Happy 6 months to Tom!

Liam gets weighed next week, but I'm guessing that he'll be close to 8kgs & around 70 cms long, and he's still in 00 for everything, except the Bonds stuff, which is always small I think. He's got a longish body & short legs (gotta love genetics), but doesn't yet have a budda belly, so I'll probably get a bit more time out of the 00 trousers, but ready to go up to 0's for his suits.

V - would be good if we could maybe combine Liam & Avaleigh. I get great sleeps during the day, he goes down without problems everytime. In fairness, he's good at night once he's down, so it's just been that one part of the day where he's difficult, so I really can't complain that much. Even if/when he does wake up during the night it's very much a quick feed & back to sleep with no fuss, which makes it easy. By the way, have you heard back from your boss yet??

Sacha - pmsl at the evil shoe. I share your revised view on suicidal spiders. I have no objection if other people want to do the catch & release, but if I'm the one who has to deal with the situation, then it's the end of the road.

Mel - well done on the weight loss, that's a great effort. And it's good to hear that you & DH are at least talking & planning to celebrate your anniversary. I hope that you get to resolve the remaining issues soon, it's good to have clear air.

Em - your MIL sounds worse than mine. I think that sometimes I have mine a bit scared of me, as she just wouldn't dare to openly comment about my parenting like yours did - I'd be really furious if she made a comment like that to me. All things considered she's actually very good given that she's with us most of the time, it's just that the good things don't make for such interesting stories. And she adores Liam, it's going to be really sad putting her back on the plane, knowing that she will miss him so much, and she doesn't have any of her boys in the country anymore.

But, there's a good chance that she'll be out again in the near future, because I suspect that in the not too distant future I *might* get to plan a wedding. Pat & I were talking about getting Liam christened, and he's been struggling with the Catholic/Anglican thing (wants to keep both sides happy), but I said that my main problem with having Liam christened is that we're not even engaged, and I'm starting to feel a little worried that it might never happen, even though Pat has assured me that he'll get around to it. Anyway, turns out that he was going to ask at Christmas, but Liam was having such a bad time with all the people that the moment just never presented itself. Not sure why this is all so complicated, it's not as if the answer is a surprise. So that's a bit exciting really, although I'm not going to talk about it anymore until I have something positive to report, cos I don't want to jinx anything.

Enough from me now (& wow, twice in a day!!), sorry for the blabbing, it's just been such a long time.