Mel - Welcome to the world of MCN! I have the BabyBeehinds AIO, in the smooth and the minkee material, and I have one pocket nappy - a Happy Heiny which is super cute but I dont love. What type did you get?

Megan - Good luck with the Christmas shopping! My sister got Tom the talking Elmo - hopefully he will love it. Even if he doesn't I want to play with it. So cute! We currently don't have any plans for #2.. I think I am still getting over my morning sickness the first time around! I think we would like to start trying when Tom is about 3. How about you? Is there any "reason" for this emotional state of yours that you need to share with me??. How's it going living with your parents? Is that the reason for your emotional state prehaps? Cricket is going so so. I can cope perfectly well with the training and the Saturday's away playing - its all the other crap. DH does the turf wicket so there always seems to be some excuse to be down there. I told him I think its time some of the younger guys without kids step up and help out, but I think it fell on deaf ears!

Jan - yay yay yay on setting a date! Which winery is it? Not Morning Star Estate? I have been to 2 weddings there and it is AMAZING. We went to another wedding in Mornington but I cant think of the name of the estate off the top of my head. My sister is having the same issues with dress shopping etc. She knows /she needs to get her butt into gear soon (hers is the 17/10) but needs to have Christmas over and done with first. Its great that Liam is enjoying daycare - gives you a better piece of mind doesn't it. (I loved your traitor comment). So far we haven't had to put Tom into daycare but work is talking about me doing another day next year and I think it will be too much to rely on family all the time. None of the centres in our town are closing, and they have spots available but centres in towns nearby will most likely be shutting, so I think the kids will be moved to the spots here.

Well, I am working the next 3 days so I really should be spending this time doing housework/ironing/washing/getting dinners ready/bags packed etc but instead I've been sitting in front of the computer. I have had a bit of bad morning - I put Tom into time out in his room because of his hitting and biting, and I feel terrible! It was just heartbreaking but I didn't know what else to do. Jan gave me some fantastic advice in a thread I wrote about it. Does anyone else have biting/hitting/aggression issues? Please don't tell me its just me! He is generally a really well behaved little boy but lately things seem to be getting a little out of control. I don't want him to turn into one of 'those kids' if you know what I mean! How is everyone else dealing with discipline issues? This mummy stuff is hard sometimes....