Hi everyone,
Well, today is a better day than Friday. I felt awful all day... mostly the nausea is morning and evening, although if I get hungry it gets worse at any time. Ginger beer is my friend!! LOL

Sebastian is really making some strides in his development in the last week or so. On Monday he woke up from his morning nap, suddenly able to clap and to pull himself up to stand! He'd done that a couple of times before but not over and over... and now he won't stop! It will be a while before he can walk though. Then yesterday he started to feed himself the grapes I cut up for him, since then he's fed himself banana and as I type this he's sitting next to me in the high chair eating carrot (although that is not such a big hit... I'm trying to wean him off having so much fruit though as he seems to be getting a bit of a sweet tooth )

Ali, congratulations on Emy walking - what a clever girl! S is getting one of his eye teeth and it is giving him a really hard time - more than any of the others put together I think! Hopefully it will come through soon.

Karina, I'm sure they make the FAO website too hard to deal with so that people just give up and don't bother claiming! Just applying for the baby bonus last year made me pull my hair out. Especially since DH wasn't born here so they want to know all sorts of stuff like when he came over and what the name of the aeroplane or ship was? WTF?!! And it's not like they don't have his details on file anyway... but enough said about them - just letting you know it's not just you!! I can't remember if I said congrats on getting into uni and your workplace sounds just stupid Hope you can get something else a bit more flexible.

We're not going to have a party for S, but we're having a combined one with playgroup for all the babies. I might bake him a little cupcake or something and hopefully my parents will be able to come up then, if it has rained. They haven't seen him in ages, that reminds me, I have to send some photos to them.


Hey Mel, good on Cooper for almost crawling, once he starts you'll wish he was still just sitting there LOL

Shell, I really hope your bad luck has run its course. I've never heard of Sarah's suggestion but it can't hurt!

Cass, that sounds like a good idea to do the environment thing. I'm hoping to get our compost going again soon and start up the vegie garden out the back. It's so hot right now though I'm waiting till it cools down otherwise the plants will just get sunstroke (and I might too!) S is getting a bit more independent now too, often he will be happy playing by himself while I wash up or do some other stuff... almost makes me sad for when he was 6 months younger, when he was just all cuddles and smiles!

Richelle, S likes to fiddle with himself as well during nappy changes and in the bath. I remember from changing my niece and nephew that my nephew was always worse - it was hard work getting the nappy done up without having a hand down there as well LOL S throws tantrums but usually only when he's really tired, it's one of the ways I know he needs a nap! I don't know about terrible twos, I think he'll be throwing whopper tanties by then!

Sarah, I think it's a great idea to talk about Xander's ASD; the more people who know about it, hopefully the more understanding they'll be towards him. Hope Ari settles into daycare soon.

Anyway, I had better go, somehow it's 4:15 already (we had a bit of a break in between, and then my mum rang... it was about 3:30 when I started this LOL) Ultrasound this week so I'll let you all know how it went!

Best,
Bec