Wow, starting solids! I know that it's fine from 4 months, and all, but Thor seems so little still! Having said that, he certainly is showing an interest in anything we eat in his sight, and at his 3-4 month CHN visit, she went through solids with us.

Thor is still only rolling from tummy to back on one direction, and has limited tolerance of it - he'll do it 4 or 5 times and then tire out. But he does seem to move around a bit on the playmat, and I presume it's still pretty accidental. Like everyone else, I'm loving the interaction - gorgeous chuckles and squeals when we tickle him, and lots and lots of talking. This morning he woke us up by talking, really loudly, too, he stopped for 10 minutes to feed when I got him up, then proceeded to talk for another full hour! I love it!

DP is finally back at work, after his 4 months paternity leave. We miss him, but it's kind of nice - I feel like a proper stay at home Mum, now. And we'll have some regular classes - my yoga starts up in February, we'll go to a baby swim class, and we'll continue with Mother's Group, which will become Playgroup in February as soon as our Tuesday morning timeslot opens up at the local centre. DP and I really made the most of his time off, and we have built and filled and planted out 4 raised garden beds, prepared them for retic, and totallly renovated our bathroom to include a bath. Thor is still a little unsure about the bath, but I love being able to have one with him!

Thor had been in a fairly predictable 2 1/2 hour cycle of sleep-feed-play, during the day, and sleeping through the night from 7pm to roughly 6am, until about 3 weeks ago. Then it suddenly became very erratic, with sleeps anywhere between 40 mins and 3 hours during the day, unpredictable appetite on waking, and waking 1-2 times most nights again. The last few days, he seems to be settling back into a sleep-feed-play-feed cycle of about 4 hours, ad the longer sleeps during the day are a godsend for getting things done in the house - but he's still waking once at night, most nights. Hopefully as he settles into this new routine, he'll go back to sleeping through again.

Dr Tal, good thinking re freezing the seasonal stuff - and your comment gotr me thinking - DP is having a major operation in 3 weeks time - a total hip replacement - and I'll be solely in charge of running around for both of them for at least a few weeks, just about when Thor might be starting solids. SO this is one more little thing that I can do to get ourselves ready for that time - freezer meals for us AND freezer meals for Thor.

Oh - one last thing - Thor is such a great name for putting into little songs and rhyming - his latest delight is my version of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. It goes like this:

Twinkle, twinkle, little Thor,
How I wonder what you're for.
You're my favourite little boy.
I'm so glad you're not a toy.
Twinkle, twinkle little Thor,
How I wonder what you're for.