the back of his throat and swallow, he didn't drip any out. At one stage, he was sucking on the spoon, and holding on to my hand so that I couldn't take the spoon away. I think maybe he's ready to slowly start, then.