Tan - that's great news that James is sleeping so well and I'm so glad that Izzy loves her little brother. Yay for a new kitchen - makes such a big difference to how your house looks. Very exciting.

Lis - your retail therapy sounds so lovely. I've gone a bit nuts with dresses for Izzy this year - I bought her a few last summer but she never wore them because she always looked so uncomfortable crawling in a dress.

Hi to everyone else. Hope everybody is well.

Izzy has now got all her eye teeth and molars. She has been so incredibly good while they've been coming through. Like somebody said (sorry, forgot who) her eye teeth are so sharp and she keeps getting a cut lip the poor little poppet. She is so thrilled now that Elena is really starting to play with her - Ellie gets all excited because she can crawl to catch up with Iz, and Iz squeals with delight when she does. I'm finally looking at my girls and being really happy to have two kids. Ellie is seriously out of control - is now furniture cruising. Her development has been so fast. Iz had her 18 month check the other day and is still such a tiny flea - which she proved on the weekend by squeezing herself out through the bars of our front gate. I was sitting on the bench with Ellie and looked down for I think 3 seconds and Iz had managed to slot herself out the gap and run around to find her daddy doing the gardening out on the verge. Very scary how fast it all happened.

Also, don't know if anyone else is finding it by Iz is soooooooo excited at all the Christmas decorations in the stores now. She sits in her pram and points and chatters about everything she sees. I'm so excited about Christmas this year. Its going to be so much fun.

Anyway, better go and tidy up the war zone - nothing like having two mobile bubs to create some serious chaos!