Dee - OMG CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! How exciting. I'm so very happy for you and DH. Sounds like Lachlan had a lovely birthday party.

Nickel - Happy birthday to Ruby for the 16th! I must have missed that one on the list!

Jess - great news on the house, you must have so much more room now. I'm sure the kids love it too. Good luck with school holiday planning. I might be asking you for advice next year when Chelsea starts school.

Amanda - how awful about losing the photos! But IK is right, nothing can take away whats in your head and heart. Did anyone else take any that you can have? I always get my SIL to take extra photos as she has a better camera than me! Hope Cody and Wyatt are doing better.

7th - that poor little boy! Some kids can be such ar$eholes! I hope your girls learn to turn the other cheek and ignore the rude comments. Sounds like you are making good progress on your work. You are doing a great job, and look for the big bright light at the end of the tunnel, not long to go!

IK - sounds like you are in full on study mode! It must be a huge relief to have MIL take Oscar and get some proper study done. Not long for you either.

Bath - we have had a mostly sunny day here today, not the horrible 11 they forecast (thank god!). Still very crisp outside though, hope you manage to venture out.

Had a GF over for lunch today with her DS so Chelsea was very happy. She bought Marley a gorgeous set of baby maracas and a miniature tamborine from Gippettos (I thought of you straight away IK!) in the Dandenongs. They are so divine and Marley loves them, she is banging them with the hugest smile on her face!!! Kids got to play outside for a while as the sun was shining. They did some gardening, shovelling dirt from one side of the garden to the other.

My GF has a dilema that I thought you guys could help with. She is currently pregnant with #2, due start of August. Her DS is called Oskar and her and her DH like the name Felix for this bub (it is a boy), but she is worried about the whole "Odd Couple" comparisons, Felix and Oscar. For me, when she asked me if I liked Felix (which I do love), the first thing I though of was the Odd Couple TV show. She laughed as thats what she thought too. What do you all think?