Hello again!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CASS!! Bummer about getting AF for a present... hope that the rest of your day was good though!

Everyone else - I can't remember what you all said, as it's been a while, and I had to read a bit to catch up, but it sounds like everyone is all good.

Emy is hilarious - she started to roll on her 3 month birthday, but hasn't really gotten past that, and, once placed, she can sit up on her own for ages. But the last couple of days, she has been sitting, flopped down, rolled onto her tummy, and then started to do the parachuting thing with arms and legs completely off the floor. Then she goes head down, and kicks with her legs and does this wierd little movement where one foot goes over the other, then the bottom leg is straight, and she kind of kicks with her foot, and ends up going in circles. And then somehow manages to also goes backwards a bit too. And I don't think that she really wanted to do either thing! I spend so much of the day laugh at/with her!

We took her for her 6 month needles today, and she only cried a little bit, and J picked her up first, and then when she came to me she had a huge smile. WHat a champion! The GP also weighed her, and she is now about 7kgs. My neighbour has a little boy 3 weeks younger than Emy, and he weighs about 9.5 kilos, and all of our other friends babies are reallly big, and they all reckon that Emy is tiny. She has the cutest thigh fat rolls though, and none of those other babies have them, and never really have...

we have been busy getting ready for my mum's 60th which is this Thursday. My eldest sister lives in Wodonga, and haven't been up since my wedding last February, and so she and her 2 kids are comeing up as a surprise for mum. I can't wait to see Mum's face! Will also be good coz my sister has never met Emy or my other sisters 16 month old girl, so we should have a lot of fun! Then next Wednesday (the 10th) it's my 28th birthday!!! YAY!!! Except we have no money because of Jason's stupid car, so boo hoo... I hpe that I get something little to unwrap though. I like surprises!

Big bummer... I have to go back to work in 2 weeks time... and I really don't want to. I will be doing Monday and Tuesday late shifts (1pm-9:30pm), and mum will look after Emy, but then she should be well and truely asleep by the time i get to mums, and i won't get to give her a kiss and a cuddle. My other problem is that I am still breast-feeding her, but have been giving her a midday bottle of formula for the last couple of weeks, and have just started to give her a night time one as well, to try to get my boobs a bit used to going back to work, and away form her, but when I leave her with mum, then she will have to have 3 bottles in that time, and I will only be giving her 2 BF in the morning, and I don't know if my boobs will be able to handle going from about 11am Monday morning through to abour 8 am Tuesday morning. (We usually dont' have any overnight feeds, coz Emy has been a fantastic sleeper). My problem is whether to switch over completely to formula or not. I really like breastfeeding her, but I don't know how she (and my boobs!) will go when she is getting 3 bottles a day... Guess I will just have to try it and see how she goes, and reassess the situation in a couple of weeks... And make sure i take some breast pads to works with me!(i haven't had to use them in AGES!)

ANyway, it is really late now so must really go to bed.

HAve fun!