Hi ladies, thanks for all your support re the "H issue". I'm going up to the school to see the exec teacher (they have a person whose entire job it is to deal with such issues so the more I think about it it's something endemic at the school). Quite surprised she hasn't rung me after everything H said last week...

Pregpan. Chin up chicckie, you have BALI to look forwards to!!! Look it's sunday - it's NEXT WEEK already LOL. Re the magneatos, is it a choking concern (had a look online but can't work out how small the ballshaped pieces are)? Really small magnets can perforate their insides if they swallow 2 or more (that's why the polly pocket stuff was recalled last year) but these don't look little like that. Could you take the small bits out and just let him play with the big stick bits?

Rainy - ah cabin fever! Definitely shop some more over the internet, that'll fix it. Works for me . We've got E a buzzybee wheelybug, would've loved a ladybird but buzzy's next best thing. Plus it was a bargain. Also thinking of getting E a boikido walker, she already has a plastic fantastic but the boikido's more like a wagon that she can put things in, kwim? Also want to get some of their wooden blocks, they're just gorgeous. Really want the HABA ones but can't justify spending nearly $100 on a small set of wooden blocks. But they are even gorgeouser.

Dh shares the same fundamental inability to choose baby clothes. I've even laid them out before and he's still dressed her in the wrong thing LOL.

AFM, we went out for brunch today (only to escape DD1 nagging me to make pancakes when I'm actually feeling too exhausted) and I was happily feeding E bits of toasted blueberry bagel, thinking what a good idea the bagel was, when she suddenly sprouted a rash on her chin. *sigh* I gave her grapes yesterday, so along with the mandarine bum-rash it looks like she might be a bit sensitive to salicylates. Hoping this passes cos I'm sick of giving her apple and pear and banana, I was hoping to get her going on some other fruit. Looks like we might have to proceed a bit more slowly. Serves me right for eating too many mandarines when I was preggers I s'pose.