Babies born~September 1st-15th 2009 #2

Thats no good about Sam AM, I hope the drugs kick in soon and he starts improving. Good idea about the string.......now to find some string - guess I could use dental floss!
We tried to measure V today...pretty unsuccessfully but she is still in the 60's....looked as if 67 maybe.

We have been having a hard time getting her enthused with solids - she just isn't interested.....although i got her to have an entire jar of pureed fruit which is unheard of - how you may ask.....by giving her a straw! She wanted to suck it up. Random. Tried it again tonight wit the raffetys bag and she just sucked it out of the bag. And for desert she was all over the Haloumi me and Dh was eating. Interesting taste buds but whatever - as long as shes eating.
She is still refusing formula....i have Karicare and the smell of it is enough to make me gag so i presume to tastes pretty gross.....is anyone using a formula that is not too bad? I thought it may be the taste putting her off......i don't want to have to put Milo in there to make her drink it! Kidding.

Ok dishes are calling me......nighty night

AM, hope Sam starts to feel better really soon. And you too!

Sanchez, ha ha on the straw! Maybe you can get her to drink water out of a straw too? Was she the bub that doesn't like water, sorry can't remember so ignore that if I've got the wrong bub! Ethan has NAN formula and he loves it just as much as breast milk although I'm sure it tastes completely different. Then again it could just be that he will drink anything lol! You could try mixing formula with breast milk and then slowly decrease the amount of breast milk so she gets used to it? Haloumi hey, she's very cultured!

Ethan started waving today. Every time you say 'bye bye' he automatically starts waving. Very funny!

Morning ladies. OMGosh its freezing here in Brissy this morning. But I actually like having the cooler weather. Means we actually get to put clothing on ;) I love dresing Jackson up in warm winter clothing, especially woolies :)

MW3 I hope Sam gets better soon. There is nothing worse than a poorly bubs and not being able to help them. Poor mite :( I also have a skinny baby too. Jackson was 8.3kg last week (25%ile) with skinny chicken legs.

lol Sanchez about the straw. I say do what ever works for your bubs :p

Art, A is going so well with her weight. Hehe hopefully her head catches up soon :) The photobook was quite easy to do. Its mainly time consuming more than anything, but good fun too.

Taurean :clap: Congrats to your DH for the promotion. What an awesome achievement! Shame about you and Izzy not being able to go with him though.

Thanks Kelly re the DC. I think I will stay with him on the first day to make the transition easier. Im hoping by then he has either dropped his day feeds or he will need to take the bottle, which is something we are struggling with...

Sangie YAY for waving bye bye, thats gorgeous. Jackson has just started clapping.

In the last week Jackson has started commando crawling and last night for the first time he went from crawling to sitting :thumbsup: I love seeing him reach milestones, it makes being a mummy the best job in the world even when it has its moments.
Jackson is still a bit all over the place with sleep. Last night he did 7.30pm to 6am for the first time in a few weeks. I hope that continues. He is also teething, poor little man had hot red cheeks yesterday.

Sanchez, yay for the resettling by patting! Good too that she is eating through a straw. Try not to worry too much about going back to work - 10 month olds are lots different to 8 month olds and I am sure that it will all work out nicely for you.

Sangie, cute about the waving. Miss A is still not really doing any tricks.

BOB, congrats on the commando crawling. Very cute.

Miss A fell asleep in the car for the first time today, slept for 10 minutes until we got home and decided that was an offical nap. So one very tired little girl by bedtime.

Art - the settling with patting lasted 2 nights, now she wakes up and starts screaming immediately. As for eating with a straw - that lasted a day. The next day she wouldn't do it.

V is trickless as well....Renee if Izzys enthusiasm is a sign of higher intelligence then I fear for poor V! May not be the sharpest tool in the shed! I'm kidding! She'll get it...she is the tortoise in this race they call life!

Sanchez - LOL! PMSL! V just cracks me up and so do your random comments. Absolute classics! I'm sure V is just fine. At least she's not hyperactive which little Miss Iz can be at times. I was sure I had an ADHD child on my hands....maybe I do! She is just so damn busy, keeping her mummy very busy too! I reckon V is one of these kids who will just randomly one day start walking and talking full sentences. She's busy soaking it all up right now, preparing for her big day when she lets rip!

Before I forget, formula. Izzy has tried them all it seems and she likes them all which makes it easy for us! S26 is probably the worst on her tummy. I like Karicare but it's super frothy when you shake it up, NaN is great too and we're currently using Heinz and she loves that as well. I'm just going for what ever is on special these days! I always go for the Gold variety though.

Art - was that seriously the first time A has slept in the car?! Car sleeps have been my saviour many, MANY times. Thank god for cars! LOL! A does have a cute little pea head! Izzy's sounds huge compared to A's!! I took her to the GP and they gave her the all clear. We need to measure it again in a couple of months but they were happy with her head shape, fontanelles and her health, milestones, etc so she should be fine. The only issue I have is that she needs buttons on her neck lines or very stretchy collars on her clothes!

BoB - yay for commando crawling and sitting! Izzy started crawling last week and within the first day of crawling had taught herself to sit (from the crawl) and take off again. I was gob smacked! It all happened so fast! She is pulling herself into a standing position all the time now (in the cot in the morning :o ) and is starting to cruise the funiture although she tumbles most of the time. I can't get over how quickly they get going once it all clicks for them. I'm loving the cooler weather in Perth too. Izzy has so many gorgeous winter outfits, we are having a ball dressing her each day. Well, I am at least ;)

Sangie - did you buy anything on your shopping night?? I had a night out with the girls from mothers group on Friday night and it was brilliant! I was surprised at how it recharged the mothering batteries.

Nicola - thanks for you message on Facebook. I'm feeling so much better about things this week as I've gotten it off my chest and I think I've got a few idea to get me out of my rut. I am having a few cheeky red wines tonight though ;)

AM - how's Sam going? Any better? Izzy is quite the social butterfly too. She did so well with all the new people we met on our trip over east and she's always smiling and chatting to anyone and everyone while we're out. She had the cutest baby converstaion with one of the little boys at Gymbaroo the other day, it was gorgeous! I think we've got a right chatterbox on our hands which my parents love as they had to put up wtih me for a good 19 years (or they still do put up with me!).

AFU - we're at my parents for a few nights while DH is away. I wasn't overly confident staying in our new place on our own as it's very open and kind of exposed, I just wasn't ready. It doesn't help that that Perth Millionaire that has gone missing (they suspect he's been murdered by his business partner) lives on our street!! Freaky!

Izzy has been up once a night again for the past couple of nights. I think it must be her teeth as she's really upset when she wakes and is chewing madly on her fingers, poor little girl. She's been coming into bed with us when she wakes early (around 6ish) where I let her feed and I keep sleeping. It's been working well although Izzy seems to take over most of the bed! It was just her and I this morning in my parents spare bed but she still took up so much room. I was coping quite well until Izzy decided she'd had enough sleep and thought my nose looked like an interesting thing to start squeezing! What a way to wake up!

I can't believe how much our baby girl has grown in the past couple of weeks. She is fully crawling now, babbling lots and pulling herself into a standing position on lots of different things, including her cot in the morning! It cracks me up when I go to get her, our little prisoner! She's started waving last week too and is trying to clap as well. She's also started to play peek-a-boo with her blanket when she's in the pram. She's just so damn busy! It is amazing to watch her though as every day seems to bring a new trick.

Mum and I were bathing Izzy tonight and she was having a wonderful time sitting in one of those bathing rings in my parents bath until she suddenly went quiet then grunted a bit then went red in the face and promptly **** in the bath! it was her first time and boy was she proud of herself! She left a nice log on the bath seat so we had to evacuate the bath, drain it and refill it so I could wash her properly. Iz couldn't understand what all the fuss was about!

Had a night out with my mums group on Friday night and we had a ball! It was so weird seeing each other all dressed up and wearing makeup and nice hair for a change! We had such a fun night and I was amazed at how a night on the town really made a difference to my mood. I was so excited to see Izzy yesterday morning, but still very glad that DH got up to her and let me sleep in! We're going to try to do it every 4-6 weeks - mum's night out. Woohoo.

I'm going to finish my port and get to bed. I've gone to bed at 1am the past two night and the bags under my eyes are looking worse each day. Now where did I put that rhoid cream? LOL (Sanchez!)

Hi

Glad you are feeling better Renee. I feel better this week..I realised that when I felt bad the other week it was PMS so I think hormones have alot to do with how Im feeling, I had just forgotten about it as I havnt had many periods in the past few years..lol.

Indigo is fully crawling on her knees now and standing up on chairs etc so it is a handful esp with the boys being into everything. Indi follows me everywhere and she has snuck up on me a few times and I have nearly stood on her when turning around.

Im having a baby market stall next sunday the 29th May at the Norths Leagues Club at Kallangur to get rid of all my baby and kids clothes. Indi is 8kg now and wearing size 0 mainly.

Bye for now

Taurean, yip, first car sleep since she was a newborn. If we want her to sleep in the car we have to pull over and feed and jiggle her then ever so carefully place her back in the carseat - then she is awake 20 minutes later! Drives me mental! I would love to see Iz and A together, they would look like pumpkins and peas lmao.

Sanchez, bummer about the patting to sleep and the straw feeding. I think V is still one up on A, she hasn't even managed to pop a tooth yet.

Nicola, I wish there were some kids markets around here, I have all sorts of baby crap that I don't need and don't want to hoard for years in case someone I know has a baby.

A is wearing mostly size 1 stuff now. She fits a couple of 0 pants but the tops are too tight. We went to a mothers group today and she is the same size (or bigger) as two girls that are turning one this week and she was much much wider. I hope she doesn't keep her truck like proportions.

I have also taken her out of the bath seat so she just sits in there now which she is loving. Taurean, your post reminded me that DS was a serial bath pooer, up until after he was 1. Then I was marvelling that A had only had a couple of accidents and then of course she dropped one in there. Luckily she is still a peanut butter kind of girl so it went down the plughole with no effort required.

Evening ladies

Sorry we have been MIA for the last few days. Hope everyone and bubs are good. Think we are both on the mend but got hit pretty hard by the colds that we got. Both of us ended up on antibiotics and they seem to have worked as we are slowly getting better. Felt like death warmed up for a few days. Wasn't helped by Sam's sleeping patterns being all over the shop. He got my hopes up one night sleeping from 7pm through to about 5am before he woke but was very short-lived as was back to waking a few times a night the next night. I think it was an accumulation of broken nights of sleep over 2 months that got to me. Sam's off the antibiotics now so hopefully his cough will go away naturally. I kindof side on the fence when it comes to antibiotics as I know their uses but don't want to get him used to taking them from a really early stage. Am trying as best possible to keep him to a routine during the day but is difficult when he is waking at differnt times during the night and therefore his day is starting at a different time each day!

Taurean too funny about Izzy and pooing in the bath. Sam pees the minute he is put in the bath which I assumed was due to the temp of the water but luckily hasn't pood yet! Art not sure what would be worse a nice nugget or peanut butter !!!! Congrats to your hubbie on his promotion. both of you must be so pleased but bummer about not going to Brissie though upside is at least you won't have any jetlag to deal. You must also be relieved about the result of the scan on her head. It certainly doesn't look big on her photos.

Art have you thought about Ebaying the baby stuff that you have? You might be surprised by how much stuff you'd be able to offload. You could try either packaging a number of items together rather than selling indivually. Wow to A wearing size 1. Sam is still wearing size 00 though I have just been stocking up on size 0 as top wise he is just about ready for them. I really wish there was some consistency with the sizes between brands. What will fit in one size doesn't fit in another. He's pretty slim so I think waists will always be an issue and I might need to make sure I get the ones that are adjustable. Bummer about A not sleeping in the car. Sam does if he is tired but I am crap about transferring without waking so I've been known to shout and shout at him to keep him awake until we get home! I must look more than slightly deranged to the other drivers.

nicola best of the luck with the baby market. Sounds like you will need to have eyes in the back of your head with regards to I crawling/creeping up on you.

Bob yah for commando crawling and sitting from crawling. Sam still has to achieve both of these. I keep willing him to do so though I know I will rue the day he starts. Our house is on a few different levels so lots of gates and lots of things to be put away. We'll just have to work out what to put everything !!!!! that we don't want him to touch. We will finally have the carpets sorted next week so I can try to get some semblance of order back into the house.

Sanchez - how you are you V going? PMSL at first about her taking food through straw and then saw it was short lived. Are you BLS or going down the puree road? I have the book by Annabel Karmel which I find great for different ideas of things to make and combinations. Isn't it funny the different ways babies wake. Sometimes Sam will wake up and talk away to himself and other times wakes up screaming like he is being murdered? Perhaps him and V are being murdered by the same person? How is her constipation going or has it sorted itself? How did you go with the different formulas. Was the Bellamys any good?

Sangie yah for Ethan waving. Too cute. Did you teach him or did he pick it up. Good idea for having your night off during the week. Like Taurean said I think it will work well for recharging batteries. They can take a hammering at times. Especially those that have 2 to look after! How is Ethern going with his helmet. He really doesn't look a bit bothered by it on the photos on FB.

Okay thats it for me for tonight. Hope I haven't missed anyone / anything.

Nighty night all

Kelly OMG so sorry just realised that I missed you and T. Sorry to hear that poor little T isn't to good. Hope the antibiotics work quickly and you both can go back to having proper nights sleep. Don't know if it would work with T but we put humidifier in Sam's room and it seemed to help with the coughing and waking. One of the other girls suggested it online here when I'd said that he was sick. I know I was very tempted to steal it from his room when I was coughing all night too! It may just have been the antibiotics working and cold working through the system but hey reckon we'll get good use of it over the next few years. Winter hasn't even really started yet so just wondering what they'll get when it does hit. Hope you're better soon. X

Hey ladies! LMAO on the poo in bath talk. I've heard lots of floating log stories but thankfully I'm yet to experience that joy (and hopefully won't!). Ethan tends to poo at around the same time every day which makes it easy to time his bath after the big event lol!

NW3, Ethan is going well with his helmet and yes it doesn't seem to bother him at all. We are going to the orthotics clinic this afternoon for a check up. Yes we taught Ethan how to wave. Well Elena mostly did, sat in front of him and waved and eventually he started doing it back. Glad to hear you and Sam are on the mend and hopefully you are both back to normal soon. I hear you on the peeing in the bath but Ethan tends to do it after I've got him out of the bath gggggrrrrrrrr!!!

Art, I sold some of my stuff on ebay too. I'm not bothering with the clothes, might save those for any future friends/family babies. I sold our bassinette, baby bath and capsule though. Felt kind of sad to be honest but we don't want any more kids so no point having it all hanging around I suppose. Wow on size 1 already! We are still on 0 mostly but I can see us moving up to 1's in the next couple of months. I tried Ethan without the bath seat but he kicks he legs so much (and drenches me in the process!) that he loses his balance and falls over. So we will be using the seat for a while longer!

Taurean, OMG at the missing guy living so close to you. I hope they find out what has happened to him. I don't blame you for staying with your parents and I bet you got spoilt haha! Hope your DH gets back soon, it sucks when they go away. Sounds like Miss Izzy has grown up a lot lately! Yes of course I bought something on my shopping trip lol! I really wasn't going to but then saw a gorgeous pair of ankle boots and yeah, couldn't leave them lol!

Nicola, sounds like you need eyes at the back of your head! Good luck at the baby market!

AFU we had DD's 3rd birthday which was a lot of fun, I love kids parties! I can't wait to start planning Ethan's lol! DH thinks I'm nuts (well if the shoe fits lol!). Ethan is slowly getting the hang of moving around. He wiggles around like a caterpillar and has brief moments of going on to knees and rocking. He can also bum shuffle a little too. So will be interesting to see if he decides to crawl or not. His favourite thing is standing though, gets a big grin on his face and starts jumping and taking steps when you hold him up. Better fly, today is catch up day with the housework. I'm so behind :( Have a great day xo :)

NW3, hope the colds are getting better. I would like to Ebay (Trademe) my baby stuff, but we live in the middle of nowhere so I doubt anyone would want to travel a couple of hours to pick it up.

Sangie, good job with E's cake! Hope you had fun with your housework. Did E crawl or bum shuffle? Bum shuffling seems to run in families.

Miss A is loving the activities we go to. She is such a social little thing. Today we went to music, at the end the kids all sit on a mat and have a biscuit so she walked (holding my hands) over there, plonked herself down and then got in a right tiz when she didn't get a biscuit (so her sap of a mum gave in and passed her one lol)
She also had a tumble off the couch today, so no more sitting up there for her.

Where is everyone?

Still no teeth, still no tricks.

I'm here!

LOL Art. She's just absorbing everything and then one day 'BAM' she'll start doing everything! No teeth here either! I don't mind, I love the gummy smiles.

Anyhow just a quickie from me. It's lovely outside today so we are going to try and tackle the garden. Enjoy the weekend :)

Oh man - i've missed heaps again. Tadhg has been quite sick, and I've still been working - so its been a busy week!
AM - hmm may look into a humidifier, we sat in a steamy bathroom with Tadhg every night and then had a shower with him before bed and that seemed to help decongest him - so it makes sense a humidifier would help too. I assume it doesnt make clothes and blankets damp? We've also now invested in baby balsam/vicks, karvol (smelly liquid you put on bub's blanket near their face to sniff), an ear thermometer... not cheap these little tikes! :D Sad to hear you guys have been sick too :( So not fun trying to look after a baby when you don't feel well. Hope you're on the mend xx

Taurean - I was going to say (kinda irrelevant now) Izzy's head is about the same as Tadhg's - large but looks normal - i think they have a similar head shape, just wide around the top bit you measure. Ditto on the clothing restrictions - I have to send back a cute top i got online cos there is no way he can fit it over his head lol. Izzy is doing really well - she sounds full on! I'm tired enough with Tadhg, and he sits in one place (apart from wanting to jump up and down on my knees) hehe

Sanchez - V sounds like such a character, it will be so interesting to see how her personality comes out as she gets older. I hope you are still feeling sane with all this jiggling to sleep etc :) She is a real cutie too. No advice on formula sorry - we use S26 and i think it smells foul. But i do know you can get free samples from most of the websites - karicare, heinz etc - so that might be helpful? My plunket nurse told me i need to put Tadhg on a new formula to increase his iron - i'm pretty sure its just panic about nothing, i'd rather he kept pooping really! Cute that V liked sucking the fruit up. Tadhg is a one minute wonder too - every day i think i've found something he likes and then he just changes his mind the next day. I generally resort to crap food, which i never thought i would... he usually seems to like snax crackers, plain biscuits, tinned peaches (he just grabs a whole slice), raisins. Then anything else he eats is a bonus!

And also - i think we have teeth coming, finally i can see a bit of white on his gums. Still not much else new, he is awesome at peeka boo aka 'where's Tadhg?', he thinks he is hilarious!, trying to encourage waving, clapping and pointing to parts of my face - but they can only learn so much at once i guess :) 9 months today! Tadhg has now officially been out longer than in!

I'm being called for a phone call with the inlaws. Be back during the week to touch base with everyone.
Hope the rest of you are well xxx

I'm here too! This week has been super busy. We now have something on each week day to keep us busy and most importantly, keep me happy! Our house cleaner started this week too so it's been a damn good week. :D

Kelly - T and Iz do have very similar heads, don't they! I've thought that before, both the shape and lack of hair, LOL! Everyone is quite surprised when I mention that Izzy's head is off the chart, it just doesn't look that big. I'm sure she'll grow into it eventually. According to my mum, we all grew into our 'huge' heads. :rolleyes: How cute is peek-a-boo. Izzy loves it too. It's so adorable!

Art - is A really standing unsuported?! That is one very clever party trick!!! Izzy is cruising the furniture and pulling up on everything and she can stand holding onto something with one hand but not completely unsuported. That is impressive! Love the new pics on FB. I admire you for letting her get in amongst the mud. I need to let Izzy go nuts in some filth one day soon. Oh, and PMSL at the mental image of our girls together - the Pea and Pumpkin heads. LOL!

Sangie - great job on Miss E's birthday cake! Looks like she had a fun birthday. Did she love her pressies?

AM - Izzy's sleeps are all over the place lately too. She's teething again (looks like her top two are on their way) and she's had a virus. She lost her voice and has been hoarse for a week now! She seems to be on the mend now but has been waking about an hour after going to bed (needing a cuddle to fall back to sleep) then waking for a feed throughout the night too. She slept with me 3 out of 4 nights while at my parents she was that bad. She's slept better the past two nights though and even slept until 8.30 yesterday morning once we brought her into our bed when she woke at 6am. Sure beat starting my day at 6am! So is your new carpet finally being laid this week?!

Nicola - how'd you go at the baby markets?

AFU - all good here. Missy has been sick with a virus (which I had too) and has been teething too so we've had a marvellous week, not. I was so glad I decided to go to my parents while DH was away. The extra pairs of hands were very helpful! Iz slept with me 3 out of 4 nights as she just kept grizzling in her sleep, poor poppet. I was dosing her up on Nurofen, Panadol and Highlands Teething tablets just to help dull the pain. She seems to be getting better now although her voice is still a bit hoarse.

Izzy discovered our oil heater in the lounge today. It scared the hell out of her and warmed her hands a little too much but she was ok. It freaked me out though as it was like someone put our lives in slow motion at that point, I just couldn't get to her quick enough and just watched her little face grimace as she realised the thing she was holding was pretty darn hot! It was awful but hey, she's fine and we've all learned a lesson from it.

Our new house cleaner started on Thursday and boy was it awesome! I feel so lucky to have a cleaner but I think DH feels even luckier that his happy wife has found her way home, LOL! It's just the perfect solution to help get me out of my rut as I'm forced to leave the house for 3 hours every Thursday and if it's a nice day, I'm going walking with one of my friends and her bub. Last week I met two friends at the cafe on the river near our house so not only did we have a nice morning tea on the river but we had a great walk AND the house was spotless on our return home. I was on cloud nine that afternoon. I had no idea how much the stress of letting the housework go was getting to me.

Bed time for me. I'm expecting another wakeup call at some random hour, it seems to be the norm again now. :doh:

Night!

I am here too!

Taurean - you have just made me one envious woman with the thought of a housecleaner. I would be happy if someone would just clean our wooden floors and the bathrooms tiles - they are both the stuff i hate. Thats terrifying about the heater......now they are on the move I guess things like that are bound to happen, thank goodness it wasn't an open fire. That photo of her is so adorable on your Ticker. She is quite the little miss.

Kelly - Thats is no good about T being sick, and Izzy for that matter. I have been quite surprised at how many times V has been sick....hope this doesn't mean her life will be plauged with sickness. I have been putting the baby balsalm on V - don't know i it did much though. We got a humidifyer called a Hippo and it is good because it lasts 7 hours so it goes through the night without a refill.

With a quick push of the keyboard V managed to freeze and then crash the computer. I haven't finished my post but will get back to it at some stage!
Didn't want you thinking I was rude!

Hi all - looks like we've all been here but not posting. Funny how 8-9 month old babies can take up so much time.

Sanchez - so V is going for a career in computers eh? They are so cute the way they always want to be doing what you are doing. Sam constantly grabs for my keys now and screams (very loudly in annoyance) when I take them away. I may need to just get a set to give him so that I can actually drive the car get into the house when I want to !!!!! How is she going these days? Have you had any joy with any of the formulas? It must be touch trying to get her to take it. The upside to all the feeding issues I had in the begining means that Sam will take formula no problem and doesn't appear to be fussy in relation to what one it is. We're also using S26 Gold. He got really bad nappy rash when he was on the Nan don't know if it was the Nan that caused it but stopped using it and went back to the S26.

Kelly - thats not good that poor little T has been sick. Least they are building up their immune system for futher down the track I guess. We have the Taav brand but I do see that it is a Vaporiser rather than humidifier. (Sent hubbie to get it and this is what he came back with - don't know if there is much difference between the two or which brand is better/worse). I set it up other side of the room from where he sleeps and he or room didn't seem damp. We got one of the ear thermometers too when he was sick in Ireland. he just doesn't sit still long enough to do the under arm bit. Expensive things but worth it. Are you going full BLS with T or making any meals for him. I've a lovely cod, sweet potato and orange receipe that Sam loves if you want it.

Taurean - poor little Izzy with the oil heater. We are starting to baby proof the house and move everything up onto higher ground. Not that Sam is cruising or even crawling yet though he is now starting to pull himself up by the side of the cot so no doubt both of these won't be toooo far away. We've ended up having to buy some new furniture that is more baby proof - new entertainment unit and shelves oh and I tossed in a new wardrobe for his room. I think he has more clothes that Chris and I put together though given that we literlly need a change after every meal its probably just as well! It really sounds like you have your hands full with her motoring around. Well done on getting a cleaner. DH has suggested to me that we get one mainly to do hoovering and bathrooms. There is only so much you can in the limited time that they are sleep for. Hope her night waking sorts itself out. It really is tiring when you have broken sleep.

Art cant believe you are saying that A doesn't have any tricks. Just look at her standing and the proud little look on her face. Sam tries to standing but wobbles and wobbles like he's had waaaaayyy to much to drink. And you said she was able to walk holding your hands. The new piccies on FB are fab. I really have to sit down and load up mine over the last few months. Thats a shame that you live to far away for Trademe to work. Any local papers that you could try to sell the stuff in? I am sure you are not the only with littlies.

Sangie - hope your gardening went well. We had crap weather in Sydney all weekend rained and rained so no outdoor activities. How did you go with the follow up visit to the ortothics clinic. Is everything going okay?

AFU well had a very unsettled weekend though I think the reason made its appearance today. His 2nd little tooth has popped through. He was really fussy all over the weekend and didn't want to feed either milk or solids - unless of course it was the middle of the night and then he was happy to BF. he had me in tears at the weekend thinking I was going to starve him when he wouldn't take anything. Silly i know but guess thats what happens when your tired. We were supposed to go out on the Saturday night but the babysitter fell through so I ended up staying at home. Was just as well as he was up quite a bit. He is also (albeit several months late) now staring to move around in his cot and roll over on this tummy and hasn't worked out how to roll back yet. He is also just starting to make actions like he trying to work out what crawling is so I think all those combined will mean I'll be up in the middle of the night for a while longer.

Nothing else much to relate though half the carpets are in and other half gets done this week. We now have our bedroom and more importantly my beautiful bed back and I am currently packing up the living room area so that carpet can go in there. (well okay actually I'm on here but in theory that is what I should be doing). I am soo soo soo looking forward to having my house back.

On that note I will go and do some packing before the little man wakes up. Speak soon and kisses to bubs Xx