Hi girls,

Shanti (took me a while to figure out you changed your name!), I haven't turned Jared around yet, and he's nearly 10kgs and almost 70cms. He'll be six months old on Sunday. He is quite content facing backwards and I can hang some toys off his seat straps that way which he really likes. I'm in no hurry to turn him around, although Ben was turned at 5 months even though he was a smaller bub ~ but then again, everybody is a smaller bub than Jared
We've started Jared on solids too. So far he's had some banana, (which he loved at first) rice cereal (which he really, really likes, probably because it's mixed with booby juice) and some sweet potato. I'm going to cook up some apples tonight and we'll try them on the weekend. I'm taking it really slow since Ben has some strange allergies (strawberries and mangoes!). J still loves his booby above all else though and is still refusing any and every bottle.

Orange, I love my maxi-rider AHR! We'll be getting one for J when I see them really cheap again. We got 30% off Ben's so I'll be looking for something similar. No hurry though, we can still turn his carseat around when he's too big for rear-facing.
I know of so many guys going in for the snip soon! My DH will be getting off lightly after we've had our last bub. I hate not being on the pill as my body goes nuts, so I'm quite happy to take that forever!
Well done on the TT your little girl! Ben is still not interested. We'll at least wait until the spring, maybe later to encourage it a bit more. I'll let him run around starkers then - if he'll do it.

Us, we had a busy day visiting all of the boys' cousins. Ben had a ball, but I've been feeling a bit off colour. I actually feel like I've got morning sickness, but it would be an immaculate conception, so I don't have to worry Jared's two bottom teeth have been bothering him, I'm hoping when they finally cut, he'll stop biting me! He's sleeping well though, Ben always slept really well when he was cutting teeth too - strange I know! We all start swimming lessons in two weeks. We managed to get both boys into the same class so DH and I will both be going as well. Should be a lot of fun. Ben used to do lessons before I went back to work last year.

Jared is doing really well with his reaching and balancing. He can reach right over to the side while he's sitting, to get something, and then correct his balance. He still hasn't rolled back to front yet, but has done front to back a few times now. He's not showing too much interest in crawling, but he doesn't need to, Ben is already running around picking up toys for him!

Have a good weekend.