MM - so sorry to hear that you had to lose your tube. No wonder you had a breakdown after fasting for 3 days!! Big hugs out to you.

Trill - poor little Paige gettting sick on her birthday. Gorgeous cake though!

Clare - sounds like you need someone else to do the bidding for you at the next auction if DH gets cold feet!!

Gosh, K sounds like a tiny little thing still in size 1's!! Would love to see them all these lot together!!

We haven't tried K with a knive, but she's pretty good with a fork. She is very good with proper cups but they are only used under supervision. She has her smoothies in a cup and if we are out she will drink out of our cups. I'm just lazy I suppose, so much easier to wash a sippy cup than the floor or the lounge!!

Didn't end up going to the zoo today, the forecast looked better for tomorrow so we will go then. Did a heap of cooking today (pumpkin soup, two types of dhal and some chicken casserole) so the freezer is chockers. Also went for a great long walk today while DH was driving around with K trying to get her to sleep.

The last 5 weekends K has only gone down for one easy day nap (and she came home from day care the next day with a temp so was probably coming down with something already). Twice I have got her to sleep by standing in the doorway and saying 'lie down Katie' every time she moves her head. Every other time we have had to take her for a drive or a pram walk and she crashes about 5 minutes into it - so it's not like she doesn't need the sleep. She is sleeping fine at childcare (did 2.5 hours yesterday) and has not refused to sleep there at all, just at home. So frustrating that DH and I don't get that time to ourselves in the middle of the day, or we get stuck in the car looking after her and can't get anything done around the house. I'm dreading the school holidays, I should change my leave and have the second week off and hope like crazy that DH sorts her out in the first week at home!!