Kel - OMG. Your Mum is a cow for saying all of that in her letting. I would be so ****ed too. IMO she shouldn't be talking about your labour at all. It is your business to tell who you want, not all of her friends and distance reallies. I say, chuck a spak and let her know she has offended you. By the sounds of things your labour wasn't favourable and I am very proud of you for lasting sooo long before having an epidural. I only lasted 9 hours before I had one. And I wouldn't worry about what people think. Everyone knows that if you are 'offered' a CS during delivery then it is because you need to have one not because you want to. And I think that when people read it that will be as proud as I am of you.

Sally - We have run up to the hospital a few times ourselves. I agree, you just can't take the chance. Though I am learning to read the signs and my mother intuition a little better now though and don't freak as quickly.

Jayne - Glad to hear the party went well. And well done to Claudia for standing on her own. She'll be walking in no time.

Kym - How is Monkey? Feeling better again yet? Have you tried the white noise yet?

Tobi is driving me nuts with all this crying. I am pretty sure he is teething this time, either that or he has Monkey's virus. His temp is up a little and drooling heaps. If he is still upset and hot in the morning then I will take him up to the doc to make sure it isn't anything else.

Tobi can sit on his bum himself now. I just went into his room and he was sitting up in his cot. Clever boy!! But the cutest thing by far is him playing with his ball. He throws it and then crawls after it, picks it up and crawls again. It entertains him for ages. He loves putting it under the lounge too so that we have it get it out for him. He looks in from one side at us on the other.

Last night I asked DH to distract Tobi for five minutes so that I could paint my toe nails. So he started playing with him, but not for long enough. Before I knew it, Tobi had the bottle of green nail polish turned upside down, dripping down his arm onto the floor and then when I got the bottle off him, he stuck his green hand on the lounge. And then DH tried to blame the whole thing on me as I shouldn't have been painting my nails on the lounge in the first place!!!! Little Tobi still has one green nail!!!

Hi to everyone else.
Love and Kisses
Tash