Naomi: PMSL @ sw@nky! Funny what gets censored. GL with the pants. I am a sewing non-hoper, unfortunately. I'd be begging my mum to produce something for me. Sewing on buttons is about the limit of my capabilities I'm afraid.
Thank you so much for the offer of the referral. Yes, I'm fairly close to Macquarie Park - it is closer to where I used to work. I'd be very interested in doing anything atm, but I've just been finding out how difficult it is to get something part time. Seems like everyone wants you fulltime unless you are a bookkeeper.
Jacinta: Phoebe rolls about the place too, but she's not so strong on her upright balance so I don't reckon she'd be cruising, even if she did have a toy-table to entertain her. I am hoping she'll start to crawl soon though - it would actually make my life easier because then she would be able to get away from Natty without my help
Bella: Sorry the sleeping is getting out of hand for you. I hope the book is really useful and that you find some good tips that will work for you and little J. There used to be a support thread specifically for the NCSS on the ABA forum? It's been a couple of years since I was on there though.
Your present ideas sound lovely!
Vic: I hear you re the not wanting to entertain herself thing. Phoebe has been like that for a while too. She's generally pretty happy, but for the last month or so she's been fairly demanding.
Woohoo @ the swimming!
What food have you tried CJ on? So far P has had pumpkin, avocado, broccoli and rockmelon. She doesn't swallow much either, but yesterday and today she ate a couple of tiny spoonfuls of food (yesterday was avo, today was pumpkin) and seemed to quite enjoy them, opening her mouth for more. I reckon it takes them a while sometimes to work out that what they're eating is actually food.
BG: Sound like E did wonderfully! Though I am sure she missed you. Sorry your A&D stuff reared it's ugly head. Hope you have had someone to talk through things with? I know there are loads of people on here especially who would love to be there for you if you needed it, but you have us too.
Krystie: Kyson's mobility is wonderful! Sounds like he's growing up so much already. Such a gorgeous little guy.

I am incredibly tired too - had the severe sneezes, itchy nose, mouth, throat, ears thing today. So I took a phenergan this arvo hoping to just bang it on the head so it doesn't stick around for a week. My eyes are just about falling out of my head - this screen is actually blurry! But Phoebe won't go to sleep just yet, little party animal. I just know I can't go off to bed cause otherwise she'll want me to settle her off when she's finally ready, and I'll have been asleep for like, 20 minutes or something. This has happened a couple of times recently. So I'm just going to have to plug on in my semi-comatose state until she drops off... *yawn*
Hoping the girls sleep ok tonight - they are both in new beds. We collected Natty's from Mum and Dad's this afternoon and put Natty's cot in Phoebe's room. Natty was so desperate to go to bed tonight, bless her! I'm so surprised and thrilled that it wasn't a battle to get her in there - the furthest from it. Phoebe on the other hand... well. She's rolling, rotating, squealing, squawking...