Thanks for your routine info guys. It's interesting to see the similarities and differences.

Mel -:hugs: it must be stressful going on holidays with two young ones, even if you are having a good time. We should do that get-together we all talked about a while back.

Arrowroots - should be ok choking wise if sucked on, I wouldn't yet just because of the ingredients but that's a personal choice.

V - Autie is also working hard on the crawl. She's managed one or two forward movements, but it's mostly all backward atm Tonight she couldn't stop herself practising in bed and it took ages to get her to sleep even though she was tired.

Em - Bad luck about the pram but at least you're doing some exercise unlike a certain lazy a** I know... L All those changes to normality are sure to have affected Tom so don't stress over him being unsettled - you'll soon get things going I'm sure. My niece, now 13m, didn't really start taking solids until she was about 10m and went straight into finger food and normal dinners etc. I understand it can be quite common, especially in BF babies. how'd you go with the pumpsicle? L

Danielle- Rice cereal is so bland I don't blame them for not being really into it. Having said that, I like the Rafferty's brand as it seems to have more texture. I gave it to Autie as her first food but I soon switched to vegies. When I give it to her now, I mix something (anything!) in with it for flavour. Autie loved food from the get-go so can't really help with how long it will take...sorry.

Megan - I only get about 2- 21/2 hours out of Autie during the day most days, in three naps. Wow, on the 8.5kg! There's so many of you 8+kg babies! Autumn is only 7.2 and she was 4.5 born! She still has rolls though -hope she's not the short, chubby kind like her mum LOL

Nay - Yes! Autie started a very fake cough in the last week or so. We call it her Zoolander cough (I think I got the black lung pop) I had the doctor check her chest when we got her needles done but it was fine as we knew it would be. Hilarious though.

For anyone interested, one of the moderators (can't remember which sorry) recommended a book called 'the science of parenting' and I borrowed it from thelibrary yesterday. It is a really interesting approach based on the chemical/ hormonal goings-on in children and babies brains and deals with how parenting should respond in all kinds of situations based on what's happening in their brain at that time. Easy to read too.