thanks for the advice re solids ladies, very helpful I think it's easier to try and make the solids one meal in itself...the formula tin reckons she should only be having 4 milk feeds a day which is what we have done today so far, but I have just put her to bed and I bet she will be awake in an hour like she has been doing lately and won't go back to sleep until after 9 (it was 10 last night before she finally went to sleep!) so will fit in another feed then. Just when I thought I had everything flowing smoothly and we were in some sort of routine it all changes again...lol.

Hayley is getting her 6 month check up and needles tomorrow, hopefully she goes alright as she hasn't been weighed since about 4 months. I hope our new MCHN is good too, they sounded nice on the phone but you never know until you meet them!

Cate I know what you mean about entertaining them...Hayley is up for 2 to 2 1/2 hours usually, but has gone for 3 1/2 hours if I have gone out and she won't go to sleep in her pram. At the moment she loves throwing/dropping things...she'll sit there for ages picking up a toy and dropping it, but dropping it far enough away from her that she can't reach so will grumble until i pick it up for her and give it back. I got her some little balls (the fisher price 'roll-a-rounds' balls) and she loves rolling them around, or picking them up and dropping them then watching them roll away. They'll be great when she is a bit older and we can roll them back and forth to each other.
She is trying hard to move...managed to go forwards a litle bit yesterday, not crawling just squiggling. I don't think she is too far off crawling though, the way she is going she'll start crawling in her cot as that's where she practises getting right up on her knees the most...lol.