Good to have a moment to make my way in here finally! And lovely to read everyone's updates too

Joey - omg at Lily's crawling!!!! I watched the video of her on fb and that is completely amazing! I think you have a future olympic gold medallist of some sort there. And I'll bet she is loving facing the front in the car too.

Ang - thats great that Natalya still likes being wrapped ... Lila decided practically o/night a few weeks ago that she was sick of it and that was that! Hope you have a wonderful Christmas....

Lolly - Will's photos on FB are soooooo CUTE (I love blanket head - lol!). Great news about your PT work at the pilates studio - how are you enjoying it?

Yes, the bubs are now 6 months old - EEEEEEEKK! Seriously, I have lost a few months - I can't remember anything between July and September

Lila is going great guns, such a joy. Just a lovely happy bub 99.9% of the time. Lots of rolling now, a tiny bit of sitting up with heaps of falling to the side, loves to be held standing which I'm trying to limit (paed said too much can make them overextend and overarch their spines, but a little bit is all right). LOVING her solids and is having 3 bowlfuls a day of vegies/fruit/chicken/rice/porridge whatever is going. On top of this she is also having at least 3 to 4 bf a day and 2 or 3 bottles of formula. I've also given her some pieces of banana and avocado to have a play with which she's enjoyed, this afternoon she managed to eat about half the piece of avo. I'm just loving watching her discover new tastes and textures - such a fun time. Her sleeps are great too - normally goes from 7.30pm until 6am overnight. 3 naps a day, usually a couple of hours in the morning if we're at home, then a couple of catnaps. Still in her capsule as she's still on the smallish side - we return the hire capsule on 7 Jan (earliest we could get in). Happy to wait till then to swap her over into ds's old car seat.

6 month check-up went well and she had her jabs yesterday. Am sooooooo not wanting to be the one to take her again though (it just doesn't get any easier!). Have already told DH to book an annual leave day for her 12 mth needles

Other Lila news is that she had a uti a couple of weeks ago - took her to the GP after moderate fever and smelly wet nappies. Not sure how she got it - dr said it could be from wriggling in a pooey nappy (yuk). On antibiotics for a week which was very difficult, she didn't want a bar of it. Results from last friday's follow-up urine test were all clear which is great. Routine when bubs get uti's is to send them for a kidney ultrasound to check for structural problems (such as urinary reflux that can make them prone to uti's). We're off for Lila's scan next Tues am so hoping all will be ok - according to my mum I had urinary reflux when I was little so there is a good chance she'll have it too. Treatment isn't too bad if so. Will just be good to know either way...

And I heard a nasty rumour that there is 16 days left until Christmas - eep

xx