Gracie, I miss my tractor too. We had a bit of a mix up with the new me and it was saved over the top of my tractor one. I am getting it sorted out though.

Noni, Erin was only slightly heavier, but a bit shorter than Asha at that age (I just looked in her book LOL) and I can remember those gorgeous chubby little thighs well LOL. Noni, I thought about giving it another go with Alister when he was about 8wks to see if I could even get milk, but I just do not have the time to give to it. I know that might seem a little selfish, but I just don't without seriously neglecting the house and possibly the other kids. Plus I would have to stop the BCP too. Good luck though if you try, if you can make it work you will be so proud of yourself.

Arte, did your DH get his drama sorted out? Fingers crossed the next open house goes better, but I wouldn't worry about this first one so much, it's January and people might not be that keen to buy just yet kwim? It's only another month till Alisters dermatologist appointment (feb 13) so hopefully we can get a better plan in place for it. I did try the lactose free formula for two weeks, but that didn't change it, so its not lactose, but I am loathe to try a soy based one as I don't like soy (most of it is GM). His skin is looking good ATM though from the cream I do have for it. It could jsut be one of those things that don't have a cause.

We didn't get the dust storm in the end - we did end up with 10mm of rain, which we didn't need because we've got hay cut on the ground, and now it will probably just go mouldy, and open trenches for this power upgrade that all filled with water. So DH wasn't a happy camper when he got home from work, but I did phone and tell him when it was raining though.

Alister is still only in infant nappies, and probably still will be for a while yet. He is just so long and lean - he is probably a smidge over 7kg now which is nearly exactly average, but he is 68cm long at last measure, so way above average height. He is slowly starting to get the tabs further apart on them though LOL. I remember when Lindsay was this age, he was nearly 8kg and only slightly shorter, and he was in toddler nappies LOL (but huggies have an extra size these days so the size ranges were different then). We aren't having any leakage issues yet with them, so it's OK for now. The crawler ones are too wide - the tabs overlap a little when I put one on him.