Oh, that is just so cute Michelle!

Kel, well done on losing all that weight all by yourself. That's fantastic.

Hi Cate, good to see you here! Liebling beats me up too, I have bruises and scratches all over. I can't keep my hair in a nice style and he has now learned that "OUCHIE!" is soon followed by "let go of Mummy please, that hurts." He now lets go when he hears that, he has usually grabbed my neck, but because DH doesn't say please, just "gerroff", he doesn't let go of Daddy! He is very easy to train, just the pain of training. Still, at least he doesn't bite the nipple any more, so glad I trained him out of that before he got teeth! DS was teething for three and a half months, it was agony. He likes bouncing on our laps too, he also loves his baby bouncer so when he starts bouncing I try to put him in that now. You poor love with the reflux, luckily DS is over his again, it seems to only flare up when he's poorly now.

As for carseats, I take the seat out and then lift DS out of it. I'm dreading the day when we have to put him in a big boy carseat. I love my little man in his little portable seat! He goes to sleep so well in the car when I put the Dr Seuss CD on.

DS is now ready to sleep through, when he wakes he is not at all interested in feeding... shame that upstairs had to wake him up! What is so urgent they have to throw furniture around at 11pm? It even woke DH up. But now DS won't feed to sleep. I really hope he starts sleeping through this week, next week he will be in a cot in our room on holiday, then when we come back he can be in his own cot. Otherwise DH is going to get up and make him sleep again. That reminds me, must now buy a baby monitor - my mum's house is so big we'll need one there and when DS is in his room I'll need one for when he wakes up. At the moment he thinks 5.30am is the time to start the day. He is content when he wakes up now and is wide awake when he sticks his fingers in my nose to wake me up so I can't get him back to sleep.

OK, THAT was a long post so I'm off! Hugs and dribbles from mein kleiner Liebling.