Hope all is well and sleepy at your place Kate! If I lived nearer, I'd take at least one of the girls off your hands for a few hours.

Brooke, I'm on meds because of my horrendous run at pregnancies. before Pup, I had 6 miscarriages. Pup's was the only pg to work and I took all those drugs for it. So we are sticking to the same formula.

Rach, was it you who asked about first tri tiredness?? OMG I can't believe it. I dunno wether I was this bad with Pup, but I am absoultely buggered this time round. For the past week or so I have been getting the morning sickness happening too - mainly in the afternoons tho. Feeling very ropey I can tell you. I feel so crappy that I can't even get into the Christmas spirit and I have all the presents to wrap and a small amount of fruit and veg shopping still to do. Blurghh.

Vanita, I give Pup chocolate quik!!

Lisa, Pup was breastfed until 14 months. I am still having trouble getting him to drink out of any cup - normal or sippy - because he doesn't seem to have the idea of tipping the blasted thing up! The only think I can get him to drink out of is a cup and straw. He drinks about 100ml of milk out of this in the morning, but in the afternoon and night he does have a bottle (200ml and 120ml respectively). But we will definately be working on this in the new year. I think it is just a matter of sticking with it, in order for him to "get" the idea of the cup. He sometimes manages it ok, but always with me holding on. Otherwise, he'd just tip it all out all over himself.

A friend of mine had her 2nd baby on Wednesday by C-section. She had an absolute horrible first birth (ripped quite extensively - and needing surgery to sew her back up) and still today, she has all sorts of problems as far as going to the toilet (both 1's and 2's). So the caeser was elective. But at the 20 week scan, they found out that the baby had a cleft palate and lip and were understandable apprehensive. but I spoke to her today and it turns out, that the baby only has a cleft lip and the palate is fine. Phew! Oh and the baby is a boy. So not as much in the way of surgeries for the little tyke thank God.

We are having a nice bit of rain today - only really settling the dust. No doubt there will be powerline fires all over the place (you get them when you get rain on dusty powerlines), so we are ready with the generator in case the power goes off at milking time! I went into town today and it is INSANE. It never ceases to amaze me how people tend to go CRAZY grocery shopping. I mean, the shops are only closed for one day (2 at the max) and it is like some people are stocking up a bomb shelter! I have to get some seafood and am leaving it till the last possible moment. Ugh. I've done the grocery shopping, but I just know that getting the seafood will take 1hr for a usual 15 minute trip.

Hello to everyone. Hope you're all surviving the mad mad rush to Monday!!