i might have to actually leave the house and go to a shop to get some LOL
PMSL Gracie! You and I are twin souls, I'm sure of it! I'm thinking I might check out the Target thing too (good tip Renee), starting to think towards 1st birthday, although I'm mostly trying to have a "Sustainable" xmas this year - only giving handmade/environmentally sound/recycled (ie op shop) gifts, using recycled newspaper wrapping and cards instead of all the dreadful cr@p I usually buy.

Another good night's sleep here, got up at 11.30, 2.45 (resettled again at 3.40) and then again at 6.45. Aaaah my brain function's returning.

Ha! just turned around and E is standing up hanging onto a side table. Busy Betty!!

High drama at my house this morning when H told me a girl (who she has been having problems with all year) told her yesterday that she is going to "scan the playground until I find you, take you up to the top oval and bash you." !!!!!!!! NOT OVER MY DEAD BODY. Regardless of whether they physical violence is going to take place, the use of threats and intimidation is unacceptable so i marched straight up to the school. The girl will be spending the next few lunchtimes in the "zone" which is where playground bullies go to learn about appropriate behaviour. H said to me, "but it's ok Mum, I've worked out if I go out the other door and run around the top path and down the front of the school she won't be able to find me"(!!) It's such a classic bullying scenario, a)that H feels she needs to sneak around in order to be safe and b) that H tried to tell me it was ok because she was worried about what this girl would do to her when she finds out H has "dobbed". But the school is really good and I know i can rely on them to follow up if there is any future intimidation. She can keep trying but by golly each and every time she tries to intimidate my H she will find herself excluded in the zone again Until She Gets It. I told H if the girl says anything nasty about dobbing H is to say "Your behaviour was unacceptable and I won't tolerate it" because it's a statement that restores the power back to H. The school is also going to work with H on some strategies to deal with this type of behaviour and have agreed to help her use that sort of language too. I feel exactly like a mother bear protecting her young this morning!