A lot of us seem to be having daytime sleep issues! Tom hardly slept at *all* yesterday, literally just a couple of ten minute naps (fortunately I was busy and he was happy enough). The upside is that last night he actually slept for five hours, his longest ever stretch. I haven't had that much sleep all at once since I got pregnant.

Dee, I hope Ethan is okay now and over all those bugs, and that you are well and truly over your gastro!

Rayray, did you survive??? I am so glad that I only have Tom at home during the week... Clare is a nightmare at the moment and weekends are really difficult. Tom can't sleep or have any quiet time without her deliberately disrupting him. She's actually been very naughty lately, very aggressive and sooky. We're having to be very consistent and concentrate a lot on her behaviour (gee, I wonder if that was what she wanted us to do? LOL).

Amazed, isn't it wonderful when they start getting interested in things? Last night dh sat Tom on his lap and read him a book. Tom, who likes to pull himself forward when he's sitting up now, spent the whole time patting the pictures of the animals and coo-ing at them. He's a very chatty baby. This morning he made me laugh - he was in bed with me, about an arm's length away, on his side, talking to me, and then he got fed up and fair dinkum wriggled his way over like a worm until he got to my boob. I've never seen anything like it. He hasn't rolled again (probably because he's such a fatty boom-bah). I got on the scales with him yesterday (not scientific I know) and he's now, by the scales' reckoning, 7.6kg. He certainly feels that heavy.

I'm trying really hard not to beat myself up about the house being a mess all the time and getting so little done. I keep thinking, "I was so much more organised with the others," and then I remember that it was because I was stressed out to the max about disorganisation, I didn't take the time to snuggle as much with the kids, and I enjoyed their first year a whole heck of a lot less. Plus, I'm going back to work at the beginning of next year, and I'll be able to afford to pay someone to come and clean for me then!

I'm making some lactation cookies today - my milk supply is having a bit of trouble keeping up with Tom and he's getting frustrated with my boobs. Oh, and we thought the dribbling was just dribbling (him dribbling, not my boobs LOL) until this morning when we looked in his mouth and there's a flippin' tooth there, just under the gum. You can see the white line where it's about to break through. None of my others teethed this early. He hasn't been too miserable so hopefully it will break through okay.

I hope everyone else is well and enjoying their wee ones