Sorry it's been ages since I last posted My boss is away today so I've got time to read and post

Yules: Love your new av. Hope Max settles down a bit when you're able to move into your new home with all your furniture etc & start to get back to normality. Yay to Darcie's new tooth and moving about The photos for your 360 project are gorgeous!!

Ellie: I'm not sure what to suggest for Miss T, but I'm sure you will find what works best. I take my hat off to you with looking after 2 under 2. Poo to chick from your mother's group!!

Peta: Our life motto is "it doesn't rain it pours" & it sounds like you need a big umbrella. Hope you were able to get your fridge warranty sorted and you get a new fridge or your current one fixed quickly. Hope yours and Alyssa's cold are clearing too. I hate being sick.

Deacon doesn't have any teeth either yet. We're the same though and EVERYONE keeps saying he is coz he chews on everything (his fingers are his faves) since he was about 3 months old. With food, I'm same as peanutter, for lunch he'll have either porridge (with or without fruit), weetbix, toast or some multigrain rice cereal. For lunch I pack him sticks of either cucumber, rockmelon, watermelon, apple, peach, nectarine or any fruit that can be cut up into sticks; yoghurt; cruskits or rice cakes with some form of spread (vegemite, cream cheese, avo); and some little sausage fingers that I've made from different recipes. If you want to have a look there is a thread under baby led solids that has a link to a recipe book. There are some really good things in there. We don't always have dinner. As he gets breakfast, morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea he sometimes doesn't want it. But if he does I usually do a mix of mash and finger food.

LC: So glad to hear your little girl is settling in. She sounds wonderful.

DB: Our nappy bag lives in Deacon's room. I find that handy as I just "refill" it when I put it away so it's ready for when we next need it. I hope everything is still going well with James's new school. I still can't believe how young bullying is starting these days. Logan sounds like a champ

Peanutter: Love your av. I can't wait to see what mine turns out like. Sounds like J-man is going great guns. You truely are an inspiration to me. When I'm feeling all tired and worn out from working full time, expressing at work, looking after Deacon etc etc I just think about what you've been through and how positive you are and I give myself the kick in the bum I need and get on with it. If you don't mind me asking, how do you get on with expressing at work?? I find that some days I struggle to get enough for the next day and others I have lots.... Some days I also find my let-down isn't too great either. Do you have any tips??

Big to everyone I've missed.

AFM: Deacon is doing fantastically. He is now a master at crawling (my goodness he is quick!!) and is pulling himself up on everything and starting to cruise along. I got a playpen for him last weekend so I'm able to put him in there when I need to duck outside to hang washing out or have a shower etc. He thinks it's great. It's one of those blow molded brightly coloured plastic ones. We play peek-a-boo around the sides and he cracks up laughing. He also likes that he can hit things against the side of it and it makes a loud bang noise.

He has settled into daycare really well and is now drinking all his milk (3 bottles at 100-125mL each), eating all his food, having 2 x 1-1.5 hour sleeps and has made lots of friends. Makes me feel a bit better about leaving him there to come back to work.

We are looking for a new house now too. We want to look at having another baby soon and we won't be able to fit a family of 4 in our little house. We have looked at a few but they have been either good land (we want a minimum of 5 acres with bushland) and crappy house or a good house and not the land we are after. Hoepfully we'll find something we like soon.

Well I'd better get back to it. I've been at work for an hour and only done one letter Take care lovely ladies