Rachel, I often let Claire sleep in her rocker or on the lounge during the day, especially if she is being a bit feral about the cot. If she is geting some sleep, no big deal right? How nice that Grace has rolled - Claire has rolled from her tummy to back but not from her back to tummy. How cute that she dribbles everywhere; Claire is such a dribbler too. How do you get her to stand? Do you just pick her up and then put her feet on the floor and hold her there (because thats what I do with Claire). just asking cos a particular in-law was grabbing Claires arms when she was lying down and pulling her up by her arms to a standing position - i thought she was going to pull her arms off but she seemed to think Claire liked it (you should have seen Claires face - she didnt like it one bit). Glad you had a nice time at the movies. I am hoping to go out and do that some time soon too! Its been a while since we went out, so i might get my parents to come over and baby sit one night!

Cass, The sort of good thing about the in-laws is that they dont live in Sydney so they cant just pop in whenever they want and give me 'advice' (omg i know that sounds bad doesnt it!) I am definately not starting solids just yet because of the risk of allergies this early and DH and I both have allergy type issues - he has asthma and I get nasty eczema which I think is related to certain foods but I havent been able to work out which ones, so the MHCN said to wait till 6 months if we can, so that is what I am going to do. The 4 months has gone so quickly! The vax thing in the back of the baby health book says 4 months, so I was just going to go at 4 calender months, cos to me a month is a month not 4 weeks and if I did it as a month being 4 weeks she would end up getting her 12 month ones at 11 months, if that makes sense?

Well we did a nice big cleanup at home today. It amazing how much rubbish we had lying around and I chucked out lots of stuff - we will definately have to work on that when Claire is more mobile! I can see her just getting into everything if we have too much stuff around. My lovely husband is going to build me a shelf - he is pretty handy with things like that. I want a new shelf for Claires room so I can put her stuff on it instead of piling it up on top of her chest of drawers.