BB - my niece has just had a bout of roseola - a viral rash thing. She was basically really clingy, whingy and sleepy for a few days, then had a rash all over her and was still a bit grumpy, then she was fine. Sounds like it could be going round!

GL with getting some more hours at work. We are bit strapped financially too... I'm thinking about picking up some work with my friends MCN shop, doing some stuff from home - she gets lots of questions via email and doesn't get a chance to respond, so she wants me to help out. Could be good to get a bit of extra cash...

I love the mug idea, where are you ordering it?? Will it be here by Sunday? I was going to do a photo book for mum/MIL - but I ran out of time

Olive - woo, a night out? Sounds lovely! Its DH's bday on Thurs and I offered to take him out for tea, just the two of us, but he's all "can't afford it, too hard to find a babysitter for DD, etc etc". And now his folks want to have us over for dinner so that's an easier/cheaper option! Oh well!

Shell - I love the Dandys too but couldn't live there! I grew up in outer Melb, but north eastern outer burbs and it was a bit tough as I got older and wanted to be in the city and stuff. So much easier where I am now, still nice and leafy but only about 30-40mins to the city. But I do love my trees - need greenery around me!

How's everyone else going?? Hi to all!

AFU: not much going on, had a hectic weekend but still didn't get DD into her bed. But we have the cradle back from SIL so that's great, give us some extra breathing space if we need it.

I'm in for my 32 week check on Fri - how quick has that gone! Four weeks of work left after this week... hanging out to finish!

DD still suffering pretty bad nappy rash, just won't clear up. Seems to get better and then worse... trying some new nappy things to see if it helps. Other than that she is a happy girl, most of the time! Constantly amazes us with her developments - new words for the moment are car (CA!), dark (DA!), turtle (which actually sounds like turtle when she says it), she is making horse/monkey/tiger sounds and making crab hand signs. She also has a sound she makes when she is hungry now (which sounds strangely like horsey LOL) and she says "Dink!" for drink, which is so nice to not have to try and work out why she is grizzling, food or water? She just makes the sound or says "Dink!".

She can also pick out some of the flash cards if we ask her too - as in mix them all up on the ground and say "Where is the turtle?" and she will look through them and find it. She is clearly gifted and I have no doubt the next Nobel peace prize winner

Taking my tongue out of my cheek now, she just amazes us every day. Love this age!

One funny thing I have noticed though (as in ha-ha, not weird) is that she is starting to refer to herself as "Bubba" - which DH and I call her. We must use it too frequently - we say "Hi Bubba", "what's wrong bubba?", "Where's Bubba? I can't see Bubba!", "bath time for bubba!" and now it seems she thinks she is called Bubba! She'll pick up my water bottle and I used to say "No, that's mummy's bottle, where is Bubba's?" and now, she picks up my bottle and says "Bubba? Bubba?" looking for her bottle. So cute.