MegsMum - Hope you got a sleep in today. Perhaps E is going through a growth spurt? The MCHN told us that they go through one at this stage. Yaaay for the holiday! Glad to hear you managed to stop the hand hahaa

Willow - Hope you hear some positive information from the paed tomorrow. Glad to hear Bubba D is a happy baby... aren't they just the cutest.

Trish - Thanks soo much for the bicarb idea. I think it is helping, have done it for 3 days now. The kiddopottomas wraps are great aren't they. I have 2 but need to get some in the next size up. Hope Alana gets better soon.

Tk - Hope you had a safe trip to see your sister and that she is doing as well as can be expected. Did you have any luck with the cloth nappies? Good luck with the clinic

Saffi - Christmas presents... I have no idea what to do, even though she is our first lol. How'd you go with the card making? I really wish I was creative.

Misty - I never knew about the worms on the cat fur... we've been thinking of re-homing our cat. Sad but I think it is for the best given our climate and her long malting hair. It's too hard to have her in the house with DD now.

Koru - glad to hear the bumbo is a success. We were thinking of getting one. DH parents got a fisher price portable high chair booster seat thingy hahaa but its hard plastic and I'm not a fan of it for this stage

Issy - Welcome. Good on you for sticking it out with the bfing. Lochie sounds like such a happy baby and a healthy one at that DD was 5.1kg at 14wks last week (but she was born at 36+6).

AFU: We've had a rough week TBH. My sisters 2wk old baby underwent open heart surgery on Monday which was a big shock, and things were not looking good. But happy to say that things are going great and she had her first feed since Friday today So very scary! Miss Z & I have had a cold which has been more frustrating as it prevented us from going to support my sister. I'm nearlly over it but Z is still coughing and sneezing - never thought something so little could produce so much snot hahaa. We visit the paed tomorrow. I'm not sure if I'm in denial but I don't think she has issues with her gross motor skills.

She loves her bath time and I look forward to putting her in swimming lessons ASAP. It seems strange but she already has developed opinions on nursery rhymes and songs - she hates "the wheels on the bus" but absolutley loves me singing "heads and shoulders, knees and toes...".

I bit the bullet and ordered a jumperoo online the otherday when they were on sale. Also some more books. I would like to say these are for christmas but don't really want to wait another 5 wks to use them.

Anyway sorry for yet another long post. I've been slack with popping in this last week and DH is on night shift so I'm feeling a bit lonely. Hope you're all well and not melting in the heat