Just quick one, but I thought if I didn’t post today there would be too much to catch up on! As it is I don’t know whether I’ll get to everyone’s posts, but I’ll try…

Shan – no, I don’t hate you! That’s awesome news about your weight. Sorry to hear that you’re still getting some pain – hopefully it abates soon. Sounds like Matt is doing really well – any chance we could see some pics?

Ange – Can’t believe Katerina is almost 2 months old! Wow. Re: exercise – walking is such a great thing to do and I bet Katerina will love it. It’s nice to get out in the fresh air too. Re: sleep – I know Toby is a bit younger than Katerina, but I just let him sleep when he wants to at this stage. He usually has two awake periods in the day, one longer one in the morning and a short one in the early evening, but if he’s just too tired to stay awake I don’t force it. As Vic (I think) said, it’s good to have them feeding more in the day than night. If you are going to try a specific method, make sure you give it a bit of time to work, like a few days. It doesn’t always work in the first night. Good luck with the Tizzie thing – let us know how it goes.

Karen – yay for Phoebe liking music! I totally approve. Charlie really liked Bach’s Piano Preludes and Fugues for some reason. Poor little Toby doesn’t really even know that Mummy is a musician because I haven’t had a chance to practice for months! Bugger about your car too. Hope it doesn’t take long to be fixed.

Sheree – right, I need the name of your gyno so I can go an open a can of whoop-arse on his butt. I wonder if he had listened to you in the first place whether you might have been able to get help and recover more quickly. Bastard. Hope you’re able to sort out the stuff with Lachie too. It must be really frustrating now, I’m sure, but once you get to the root of the problems things will be much better.

Lea – poor little Em! It’s so bad when things like that happen and you don’t know what’s wrong. Lucky it seemed to be nothing too serious. Hope you don’t have another ‘incident’ like that!

Vic – sorry to hear that you’ve got sicky bubs. Hope that it passes soon.

Kim – enjoy your wedding! I wish I had more to go to, although my brother is getting married in October and I have to plan the hen’s night because I’m a bridesmaid. Scary stuff. Was it you that was saying you had a couple less to lose than me? Maybe we can have a race! And it’s great that you’re walking everyday – I am too and it feels so good!

Shazz – glad you enjoyed the movies. It’s really nice that you got to do that with your older kids. How are you going? Seems like you’ve been a bit AWOL lately. Hope you’re well.

Well, still enjoying the time off with DH. We left Charlie with Mum last night and went out with Toby to a friend’s house for dinner, where we ended up singing dorky ****tail piano songs (Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, Big Spender, etc.) around the piano. Was very funny. I’m taking Toby out to see my best friend for afternoon tea tomorrow, then we’re staying at Mum’s for the night so that Charlie and DH can have some time together. Charlie has been really good about everything and it’s nice for him to have a bit of extra attention lavished on him occasionally. Toby’s been pretty good too – settles well and is very cute except for when he has wind pain. Looking forward to when he starts sleeping longer between feeds, but it’s fine as long as he settles quickly at night each time.

Anyway, can hear a crying boy. Will try to visit again tomorrow so I don’t have so much to catch up on! Hope you’re all well.