Hi,
Pooley - if it helps, here in NZ i didn't even know there was a swine flu vaccine being offered, let alone for babies - so maybe its not that important if the NZ govt isn't advertising it? I may be wrong - but we wont be vaccinating T, also I think the hype of Swine Flu may have been overdone? Obviously really scary, especially when you got it But possibly not quite as big of an epidemic as they thought?
Funny how F isn't into the meat baby food, have you tried any fish? We gave T tuna last night, as we were having some and he loved it. He might get used to the taste and texture after a few more tries?
Poor wee thing with that nasty infection Hope he recovers quickly x

AM - yay, so exciting! I hope you guys have an awesome time away and Sam goes along happily

Art and Easha - glad to hear solids are going well. Not sure about you, but every now and then i worry whether he is getting enough. Seems silly and illogical considering he can have as much milk as he likes, he's not acting hungry, sleeping fine and growing big!
In fact T is 7.75kg now, yay - so really moving up on the percentile graph to about 20th % instead of 3%.
We just had our first swimming lesson - and it was so much fun. I thought we'd take it easy as pools are loud and its all so different, but he was great. Had a few unintentional face dunks and splashes with no crying, and he did lots of kicking and splashing. So i've signed us up for weekly classes now - so much for my plan to do it all myself, sometimes its easier just to go with the easier option! This pool is about 3 minutes drive from us, a special kids lessons pool, it has a baby change room (Taurean our change shelf/mats are enclosed with a wooden side, and you change bub sideways - not that easy, but i think much harder to roll off) and a padded playpen in the adults change room, so i'm happy.
The un-wrapping process is going along nicely. We have had a few nights of sleeping with both arms out of the wrap, so hopefully we are ok with that now. Daysleeps are not so easy - he just wants to play if he is not wrapped. I've only managed to get him to sleep twice with no wrap, and both times he woke 30 minutes later - hmm might take a bit longer. We are going away tonight for 2 nights, so will be interesting to see if he can manage no wrap in the portacot! Saturday night we are at a wedding - so he'll probably have to sleep in the buggy, wish us luck!

Hope the rest of you are travelling well?
Sanchez - how is that sweet girl of yours going? Hope you are starting to get some rest x
Kelly