Jacinta: Sorry you have been so tired. I sort of know the feeling, except I'm not preggers on top of that! Hope J gets better soon and you can get some rest. Bummer about the money stuff. I know how that feels too. How exciting that you are about to have a little 1yo!
Bella: Glad J's teething has settled a bit. Talk about knackered.
Nay: Woohoo @ the slow cooker! Yay for mum!
Nic: Sounds like you had a wonderful day Hope A is feeling better soon - sorry to hear he's not well.
Vic: Glad you are doing well.
Cathy: I think I must've had a really good run with the breastfeeding/biting caper. I have been lucky that my girls haven't bitten much and not hard when they did. I don't think I'd have the determination to stick with it if they were drawing blood
Sorry about Laura's face. It is hard to know what's going on in a little kid's mind. Does Laura respond well to positive reinforcement/reward systems? I was never a fan but I decided I'd had enough of Natalie's puddles on the floor so I introduced a sticker chart with a chocolate reward when she got 10 stickers. There have been 0 accidents since we started! Not sure if it'd be workable with Laura's situation, but some incentive is always good. Maybe she finds the scratches really itchy when they are healing? I remember finding grazes on my knees very itchy. It's just a bummer that it's on the sensitive skin of her face.
KL: Hope today went really well, babe. xx

Had a lovely mothers day here. The girls made me some craft at childcare - a bookmark and picture from Phoebe (she had arranged crepe paper on some cardboard then they put contact over the top) and handprints on heart-shaped paper from Natty saying, "Mum, I hand you my heart". LOL. Cute. Corny but cute. After church this morning we went up to the shops and bought a new coffee grinder (our old one died and we've been struggling along with only decaf for a couple of weeks now as that was the only ground coffee we had in the house!). I had a voucher from my birthday which I decided to put towards it so we could get a good one. Then we had lunch with my folks which was relaxing. I didn't do much in the way of chores today. Yippee!
Off to bed - who knows what Phoebe will do tonight. She's all over the place these days. Happy Mothers' Day to you all. xxx