Hi all!
Hope everyone's recovered from their festivities, ready for the next lot! We've had an eventful week... lots of people, music, animals, accidents and adventures! There have been at least 25 people here, camping and partying at my mum's place in the rainforest, for the last four days. We had a marquee and live music, and way too much food! DS is crawling, eating grass, and being a bit feral. He has one top tooth cut thru now, and that's made him pretty wretched but there's been heaps of people here to give him cuddles and distract him! The other day he was napping on the bed, and he woke up and climbed over the pile of pillows around him and crashed onto the floor. That was a pretty sickening noise, something I don't want to hear again. But he wasn't hurt, and recovered from the fright after a few tears and a warm bath. DP panicked tho! I had to keep him calm too, even tho I was freaked out as well. Panic doesn't help anyone. The next day, DP was washing DS up in the bathroom and DS grabbed at the razor in someone's toiletry bag that was hanging near the towels! There was nothing to be seen at first, so DP brought him back to the partying, but then I noticed there was blood all over his hand. It was just a tiny cut, and DS didn't even feel it, but it was bleeding everywhere. Scary.
Also, he's finally started saying "mum". He waited till we were in the middle of a crowded supermarket and just started yelling "mumumumumum" really loud cheeky kid.
Despite all the madness and chaos, we've managed to get back to an almost bearable sleeping routine, and he's been sleeping thru a few times. But going to bed at 7 or 7:30 and waking up at 4:30 is a bit of a pain. My mum's partner is a musician, and just gets home from his gigs at about 3, so we're hardly seeing much of him. I'm trying to get DS onto QLD time and keep him awake a bit later, but it's hard. At least he's sleeping, and managing to have good naps too. It will be interesting trying to get him to sleep in his cot when we get home tho.

Anyway, I'm not going to comment on the whole Christmas thing coz nothing surprises me anymore. I'll just say that I think people are weird, and there's something about this time of year bringing out the very worst in family members, it seems! I'm glad we don't get into it much in our family. I don't have the patience or required tact to bite my tongue and behave myself!

Girl - I think Yasmeenia needs more sleep! For your sake, and hers I can't help with the settling ideas, since DS feeds to sleep at night as part of our routine (and my mum says I was the same!) but I think having a routine of sorts is really helpful. Just little things that tell Yasmeenia that it's time to quieten down, relax and go to sleep, and that it's ok to sleep. Good luck!

OK, time for breakfast! BBL maybe, in a few days! Happy new year, ladies!