So great to hear all your updates!

BAL, can't believe it's been a year. Yay to you and Jett, but I best there's mixed emotions as you look back and remember this time last year. I give DD2 water in a sippy cup, I just use a Tupperware cup with its spout, same as I did for DD1. Makes the cup transition easier down the track, easy to drink from and hold (as it's narrow) and easy to get clean.

As for bfs, I think DD2 has about 7 a day? Hard to tell, because we cosleep for a portion of the night and she doesn't really disturb me if I feed her then. During the day she's having three meals and morning and afternoon tea with us, but she doesn't always eat much. Sometimes heaps goes down, sometimes not much (especially if she's tired).

She is fairly strong willed and good at getting her point across! She pats my chest for boobie now, which I did for DD1 too (at least she can be clear if that's what she wants). She is getting around and into things, but not quite crawling. She can stand if she is near something she can pull herself up on, or if we hold her though. I'm not rushing it, DD1 could crawl and cruise by now so I know how much more you need to watch them once they're totally mobile. Lol

DD2 is quite long and already in size one bodysuits. But I'm pretty sure she's slowed down in weight gain. Although carrying her around on one arm makes it sore, so thank goodness for babywearing!

Enjoying this stage so much, I can see her starting to move beyond babyhood all too quickly. I know she wants to be able to follow her big sister around soooo badly though that I'm looking forward to her actually being able to do so.