Mooshie – yay for Jay’s first day at school! Sounds like you coped brilliantly – it’s always the mums I worry about more than the kids! So cute that Lani missed him too.

Michelle – that is so cute about Jess saying “I love you” when you tuck her in. And it’s still cute even though she calls you Michelle! Don’t think I would care what Charlie called me as long as he started talking… he still only says mum, bub and dad. Talking late runs in both sides of the family for boys so I shouldn’t be too worried I suppose.

Hooray for convenient child care, Jessica. I haven’t put Charlie in any centers yet but everyone I know who has has found it really hard to get good child care that is convenient. I’m really glad it’s working out for you – even though it must have sucked to hear him cry. I would have broken down too I think! What is Mini Maestros? IKWYM about having bubs at the grandparents house… it’s funny that we crave a little bit of time to ourselves but as soon as we get it all we can think about are our kids!

Bon – sorry about Grace sleeping badly the other night. Hope it was just a one off. Sounds like she’s a great little swimmer –I’m going to look into enrolling Charlie for swim school this semester. He does like the water but hasn’t had any actual lesson yet.

Having a relaxing one here (or trying to!). Spent almost 4 hours cooking today, but at least all the lunches are ready for the rest of the week and the dinners are ready from now until Tuesday night. It’s hard with DH getting home late and there not being any latches on the cupboard doors to keep Charlie out while I’m cooking so I thought I’d take advantage of DH being home today and get it all out of the way. Phew! Not much else has been happening. Charlie has been heaps of fun this week and I’m really enjoying spending some time with him. For some reason he’s only having 1 hour’s sleep ALL DAY which is driving me nuts. He was having a 1 ½ - 2 hour sleep every day before this, but it seems to be all he needs at the moment, unfortunately, because I need more than that! He always wakes up really grumpy too – not sure why. Nothing that a few cuddles and Play School doesn’t fix though. We’ve been going to the park late in the afternoon these days – in Brisbane it’s WAY too hot to leave the house any earlier than about 4 in the arvo, and he’s been a little champ about it. We both go a little stir crazy here, but we manage. Starting back at uni in a couple of weeks so I’m just enjoying the time off!

Anyway, enough babbling, dinner calls. Hope you’re all having a lovely weekend and HELLO to anyone I missed.