Hi Girls - I'm almost ready to launch Cutie Hooties, had my logo designed and I love it - my sister did the drawing and then got a graphic designer to do it on the computer, my sister is old school artist ha ha. Funny though as this graphic designer told me after I scanned and sent her the drawn pic of what I wanted how clever she is and she wished she could draw like that. Obviously graphic artists aren't what they used to be lol! But she's also helping me do a welcome page etc so just writing a little promo/spiel now. I'm not very good at talking myself up and I'm so scared I'm going to give people high expectations ha ha - but seriously, we will have some great things, as orders come in it will be better as we'll have more pics to put up, for starters I'm just doing one boy one girl so people can get an idea, don't want to go mad if no-one wants them, besides, we are doing custom orders as well so don't want to waste the paper, it's not cheap and I want to keep our prices down so it's affordable to people. So, watch this space, of course my immediate friends (aka you guys) will all get mates rates so don't be shy if you want something!

Hi BS - OMG Eva is such a good girl, sleeping in her big bed all night, how amazing and such a relief for you. I can't wait to see pics of her bedroom, if the rest of your house is anything to go by it's going to be amazing! With the leaf canopy, they had two at the head of the bead an they kind of overlapped each other, one was slightly higher than the other if that makes sense, looked really cool so I'm going to do the same, eventually! Yay on getting more pics, you would look gorgeous in a paper bag so I don't know what you're worried about, looking forward to seeing those too! Thanks for the nice comments about my weight, I guess time has come now so I don't want to risk putting off getting pregnant any longer in case it takes a while, I'm no spring chicken, 38 in June, yikes that's old! Like you said, hopefully I won't put too much on during the pregnancy and can go on a massive really really try hard exercise regime afterwards. My friend did that, waited until she'd had her 2nd, in fact, I saw her today, her youngest just turned 3 and she is looking amazing, the skinniest I have ever seen her and I've been friends with her for 25 years! What an inspiration.

Hi Beany - Amelia's the same, she likes to roam around nowadays, it's a bit of a trick getting her to sit still for too long, I think our little ones are just very inquisitive! How is Michael's sleeping going? I've found since Amelia has been ill on and off (well now touch wood) her sleeping has gone to the dogs. She's been waking at night again, anywhere from 1.30 to 4.00 am and she won't self settle. She calls out for me and if I go in I can resettle her with a 5/10 min cuddle, but if I ignore it she wakes up more and takes an hour to get back to sleep. I'm hoping this is just a stage as it's driving me bonkers! Also, her day sleeps I'm lucky to get 1.5 hours out of her, all my friends bar one kids are having 2-3 hours! What's Michael having on his day sleep? I know they're all different but I find it hard to believe she went from 2 x 1.5 hour sleeps to 1 x 1.5 hour at most....the last 2 days I was out and if I'm not home by 11.00 am she falls asleep in the car or pram and wakes up when I get home, then she only has 30/45 mins max! I wonder if that's contributing to her not sleeping as well at night as she used to. Either way, I hope it ends soon, it's hard juggling a toddler with a broken nights sleep and work and the house duties and trying to get Cutie Hooties up and running ha ha. Welcome to the world of motherhood huh!

Hi Suz - of course we chat on FB all the time but I'm so excited about your house etc. Can't wait to hear that you sold yours for the asking price, or maybe even more, that would be nice! I didn't see the red chairs at Ikea, maybe they've changed colours now, you can get pink or blue. I might go back and get 2 blue ones at some point, they're such a great idea aren't they, easy to clean and sturdy. Amelia quite easily gets on and off without too much hassle.

Hi Everyone else, how are you all? How are your beautiful little kiddies going? Can you believe we're heading to the 18 month mark, my goodness girls, where has time gone, it's actually a bit scary how fast it goes. We're definitely going to start trying for number 2 next month, I'm so darn scared, scared of morning sickness - don't know how I'll cope with that and a toddler AND work, scared of coping, scared of getting fat, scared of going back to 3 hourly feeds, gosh listen to me, should I be doing this, are all these fears normal? lol

xx