Trish - how cool that Joel will be 22 when you are 40! I reckon when kids get into their 20's, it's when you really can benefit from having such a small age-gap, iykwim? Hooray for your sleep in the other day! Sounds like it was really needed too. Glad you were able to make the most of it (since it is such a rare occasion for Mummy's!!).

Fi - awww poor Jenna! What's going on with her poor mouth? Sounds like the poor little thing is in the wars. Yay for the Huggies tent. Always good when a new toy arrives. Hope you got some baking done.

We have finished painting the kitchen. While I think we did a good job for our first painting effort, it's still a little dodgy in parts. We're hoping no-one looks too closely at it, LOL. The colour isn't quite what we were expecting either. Still looks ok tho.
Gab was such a good girl while we were working over the last couple of days. She didn't once touch any of the wet paint and was happy just to play with sandpaper or the giant screwdriver (we took that off her when she started running around the house, wielding it above her head, LOL).
It was Neil's birthday yesterday and he didn't want a huge fuss made so we just kept on painting. It got to about 11am when he finally cracked and said to Gabby (but really to me).. "Did you at least get Daddy a card?". I waited another few hours before I got Gabby to take his card out to him. Wanted to stir him up a bit, hehehe. We made him a card with a picture of he and Gabby on the front. That cheered him up a little. We ordered Indian for dinner and watched Seinfeld with a bottle of bourbon. Apparently it was one of the best birthday's ever!! LOL.