HAPPY BIRTHDAY AVALEIGH!! Hope you've had a great day with your Mum & Dad.

Thanks everyone for your birthday wishes for Liam. He's had a super day, we went to visit my grandmothers for lunch, along with my sister & her lil boy, and my cousin & her lil boy. My Gran has been a bit under the weather lately, and she just loved having all the babies around, so I'm really glad we made the effort. Plus my aunt cooked a delicious roast pork leg for lunch. And so many toys now in this house, and we haven't even had his party yet!! Actually, that sounds a bit greedy, it's not meant to, we didn't invite people for the presents, we invited them cos we like them, and they all mean something to Liam.

Mel - to you, you've got a lot on your plate at the moment. How's Jack's hand going?

Lis - I have constant food moods with Liam, so he's not a good comparison, but my sister's boy, who's been a great eater in that he just took to it quite easily and always enjoyed food, I think he went through a phase where he decided to get fussy with food. But he did come through the other side, I think my sister just kept offering, and eventually he went back to it all without any bother.

Emma - OMG at that be-atch of a MHN. For what it's worth, I offer Liam choices, and I also tell him to be careful of his fingers/hands/head. Just because I verbally tell him doesn't mean I physically stop him with everything though, which is probably just what you do. She's mental.

Sarah - yay for getting some time with Ryan, that's a lovely thing for Bayleigh to have all his family around. I can't believe how much he eats & how little he weighs - well I can, but you must have a super active kid on your hands. You sound like a superwoman with everything that you're doing for his party.

We had Liam's 12 month check yesterday - he's 9.9kg, which surprised me, cos I thought he'd be over 10kgs by this stage, and he's 75.5cm long. It's extraordinary to think how much they grow in this first year. My MHN was much nicer than Emma's, I was kind of dreading the visit given that he still wakes through the night, and is still on at least 5 bf's a day, but she didn't say anything really, which was kind of a relief. Although even if she had had an issue, I think I would have ignored her in favour of BB friends' opinions.

Anyway, enough of my rambling, I have 30 lolly bags to prepare!