aw Vicki, Laura is nine months older than my stepdaughter, she has only just stopped asking if daddy and mommy AND ME (the stepmum!!!) could all live in the same house! It's so hard to explain adult r'ships to a kid. They just want everyone to be happy together, hugs to you Vicki.

Glad you got nice swimmers (and the accessories too, go Vicky!!). You're right about the mummy body. I have gone back to my pre-pregnancy weight but have lost my high butt and cannot budge the tum. I know i should be grateful the kgs have gone, but i still feel a funny shape, and hate being touched where the c-section scar is, it's still sensitive. (not very nice for dh when he's just being loving).

We have bought a rectangle playpen to make up for not being able to make any rooms baby proof, and that's working. It's big enough that we adults can get in there too and sit n play with bilbs at her eye level.

i love watching bilbs light up, do her clapping (one open palm, one fist) and flap around like a little seagull, when the theme songs for the children's tv shows come on (yeh ABC). We're hopefully starting the "Move N Groove Playgroup" next term, it's like Kindermusik classes but low cost.

Bilbs has had bright pastel yellow (think banana custard) bubbly business the last few days, erupting in duck squirts. SHe's not drinking much from me (very unusual for her), not interested in solids (yes, even less than she already wasn't very interested full stop). Even getting her faves down her e.g pureed peach, is a real effort now. i look out for signs of dehydration, not many wet nappies, but no sunken fontanelle. she's Been wanting to sleep during day for a change, and very clingy, sooky. Bonjella and baby panadol have been our life raft. Funnily enough, the panadol isn't wrecking our nappies, like i read it does for other people. Maybe it's because bilbs doesn't have solid motions yet.

2.30am, think i'll attempt to go to bed now, maybe bilbs will sleep til 5am if i'm lucky.