Well hello there everyone, not been in for a while so thought it was about time!

Hope everyone is well and had a great christmas, can't believe our little ones will be 1 soon, no idea where the time went!

Tania: sorry that you haven't found any mum mates yet, hopefully you will find some others on the same level as you, fingers crossed.

Elliot is crawling everywhere and making mischief! Thus far he has fallen off the bed, pulled bottles of wine onto himself, choked on tin foil and tried to eat ****roach bait. I so wanted him to be mobile but bloody hell it's hard work!! Not pulling up on furinture yet so plenty of time before we go walkies although this last week he has started doing some funky gymnast moves and going on hands in feet and pushing his bum right up in the air then balancing on one leg! He has had his first "proper" swim, not had any lessons yet but we can pass him to each other under the water, it's so cute watching him swim! Sinks like a stone if you don't give him a bit of momentum! Daddy is loving being at home with him full time, seems to be working out really well. I am now on 5 days off and have a run of 7 off coming up which will be great!

I am loving work, so great to be back amongst adults again! I am starting my graduate diploma in February and can then get it out of the way before baby number 2. We have decided we will wait until the end of the year to start trying again. Good luck with the working Tania, it's great once you get going, i'm sure you'll love it.

Matthew's parents have booked a trip out, they arrive in May for 3 months, EEK!! We have booked a week in Palm Cove as a surprise for them and they are also house sitting for friends of ours for a few weeks so hopefully we won't get under each others feet too much!!

Elliot still has about 2 night time feeds, usually 10pm, 2am then feed at 5am and up out of bed. Last night he went from 7pm to 2am but alas it was just a one off!! Hoping that one day we will get a full nights sleep, well I live in hope anyway!

I have become a Mummy ambassador for Pinky McKay, she sent out a call to arms for some followers to spruik her latest book and having already read two of them and absolutely loved them I was only too happy to oblige. I'm sure that I will be buying a copy of her "Toddler Tactics" book before too long! I will certainly be getting my copy of "Parenting by heart", she has helped me through some rough times! I have also got my 2 sisters onto her books, I now have one niece, a nephew due in Feb and a niece/ nephew due in July, crikey! I've posted a link if anyone would like to have a look, not sure whether it may get removed though we'll see.

http://www.pinky-mychild.com/index.p...article&id=116