Howdy,

Shan – don’t worry, I have no life either, just have been too tired to post!

Baby Crazy – wow, Jovi is an early teether, huh? Don’t let the doctors tell you it’s not teething though – because it’s so early I bet that they’ll say it isn’t, but YOU know her best and you know what’s going on. Hope she’s gaining weight well, but it sounds like she is.

Vic – YAY for your new ‘puter! That’s rad. Don’t worry, ours is relatively new too and I know how exciting it is, you’re not pathetic. Or, at least, if you are so am I. Sorry the kids are all crook too. I suppose it must always go through the whole family if one gets sick, worse luck. Oh well, they’ll all have excellent immune systems because of it.

Kim – Glad you enjoyed the wedding. A social outing must have been nice – wish I could get out too, and it’s nice to have an opportunity to dress up. Poor little Darcy with her sleeping too – maybe she’s going through a growth spurt like Toby. She sounds so strong! You’ll have an early crawler and walker on your hands, I bet. YES you can use ‘my words’ on your scrapbooking page, as long as you post a pic of it when you’re finished so I can see it. You scrapbookers are so clever. I wish I could be as creative as that.

Sheree – it’s always two steps forward and one step back with babies, so it sounds like Lachie’s being pretty normal! The smiles and giggles must be gorgeous. Good on you for getting another opinion too. Even though I hope it isn’t anything serious, at least if someone else diagnoses you early then you can get it fixed early too. You poor thing – how is your wound going? Re: no day being the same… I know, it sucks, but try to tell yourself that it’s only temporary and he can’t possibly cry forever. It seems to get me through anyway! Oh dear about what your friend told you… Toby will be a very violent boy then – sometimes it’s hard to get to him straight away when I have Charlie to run around after too. I think you need to take that kind of info with a grain of salt.

Well, we had a ripper of a night last night. For some reason, Toby just didn’t want to sleep. We eliminated all possibilities (hungry/nappy/wind) and couldn’t figure out for the life of us what was wrong with him. It was really upsetting because he usually settles so well, and I hated not being able to help him. Consequently we got about 3 hours of broken sleep, and poor Charlie kept being woken up by Toby’s crying, so we were all feeling great today! Oh well… in the end I’m just putting it down to one of those horrible growth spurts they go through. I remember having terrible growing pains as a teenager, and Toby must be going through that kind of pain x 100, so I understand. I just wish there was something I could do to help. We’ve dropped Charlie at Mum’s tonight in case Toby is the same tonight – I didn’t think it was fair for him to go through it to when there was an alternative for him. Toby was really upset still today and screamed for AGES – the only thing I could do was feed him to sleep in our bed, and he’s been asleep on and off since then (so have I, thank goodness, or I would barely be able to type from tiredness!). I’m just waiting for dinner to cook and letting DH have a sleep in there with him. Poor DH – he looked after Charlie all day while I was settling Toby, and didn’t get a sleep himself so I don’t want to wake him. Anyway, might go and start on the never-ending mountain of washing (it’s bigger than Everest at the moment) while all is calm. Have a lovely night, everyone.