Hello All!

Alison - wow, sounds like Amelia was goign great guns for you before she got sick! Hopefully she'll get back into the swing of it soon..illnesses sure knock them around a bit, don't they? Naughty DH! I would have been furious by 4pm! I hope you gave him a good telling off! I have noticed Michael doing similar things too! He's reaching out for things now, he never used to do that. I have to be careful, if I'm not watching he'll knock things over and grab things. He tries to grab his wall stickers too...so cute! I'm hanging out to give him food too...1.5 more weeks I reckon...5.5m is close enough to 6m yeah? Oh and I'm so jealous you can get your rings on! I wore my wedding ring the other day which is a real skinny band...but looked so stupid cos all the fat on my finger bulged out around it. Pfft. Oh well.

Suz - Good luck for the photo's tomorrow! Oooh, yay for Ryan! Which tooth came through?

BS - Oh dear, sorry to hear you got the "when are you due?" question too. Yeah, its kind of uncomfortable isn't it, cos they feel really bad and you're offended too... not nice! Gosh, we all have that to look forward too...food everywhere! I"m gonna buy some vinyl to put on the floor under the high chair to hopefully make cleaning up a bit easier! I feel a bit bad for complaining about DH, he really is fantastic. But I think he has the opinion that I'm home all day so I should tidy up any mess he's left around and that sort of thing, he doesnt' realise that I only really get 40 mins at a time to myself and thats just enough to go to the loo, have something to eat and check fb & bb!! Typical...he kindly looked after Michael on Saturday so I could go out with my sis - so I thought to myself, good now he'll see just how little time I have to do things. But wouldn't you know it he slept for 3 hours straight!!!! He never does that! Typical!

Hannah - Thanks for the tips re getting rid of the belly. I've been trying to 'suck' my belly in while I'm walking around, do you think thats doing any good? I'm not going to any appointments, and I don't want to at this stage. I'll see how I go...I do think I am gradually getting better, it seems once something that I have been anxious about actually happens, I can deal with it a lot better (such as him waking during the night...I was terrified of it). Its tough, but I think the longer I can hang out and experience what I stress about then I will get better. I flew off the handle the other day tho, cos he wouldnt' fall asleep for one of his day sleeps, I got really angry and hated myself for it afterwards. But now I know he might skip a sleep, or take longer to fall asleep...its all ok Gosh, what a lovely DH! Thats a lot of work he did! Good on him How are Amelia's night sleeps going?

AFM - no real news. Meeting with my MG again today, has been a while so should be good. Michael has been waking heaps during the night 4 times last night, wakes up moaning then cries. I dunno if he's hot, cold, still teething...I just dont' know. Tho, on the up side, his middle-of-the-day sleep has greatly improved...yesterday he slept for 2.5 hours! (with one waking). Hopefully that continues.

Okies, better get ready, we're off to Target this morning!