Bugger! I posted yesterday and it didn't go through

Heya Ange! I hope the paper work stuff is straightforward for you. Do you feel like you are starting to get some semblance of normalcy back? LOL at Lu only wanting to hold the tail - maybe Mum should wear the backpack?

Oh G! THat's terrible you feel so crappy. I hope you're better today. It could be some retained product from the birth? How was your lochia and have you had an af at all? But definitely get it checked out, we don't want you getting really sick.

Arte, I have no idea what I can offer you to help hun. Some kids are just going to be a little more extreme in their normal development, I know that much. Erin was a lot like W is and the only think that would work was completely ignoring her (still does work ROFL). It eased by the time she was 2. But she was and is my most difficult child. Alisters issues are more about him finding his place in the family kwim? The girls love to antagonise him just for the fun of it, so a lot of what he does is reaction to that.

PP, awww hun, that would be hard for you to hear him say taht to you, but I don't think he's rejecting you at all, probably more that he is a bit more independent of you now kwim?

MD, So how many pinkies are left today?

Ohhhh Gypsy, I really like that. When any of the kids has done that, I always did the crocodile tears and made out I was upset that they hurt me and they realised that yeah, maybe smacking someone really does hurt and it's not funny.

What I posted yesterday was that I will have everything crossed for Clare at the auction on Saturday and hope she will be a home owner by the end of it.

We aren't having problems with the walking or anything, but then he doesn't really get to do much of it cause he's fine until you have to let him go to pay for something etc and then he buggers off. He is still happy to be in the stroller and he is happier to be held than to walk, so I use the pouch a lot, but it's getting too small now so I brought a babyhawk mei tei from Melbel so that will give us another few years. Plus I can wear him on my back with that one if I need to. When all of us are out it's easier to wear him than have to take the stroller, especially if we are going shopping etc.

Alisters thing atm is to follow Lindsay EVERYWHERE! He thinks the sun shines out of his bum and asks for him all the time when he's at school and he gets soooo excited when he comes home. It's really cute to see the way he completely adores him. And he copies what he does too. I worried that the age gap between them would mean that they weren't that close, but Lindsay is so good with him. And Lindsay is just growing up too fast now *sigh* DH taught him to weld the other day, so he's been helping weld fence posts after school and he gets the sheep in the yards on his own now. At least I still have the girls who love to play house with their dolls and colour in and do things little girls should do.