Liviam your William shares a birthday with Ash. It's quite funny, he's also discovered his doodle recently. Loves to play with it, mind you he doesn't get any nappy free time so it's really only in the bath or at nappy change time (which can be messy when there's a poo!).

Naomi I hope today has been a little better for you

Heva sorry to hear you had a bit of a rough day, hope today has been better. I'm also finding if I miss Ash's initial tired signs he's quickly getting over tired these days and becoming a nightmare to settle. If I get him at the right time though he goes down really easily.

Storm, good luck for the move. I think you're right, doing it now while you can pop her down and stay in the one place will be much easier than if you had of left it a couple of months. I really want to take Ash for Santa photos, we went to the shopping centre on Saturday but the line was a mile long. I keep meaning to pop in during the week when hopefully it will be shorter.

Jasp, how exciting, sounds like she's not far off crawling now. Ash is also starting to get up on all fours, but can't put his head up at the same time iykwim. We were over at a friends place the other day and she has one of those shag rugs. It was great, he was able to get some really good traction on it and was making real moves. At home he doesn't get nearly as far.

lovelycate glad to hear you got a good nights sleep, hopefully its the start of a new pattern. Ash was the same with his rolling, he did the tummy to back a couple of times and then pretty much forgot how to. About a month later he started doing back to tummy, but it took him a week or two to work out how to get back to his back again.

AFM all is going really well. We have had a few naps of late where it has been horribly hard getting him to settle (hence my debrief yesterday). It's all about the timing though I think, if I get him down at the right time he self settles really easily. But if I miss that little window then it becomes a battle that lasts 45 minutes or so. I think it probably has a lot to do with him no longer being wrapped. Mind you his night sleeps have been going great, he's slept through every night for the last couple of weeks which has been fantastic. Like a lot of the others he's discovered his feet in the last week or so and has just managed to get them in his mouth. He's started sitting up really well too. I put my breastfeeding pillow around him incase he falls, but he can now sit up unassisted for a good five minutes or so.

Anyway, better run, hope everyone is well x