Hi Girls, as per usual I haven't been getting notifications, this is really annoying me now! I'm so far behind I won't even attempt persies - other than to say OMG Hannah that must have been scary tripping in the carpark, I always have fears of doing that while carrying Amelia, glad she's ok and hope your ankle and knee etc came out ok.

Hi BS - how far along are you now? Obviously not quite enough to put pics up on FB, can't wait to see your belly. Did you not get nausea/morning sickness with Eva? Lucky you! It's horrible though isn't it, how you feel is how I felt all day every day from week 4 to week 13, urgh, gross, not looking forward to that again. How exciting a possible move to New York!!! )

Hi Lani - you getting ready for Jett's party? We chat on FB so I'm up to date with everything else lol.....love our chats. xx

Hi Rose - we have been having the same with Amelia and her sleeping, see below.

Hi Nicola - how's the gorgeous Michael going?

Hi Willow - doesn't it suck going back to that kind of reception. The girl doing my job is a bit the same, she's nice and is much better now but I can tell there's a bit of animosity there. My lovely lovely boss left this week, the new guy doesn't start until end of Jan and he's Thai, coming from Bangkok, he's never lived in Australia before so not sure how the cultural difference will go. It will be my deciding factor on whether to stay or go. Until DH gets more work I'm going to stick at it for a bit longer, I don't like it but it's doable for the money.

Hi Sesame, Suz (hee hee we're updated on FB too) and anyone else I've missed.

AFUS - been soo busy lately, Amelia's party went great as you've probably seen all the pics on FB, was 38 degrees though so was disgustingly hot but never mind. She had a great day and got very spoilt. She's been going great guns, aside from last week my sister kindly visited us full of a cold and passed it onto the both of us so her sleeping went to crap - she'd been doing 11 hours straight for the last 6 weeks without so much as a sound until then grrr, she's also teething - she now has the 8th one coming through, they all seem to be coming at once. We're also in the throws of the final Wonder Week so she's started fussing at night again - it's so text book - this happens every time! At least I know it's temporary and won't last more than a week usually. I tell you last week the first night of her cold I got a total of 3 hours sleep, I was a mess the next day and really started to doubt having another any time soon - I can't handle the sleepless nights - but that has passed, we are just deciding whether to start trying beginning of the year or wait a few months. I'd ideally like Amelia to be 2 before I have another, even a couple of months after she's two but not knowing whether I'll fall straight away or not means you can't pick and choose. So still deciding on that one. One of the girls at mums group just had her 2nd (12 months apart), she brought the baby who is 2 weeks old on Thursday, my goodness you forget how small they are. She said it's really tough having the lack of sleep, she actually looked completely bombed out and it put me off again lol. Her other one isn't a very good sleeper though either so probably doesn't help, that and the fact she had to have an emergency c-section this time (natural first time) - she said she takes her hat off to me for going through that and said she doesn't know how anyone would elect to have one. I would have to agree ha ha. It really takes it out of you and as she said for a lot longer than a natural birth. But Amelia is really coming along, she's saying so many words now, not walking yet but standing on her own and taking steps when I hold her hand so I don't think she's far. She points to babies in books and says baby, the other day she stood at the newborn's pram and was saying baby baby, everyone was like oh how cute is that. My favourte is when she says "bup" for up when she wants to be picked up, so cute hee hee.

Right, best go, have my MIL's 60th this arvo, really can't be bothered but anyway and hopefully my last for a while 1st birthday party tomorrow. This is such a busy time of year isn't it, as it's the first without a proper pay (this time last year I was still getting maternity leave pay from work) I am noticing how expensive Chrissy is, not to mention the 6 birthdays (all family) I have in December as well!

Have a great weekend girls.
xx