Poor E - thats a bit sad that she was in so much discomfort!

Nice work CJ with the tooth. Good to hear it came about without too much fuss, nice work and good on you for taking it easy on Mum and Dad CJ. Vic I know what you mean about it being nice to be just the three of you again, visitors are great, but its nice to get back to normal a bit too, my family all live far away (only Mum here in Adelaide) so family visits when they occur tend to be for a few days and very full on and busy which we thoroughly enjoy, but its always relaxing to 'get your house back' etc hehehehe

Nicky - if its really red/bleeding, the other thing I always recommend is the lucas paw paw ointment - I use it for everything and its fabulous I reckon. Love the pic's of Lachie playing at the playground - that playground looks awesome!!

I am going to try a few sleeping tips as Bailey has gotten himself into the annoying habit of waking closer to 5am than 6am. I have decided to move his bedtime to 7pm (its currently 6pm as he is just so tired then), but I am really struggling with the early mornings, and the festive season hasn't helped obviously. So my NY resolution is to work on this sleep issue, I really want to get him in a 7pm - 7am routine. I was reading the 'Save our Sleep' book and although I am not up for the self settling stuff with the crying (although she doesn't call it controlled crying as such its still crying / grizzling in my mind which I cant handle as Bailey's grizzling inverably ends up in un-controlled crying and absolute despair for him - which is heartbreaking for me). I did read something interesting that makes me think his first nap of the day is too early and this just encourages him to wake early, seems to make sense. I am also going to push his dinner time back by giving him an afternoon bottle and faze out the overnight one, he currently has dinner 430ish - way too early, this has all come about as I have just followed him so all these times have been baby led, but now that I am close to going back to work, I want to see him before and after work (selfishly I know), and be there for dinner time, bath, bed etc so things need to be a bit more 'family led' if you like. I dont want to be getting up at the crack of dawn once I am back at work either. (Although Sean will be the SAHM, I cant just 'switch' off once I go back to work, nor do I want to), So its worth plugging away for a few weeks to change his routine a bit - Its really just moving it all forward a few hours. Wish me luck!