Finally i can tell the boys there's only one more sleep!!! It must have seemed like the longest month for them

Things are moving along nicely here. I have to prepare for family coming over tonight AND tomorrow. All good though happy to be able to have the kiddies at home.

So Harper Barper seems to have become personality + since her 1st Birthday. So much chatting and eye contact and snuggles and clapping of hands and Ho Ho Hoing when she sees Santa. It never ceases to amaze me no matter how many little ones i have been blessed to see grow. We seem to be making some progress on the sleep topic. Feeding to sleep is now and option but not a necessity and if she is feeding before a sleep she is not necessarily falling alseep. I was rocking her to get her sleepy but if she wasn't yet sleepy she would struggle in my arms for a bit and this was getting difficult, frustrating and i was worried that we might have an accident. So one night last week i put her in her cot and lied on the bed next to her. She rolled around in her cot just sooking, some crying in which i sat up and gave her lots of hugs and then she'd drop herself back down again and roll around head down and bum up a little more. It took maybe half an hour but eventually she fell asleep without too much fuss. Some times she will eventually doze off and sometimes i pick her back up and help her but it's such a huge step from where we were. I see such a difference in her quality of sleep and i've even had a 6 (almost 7hr) block one night!!! And another big woo hoo for me is that yesterday she came christmas shopping with me (would have loved to have her at home with dad but he wanted to work outside so she had to come with me) and she actually fell asleep in the pram!!!!!!!!!! Huge huge acomplishment for us because it used to be that no matter how tired i knew she must have been she just would not do it. So i feel some confidence in finally being able to say we're getting somewhere and i see the change in her because of it. All that matters to me

She's speeding around the place on her hands and knees now and much more confident when standing on her feet, no real steps being made but some very stiff legged ones here and there. I can't believe this is where we are, life is pretty special.

As for AA and his eye appt, it was found that his vision is fine, even in both eyes and he does not need glasses but the turn is definately there. They call is squint eye and he needs to have surgery to correct it. The specialist wasn't very forthcoming with info on the actual condition so all i know is what i've read on google but i'm hoping when we have an appt with the surgeon next May she'll go through things with us in much more detail. My initial reation to hearing the word surgery was tears but i want to do all i can to help my boy. So we'll take it from there in May. In the mean time the turn is becoming more and more noticable. The other morning while playing on our bed he went nose to nose with Harper and my gosh i could only see half of his eye ball. I'm not sure what he notices if anything

That's about it from here i think, i hope all is well with everyone else.

Audax enjoy your hide and seek games

MadB how is little Miri and her cough going? I hope you got on top of it early.

PP yay for school holidays!!! Like i said we're having my dad's family around tonight for Christmas Eve and then DH's family (or some of them) for lunch tomorrow and then i think we have to go to DH's sisters place on Boxing Day (family rift can't all be together at once ). THEN we go away on Jan 16 for 2 weeks. Really looking forward to that. How about you what are your plans?

Better go i have heaps to do. Merry Christmas everyone enjoy the day with your family and loved ones xoxoxo