Oz! Nah, we're here...and prolly will be til the cows come home LOL. That's fantastic that L is thriving, I'm sure he'll do well settling into school as well. Yay for TTing Miss Z , and I'm glad she's taking to CC ok.

MP, yes of course we still love you! Sounds like you as just every bit as busy as usual. Any news on the "developments" front?

Arte, it will be interesting to see what happens when you cut down on the sugar. Chocolate can be very stimulating by itself, nice combo of food chemicals, caffeine and then add sugar too. LOL at the Bureaucrat.

Cally how did the bridal shower go? How exciting! When's the actual wedding?

Cass, I'm a bit confused about your mention of school? I thought you were heading to bella Italia for the remainder of the year(?) so how does school orientation etc fit into that? LOL at the girls' routine.

There is an open day up at the school in a couple of weeks, but that's the only one for the year. The teachers go down to the kindy to observe the kids before they settle on the class placement (ie they take what they observe into account in the class design). The kids do 2 x half a day orientations in the class with the teacher who will be their teacher next year, and there's an option for another day as well if she needs it. The lady I saw suggested doing a social story book (with pictures of the school uniform, bag, details about what will happen at school, etc) so that's a good idea. I'm sure she'll come around to the idea after I wear her down over a whole year LOL.