Hello took the kids to Magnetic Island today and I got sooooo sunburnt, typical made sure the kids were literally slathered in the stuff and forgot about little old me. everyone seems a little sunkissed tonight though - I hate going out in the middle of the day but it's hard to avoid when you're on an island all day :-) Ari is really starting to want to walk - she took her first unprompted steps today (a whole 2) before falling down - it is so amazing how much she WANTS to walk - my son couldn't have given 2 hoots about walking we had to push him all the way.

Mel - I thnk the usual concenus is if there not crawling by 12mths it could indicate a delay but as Cass said sometimes having older siblings means they don't have the need to crawl as much - it also depends on their personality. Ari was itching to crawl from the day she was born :-) She also started pulling up on things the same time she started to crawl. My son didn't start crawling until 10mth and that was with an awlful lot of encouragement but he has a developmental delay. However one of my friends little boys didn't crawl until he was nearly 11mth and he has no issues with development??? Each little bundle is their own little person I suppopse. I bet he will start this week just because you've mentioned it :-)

Bec - Oh sending you lots of ANTI-MS vibes (brrr that is def one thing that helps when I think about having another - 10mth of ms - yuck!)

Karina - that's awesome that the daycare is good! we have been taking Ari this week and staying with her just so she can gete used to the ladies there - she loves it! So many new things to play with. She ws a little overwhelmed by the other kids but we haven't been to many playgroups. Bugger about work - mine are similar in that they will only put me on part-time this year and then I have to reconsider for next year. hope you work it out.

Well off to a course fot the next four days -MIL is looking after the kids - should be interesting will fill you in more about the saga at a later time (ie when she has gone home :-)