Jessica – you poor thing being sick, and poor Aidan getting sick again!

Sherie – Happy Birthday to Paige! Hope you went ok with the cake – sometimes those ones are deceptively difficult. I hope you both had a lovely day – what present did you get her? I’m thinking ahead about what to get for Charlie in August.

Mitch – wow, Jess must be little to only be on 0s now! I wish I could meet her – she sounds so cute! You guys are coming up this way sometime next year, aren’t you? We’ll have to meet up again. Sounds like she’s going great guns with the tt. She’ll have to give Charlie some tips when I work up the courage to try it with him!

Does anyone know how I would go about finding a playgroup? I think I need to find one – I have had a couple of issues with some so called ‘friends’ recently who treat me like a second class citizen now that I’m a SAHM. At Tom’s gig the other day one of the girls (who I usually get on with really well) was really rude – she chose to bring up over lunch the fact that she doesn’t really like babies, and this was with me, Charlie, Toby and another woman who had her 7 week old there. A few other comments she made and the way she treated me made me feel like I’m not important now. It made me feel so bad because I was really looking forward to having a social outing with these guys. I think I need to start socialising with people who think that having kids is as important as I think it is. Have you guys ever felt the same way? I figured you’d understand!

Poor Charlie – he’s got a little bit of a fever, AND he’s been waking up through the night when Toby does lately. He didn’t for the first two weeks, but now he screams out at night when Toby does. We don’t really know what to do – we don’t want to go in there because he needs to learn that Toby crying is normal and we also don’t want to wake Charlie up more by going in to him. It’s horrible though because I just want to go and give him a cuddle. When it happens through the day it’s not so bad because we can explain to Charlie what’s happening, but at night there’s not much we can do. I hope this phase doesn’t last long! It’s also hard because we don’t want to ‘rush’ in every time Toby cries and we feel like we have to so we don’t wake Charlie up. * sigh * Apart from that, though, things are going really well here. I hope those who are ttc have some luck soon – it’s good having them this far apart, and I think they’ll be great mates in a few months’ time.

Anyway, I think an early night is the key tonight. Hope you are all having a lovely week.