Hiya ladies!!

i am needing some 'time out' at the moment as i have to give a paper this evening at uni...eeeeeeeppppp! slightly nervous as it is my first at this uni in front of these people...and also i am bummed because it wont finish until 6.30 and i KNOW that leila is not going to be happy when i get home...

great to hear from you Renee! and yes, it was quite the feat for me to get the ticker thing up and running. computers are definitely not my forte! and i would LOVE leila to do commando crawling like Rory! lol, that sounds hilarious!
you gotta love the mum days! always a much needed outlet to vent!

MD: yeah i make lorenzo do all the cooking. there is no way that i can make risotto fluffy and light...mine are all like bricks, and he just ends up laughing at it!! and i figure i married him, i might as well enjoy the benefits of the italian lifestyle and that most definitely includes the eating! and what are the sippy cups? leila has the no leak one but is getting frustrated at how hard it is to get the reward...need to find an alternative.

oh Noni you had a much better night than me by the sounds of it! leila slept until 3am but decided to get up and not go down without a fight. it's really unusual for her as she has been sleeping through (fairly consistently) since 8 weeks and has never struggled to go to sleep. i guess it's all the new tricks that she is learning (especially sitting up in her cot and banging the rails! )...12 kgs that is fantastic!! man i stacked it on when i got pg. i think i hit the 15kg mark...they made me get weighed when i was in labour (how shocking!). luckily i am starting (but only starting egad!) to get back in my pre bub jeans. tops are still a bit wacky, but i am trying to tell myself thats because of the all the bf...i live in eternal hope! maybe i should go to the pool and do some laps; i find that is the only excersise i can tolerate.

Agnes i feel for you! leila was exactly the same. she got to the point where if she saw the bottle she would start screaming...one of the ways we conquered her was to practice at home; i would give her a bit of boob and then when the immediate hunger had worn off, i would pop in the bottle (it worked really well when she was in the 'milk coma' state - you know when they go all relaxed...). that kind of the broke the ice.
and the weather was great! i found we got too hot (can u believe?!) and so we popped into the library to see what jemima puddle duck and curious george were up to. although leila started getting really excited and her squeals were echoing off the back walls - not exactly great library manners!

Hayley: congrats to Maddie! they think they are so cool when they do it dont they?! the cheeky little monsters! lol! how brave of you to have all the mums at your place. i can barely fit one pram into the terrace let alone a whole swathe of them! do you have to prepare food and drinks or is it shared? sorry the q's. we are just starting out on our own and we need playgroup ideas...and a venue (but that is turning out to be complicated...baby boom = no baby room!
and yeah, as i said to MD above, the food is definitely a bonus when marrying an italian (it also helps that both he and his brother are trained chefs back in italy...and they are competitive so when we go back there are always cook offs...i am the willing food critic LOL!!)

anyway best be off as this is raging outta control!