Love the belly shots! Gee Nelly, it's amazing how you seemed to JUST get big in the belly, nowhere else. Yes, you did have a tiny pregnancy AJP, i wouldn't have guessed you were full term either!

if i could add an attachment from my desktop i would add a belly shot too, i'm too lazy to put one on photobucket or flickr.

i didn't get stretchie from pregnancy. But have plenty already from 20 years of my weight yo-yoing up and down (like a . . . . ). But i am getting stretch marks from breastfeeding the last year - purple marks in my cleavage - i put that down to not wearing underwire bras anymore. But i'm amazed no stretchmarks on tum - i did rub in Bio Oil when pregnant, more to make myself feel relaxed, rather than believing it would really prevent stretch marks.

Taralee - got any aloe vera hon? that's great (the sap) to cool sunburn. And keep drinking heaps of H2o. About the stab mixer - the reason i thought i should get a foodprocessor/blender - i was worried if i got a designated blender/stabmix - that that would only be useful for a certain period of time, and then i might want a food processor in a few months time (for the next stage of baby eating) and then that would be TWO items. Does that make sense?

Bilby is really too old for pureed food, but she keeps choking on the fruit i mash up with a fork, so i keep thinking i should be pureeing it for her. confused.

TRIED to take xmas photos tonight. Put her in red top, green nappy, on a red blanket, and then a pale green sheet. with bilbies, kangaroos, wombats, echidnas (but mainly bilbies!!!) God it was hard to get a shot with her NOT crawling, the FRONT of her head!!! she is always moving now!! and wants to be clinging onto one of us. got a bit cranky with dh over that. Plus our crappy camera has such a long time delay, you can SEE a great shot, by the time it takes it, she's turned around, so lots of back of head shots!!!

Did my fabric dyeing workshop today, I WAS FOUR HOURS AWAY FROM BILBY!!!!! first time ever!!!!!! Learnt heaps and dyed heaps of clothes for us all, playcloths for bilby (Steiner play idea), some boring nappies (they're not boring now!!!) and met some lovely people. It was presented so clearly and straightforward, i think it's something i could do at home myself. I couldn't get my head around the Procion Dyeing (too hard) and the RIT/DYLON stuff if easy but doesn't last, so i'm glad to find a good one. I have to wait until tomorrow afternoon to rinse the stuff out and wash it in the machine, i'm dying to see how it all turned out!!! It's like waiting for Xmas ha ha! i'm excited!

it was so lovely today, being under a big verandah, shaded by grapevines, ten buckets of dye, all of us having a lovely time dyeing rainbows. I think there MUST be something in colour therapy, these strong vibrant colours really do lift my spirits.