Hi everyone...feels like ages since I've been in here and I can't keep track of what has been happening!

We are all going great guns here. Grace is just so clever and cheeky and adorable. She understands quite a few things now and will do things you ask her to. If I ask her to get her shoes..she will wander off and come back with her shoes...I told her the other night to go and get a book and we will read and she wandered off and came back with a book...I asked her to put the book back on the box after we had read it and she did! Very exciting. She still has 4 lonely little teeth but another two are trying to get out, they are just taking their sweet time....I hope they come out soon as she is wandering around with a constantly wet top from her dribbling, poor thing, and we seem to have taken a step back when it comes to her dummy...finally got her off the dummy in the daytime but since this teething has started again she is dependent on the dummy again..not for sucking, she just loves to chew on it. She is constantly chewing on her teddy,...it smells so bad!! lol!! She has started to feed herself her dinner at night, I try to give her as much as I can before she cracks it and wants to help, then the mess starts, she needs a fair bit of help of course but she gets really excited when she gets the spoon and food into her mouth. Her walking is going along brilliantly, she is almost running these days, hence she is far more confident with it too which means a few more tumbles! Have had the odd unsettled night lately but I think that has to do with her teething, plus she had a cold last week so that wouldn't help.

Is anyone else's kids getting night terrors? We think Grace is getting them occasionally, luckily they are not regular but gosh they are horrid when they happen, poor thing.

What are you all doing with your bottles/BFs? Grace still has a morning bottle and an evening bottle..but..she doesn't always drink it all (morning better than night), sometimes it takes a very long time as she just isn't that interested in it at all. We have changed from the avent teats to the avent sippy cup teats on the bottles and she is doing better with that now, but i'm sure it won't be too long before she cuts the morning one out...MCHN said they just need 3 serves of dairy a day so if she doesn't have a decent bottle I make it up some other way...not concerned, just curious as to what is happening in your world of milk. She LOVES her food, so we have no troubles there. Brushing her teeth is another story...she isn't so keen on this since she has started teething, which is a PITA, but we keep persisting.

There are 4 ladies in my mum's group of 8 pregnant now! One is 22/40, another is 19/40, 15/40, 8/40....they keep saying who is next and i'm like don't look at me!! Other than Bec, is there any other ladies preggo that I have missed (too hard to keep up with all your chatter?). Anyone currently TTC? We aren't looking at TTC until the end of the year...definitely have to shift this weight first...it's so hard though!

Anyway, sorry for the ramble, hope everyone is doing well. Can't believe how fast they are growing up. Take care. xx