Hi Girls!

Hannah - That's great that Amelia's got her days and nights around the right way again. So sorry to hear about your Mum and your Grandmother, sounds like things should get easier for you soon with your family. Great that you and DH are doing better with the parenting teamwork. I like your approach to the WW to just give her everything she needs. It's extra effort for you, but probably less stress in the long run and maybe the WW will be shorter.

Rose - Liam is going great guns! I'll have to get on to that baby-lead weaning book, I think Hannah said she ordered it through the ABA... Hope this fussy period ends for you soon and you get a longer stretch before the next one. How are you going/feeling? You're doing a great job

Brussels - Sounds like Eva is like Ryan. He cries if I'm eating and wants some, even stealing things off my plate. Maybe try her with finger foods like rusks, banana, toast soldiers, sticks of cooked carrot? Ryan loves those but wasn't keen on the runny rice cereal. Craig hated it too and preferred porridge (oatmeal?). You sound like me when I first went back to work it does get better.

Kawazuki - Everytime I read your posts I think about you sewing up a storm and it makes me think about all the sewing jobs I have sitting there undone. Did you post in the 12 wk challenge thread that your 2YO broke your scales? It sounds like there would be a funny story behind that

Willow - I get the condensation too, even with the door open. I find I can't run the vaporiser non-stop, else the walls are dripping so I tried to only run it when Craig was sleeping. Haven't needed it yet with Ryan. How's the renovating going?

Beany - We put the baby bath in the big bath straight away this time, then I got sick of doing two baths and now I just bath both boys together in the big bath. I bought a bath seat yesterday because Ryan keeps trying to grab all the bath toys and I thought a bath seat would make him a little easier to hold on to. We have the heat lamps on in the bathroom and I wrap him in a towel and dress him in his room (central heating). I didn't think our change table had a weight restriction on it, once Craig got too heavy to lift up I just put his change mat on the floor. Hope Michael's feeling better soon.

Alison - Hope you and Amelia are feeling better soon. Ryan is really fussy with his feeds too ATM and we're not really doing solids yet. I'd say it's more likely a WW than the solids. With my experience Craig dropped the milk feed closest to the meal, but still wanted the others. Based on that I wouldn't think that one meal of solids won't ruin her appetite for FF for the rest of the day.

AFM - Ryan is 6 months old today! To celebrate, my Mum's coming over to mind the boys and I'm off to get a haircut for the first time since I was pregnant.

We've successfully tried various finger foods over the last couple of weeks, so I thought I'd try rice cereal on Sunday. It was no good, he kept pushing it out with his tongue, as if he was trying to lick the food off the spoon. He loved the spoon, but just wanted to chew on it. So we'll have another go today, but I think Ryan might be a 'baby-lead' weaner rather than the traditional way like Craig.

Loads of other stuff going on here, but will have to post more later as Ryan has done a big poo and Craig is crashing around in the bathroom (probably needs help with the potty). Hopefully BBL.