thanks for the articles agnes. we have good friends who live in monbulk too! the tulip festival is beautiful. i didn't get a chance to go this year but my ILs came down from Sydney for a couple of days to meet lewis and they went along (they are dutchies) and loved it. it always brings a lot of people to the hills. we notice a lot more traffic. yes i think we should organise a melb meet up for bbs!

sherie- i ended up putting lewis in the hab for a couple of hours and got all the dishes washed and a load of washing done. made some phonecalls and threw out all the rotten flowers smelling out our house! saved all the blue balloons of course. the hab really is a life saver isn't it?

i actually bought one of those safe and secure co sleepers but i'm thinking of returning it. we used it for one night but i hated it and couldn't sleep. it felt like there was a wall between me and dp and i just couldn't get comfy. you can't really bfeed them when they're in it either so i found it more of a nuisance than anything. hope they let me return it and get some other stuff! we'll see i guess.

thanks for all your advice guys. hoping lewis stops being so clingy over the next few weeks- or even gets less clingy to me and more clingy to dp so i can get a break!

wish i could have a friday night glass of wine ggrrr