Andie - Haha dont worry my shopping spree was short lived. It was back to the op shop today!! We are just trying to be very careful with our money lately, seeing as we have a few big expenses coming up. Not to mention we want another child late next year. Had to laugh at Alex saying crap. How do you go on your own during a blackout? I would freak out big time.

MD - Yep we do the wake up at anywhere between 4 and 6, have a feed, and back to bed as well. If its a decent hour (6ish) I have tried to keep her up but she is just a grumpy tired girl. Its amazing what an extra hour or two can do!

Nella - I've done the mixing of pasta sauce through veges as well as suggested by MD, its a hit. With pasta, I find now M wants to feed it to herself. I buy the big kids shapes in the pasta section and cook them up, mix a bit of sauce through, and she just helps herself as finger food. The other night I even mixed just mashed potato & pumpkin through pasta shapes and she loved them. Other meal ideas: tuna patties, risotto, canelloni, lasagne, fish fillets. I also give M alot of finger food steamed veges, like pumpkin pieces, potato etc. I must admit lately I have been lacking on ideas for her and she has been having alot of the same foods. She usually has what we have, but I've been a bit slack lately and just been doing tacos and easy bang it together meals lol. We need pregpan to come in and post some of her fabo meal ideas, she is a wizz in the kitchen. Yes my parents are on holidays, they bought a camper van thingo and have just been driving around randomly. So they got on a boat and ended up in Tassie lol. As for daycare, M has never had a problem settling in (touch wood) and she just loves it. I'm sure L will be fine, might take some time but he will love it eventually.

Trillian - Poor you all these blood tests, just as bad as being up the duff!

Arte - Aww sleep walking how gorgeous, maybe not so much for you in the middle of the night though.

Rainy - Yep I always have the issue of going out and working around M's sleep. She wont ever sleep in her pram either which is a pain. We are down to one sleep a day and its usually between 12 and 2 so I just kind of work around that.

Bit worried about M tonight. Her teeth have been giving her trouble all day, and just after her bath a whole heap of gunky stuff came out of her ear. I really hope it isnt an ear infection!? Just as well I made an appt during the week for next Wed to see the doc before we go to Melb, I wanted to get her ears checked. However if it is an infection I am worried about having to wait that long to see someone about it, poor thing. I guess I will keep an eye on her tomorrow and if need be I can run down to the children's hospital and see what they say.