Everybody! Hope everybody is have a great time.
Becstar- Enjoy ur time at the beach house, sounds like a piece of heaven to me.
M2W- I also give bubs a spoon if Im going to attempt to do it that way. He would love to feed himself but as its winter here there is NO chance of that happening yet, will wait till summer then he can do it and make all the mess he likes, no trouble to change a singlet and nappy

Its getting really cold here now. Last year this is when we had the freak snow storm for 5 days. Wonder if it will snow this year? Its kinda rewarding when its so cold to have snow. DS2 has stopped going to kindy for about a month of holidays- chinese new year. Here they start kindy at 2, 5 days a week 8am-3.40pm. Its sounds hard out and I wasnt really sure about sending him for so long, but its better that hes there playing with kids his own age, learning stuff. Also alot of the kids here are looked after by the grandparents so its better for them to be at kindy then hang around the old people who just sit and talk all and hold the kids, if they go for a walk, they hold the kids, they spoon feed the kids, do everything for the kids. Not a great enviroment.
Here, when you have a new baby, they never put them down unless to sleep, no tummy time etc. My MIL had a hard job with me doing tummy time with Ollie, thought it was mean etc. When we had his 3/4 mth check doc said it was the 1st baby she had EVER seen that could hold his head up at that age. I was shocked , its pretty normal I thought, but I have since seen 12mth old babys that cant sit up by themselves, just always held and supported.
I dont know what to make of this kind of thing. Now I have learn to just accept that its how it is here and I cant change it. But some things you see never sit well- u know what I mean