Hi Em, Sacha, Mel, Raels, Jess, August (welcome back ), Nicky. I've been hit with the boring stick, I just feel like I've got nothing much to say. I'm hoping that once Liam decides to have a decent nights sleep or 3 I'll be more up to being interesting, but right now I'm just pooped. It's DF's birthday today, he's been very spoilt, cos we had choc mud cake last night when my family came to visit him and Lemon Meringue pie tonight with his Bro & the new gf. Very significant that we got to meet the gf, so fingers crossed it works out well. She was a nice girl, first impressions are that he's done well. Liam looovves candles, very funny watching him try to blow them out. As some of you will know already, we've found the BM dresses (woo hoo),so big weight off my shoulders, and the hair lady called me back today. And I bought a really tacky wedding cd today, you should see the picture on the front of it, kitsch heaven, but just trying to work out processional/recessional stuff & everything that goes in between, so it's kind of useful It's a small chapel, so will have to be a fairly short piece of music for walking up the aisle, cos I think we'll make the distance between entry & standing point in about 10 seconds if we're really slow.

August - how're all your plans going? I'm finding the time is slipping away so quickly, there's so much to do. Poor Lucas with his broken collarbone.

Jess - fingers crossed that it's all gone well for your mum. our favourite shows are wiggles, thomas, night garden & just recently Brum. Mind you, these are our favourites because they're the only things that mummy will put onto the television. And even with the wiggles, mummy only plays the ones with Greg in them, Sam annoys her too much, he's just too cheesy.

Sacha - my sympathies for the hi-5 obsession, i just want to smack those girls out most of the time. But from what I've heard (statistically significant survey of oooh, 1), girls seem to like Hi-5, boys like Wiggles. Autie's need for kisses for imaginary hurts is so cute. Which teeth is she getting? Are we already up to 2yo molars?

Mel - how clever is Jack! Liam can count to one, one, one, one I'm sure he'll get there though. How is your sister going with her new DD? The oats might be worth a try, the problem with that is that I love porridge, but only when it's drowned in sugar & am powerless to resist, so it's really not good for the waistline. I'm thinking of trying him on quinoa porridge which I make with apple juice, so not really porridge at all, just grains boiled up in apple juice, but tasty, especially when I put slices of apple in with it to steam up.

Em - what can I say, I feel your not be bothereds. Sometimes you just need me time to re-energise, and personals don't really count as me-time.

Raels - how are you going out there? How's Oliver's sleeping etc? Any more progress on the bed decision?


Somebody mentioned about bumps & bruises and things that kids do to themselves. Liam's got these really weird faint bruises on his inner thighs, at least they look like bruises, as I don't think that his legs are big enough to rub together to get clothing dye on them, plus he has no new clothes anyway. I've NO idea how/what could have done it, but sending him to d/c with big bruises kind of freaks me out. He's not upset by them at all, but it's somewhat concerning, I'd be horrified if anyone thought we were doing anything to hurt him in anyway, but I just can't explain it. Still got nasty nappy rash, seems like nothing we do gets rid of it completely, we get close, but then it comes back with a vengeance. on a funnier note, we have discovered that tomato sauce makes the food go down really well. We can't believe how much he'll eat when it's flavoured with tom sauce. As long as it doesn't extend to cereal...

Okay, enough babble from me, time to go to bed. Take care everyone.