Hi all,

Just a quick note here as I need to get someone into bed. He's usually very good about it, but has other ideas at the moment, as he's had an ear infection this past week and is just now starting to feel better so doesn't want to go to bed.

We're having a party for Zeke next weekend, just a BBQ lunch with a few family, his godparents & our mums group friends. I'm cheating and ordering an uniced mudcake from the Cheesecake Shop so I don't have to bake it, just decorate. Normally I bake, but with what I want to do (pics will go on FB) I need a good cake that's not sunk in the middle, and my oven's a bit weird, so rather not take any chances.

Zeke is getting too smart for his own good. He can say dada, mama, no, more, banana (nana) and duck, but he doesn't always use them in the right places. I'm still dada sometimes!

Changes are shocking here too... he fights with everything he has and he's really quite strong! I have to do it very quickly, or get my partner to help keep him still. Sometimes giving him a bottle can help, but a lot of the time I spend more time flipping him back over so he can't get away than I do actually changing him!

I've tried a few different sippy cups for Zeke but he can't seem to get the hang of tipping it enough to get the liquid up. He's fine laying down with a bottle, but he'd rather drink straight out of my cup. He still gets formula in bottles, but has cows milk with cereal, yoghurt and cheese, so I'm not too worried about him missing out on calcium. He doesn't seem crazy about cows milk to drink by itself anyway.

Anyway... I really need to try and get this boy off to bed!