Sabrina glad the return to work was ok and that you get to have some sort of Me time on the bus at least. I used to always listen to audiobooks but even that is now difficult and it took me about a 10 days to listen to a shortish one (new one by Terry Pratchett) recently. I think you may have mentioned what you are teaching but I forgot. Is it American History or something related? How do you like your students so far and what age range are they? Hope they are interesting and intelligent so that you enjoy teaching them
Clio I am glad you are reconciled with the whole Facetime thing. I suppose if I didn't have to show my face I would be ok with it too lol
But yeah I am sure your mum must be thrilled to be able to watch J do all these things!
I wanted to ask you about the cheerios you give J. Are they just the normal ones or one of the others? I had a look and there seem to be three types as far as I can make out? Is one type less sugary than the rest? I am so at sea with sugar and salt contents, which is why I find giving pouches so much easier
Also I wanted to comment on the toy thing.First of all, how is J doing with his miracle toy and the walking? We really need to move to a bigger place so that when the time comes the boys can have a toy like that AND the room to actually push it around lol.
But what I wanted to say also is, I don't think that the car you originally posted is especially boyish unless the whole film was more for boys than girls? I am not into the whole gender neutral thing myself to be honest but would have no problem if either of my boys wanted an easy bake oven or something like that. I would however draw the line at a Barbie (though I would be reluctant to the extreme to buy one even had I a daughter. Cause although I had them myself as a kid, I hate them!) Are you trying to find toys that are gender neutral or are you just against stereo types? A few weeks ago there was a huge debate in baby club after a mother posted that her parents had a problem with her 3 year old son choosing to be dressed in a dress and strappy sparkly sandals. It got quite heated. Don't know if you saw it? It was quite interesting.
Leeze re AF, you are sweet but it would be unfair towards my poor OH who would then have to take more than one night in a row. And though Dominic has improved SOOO much sleep wise, it is still tiring having to get up at least twice every night. Besides, Dominic has now taken to being awake for about an hour after his 4am feed and shouting and chatting in his bed. This means who ever has night duty cannot go to bed, even though Dom would probably self settle eventually, cause who ever is allowed to sleep that night would be woken up from the noise over the monitor. But AF isn't so bad that I need to curl up in a corner or anything. I just feel a lil fragile the first day or so.
Rowan and Leeze we have a kitchen but are definitely also on jars and pouches. However, a fellow mum (La Rockera) whose journal I follow, recently posted that apparently there is quite a high arsenic content in baby rice.
So today we threw out all the jars with anything like rice in it. Which is a shame cause my boys adore porridge especially but there is rice starch in there. Not sure yet if that counts but I haven't had time to research yet. But isn't this shocking?! Apparently the arsenic is within levels that are permissible but those levels are for adults and no one knows for sure if they are also ok for babies. I just don't understand why there would be any arsenic in it at all? So yes I am still very impressed with Leeze and Clio for cooking.
As for us, we went to the doctor's on Monday cause Sebastian's eczema had spread to his tummy, inside of elbows and the creases above his feet. He had scratched his face bloody on Saturday as well poor baby! So we got a new cortisone cream we are to mix with an emollient twice a day and apply when he has a flare up. Even after just 2 days it is heaps better! Still, I wouldn't trust him not to scratch so he is still sleeping in his woombie for now. This didn't prevent him scratching his arms though cause he somehow managed to insert his hands up the opposite sleeve and have a jolly hard scratch! OH has clipped his finger nails but even when they are short, if he wants to scratch to the blood he can
But we also asked about Dominic's weight cause my mother has been on about it and saying that I was setting him up to be fat all his life etc. Grr! Well the doctor did not find him fat at all and said not to worry about it and that many babies his age do not sleep through and want their night time feeds. He thought it was totally normal. So that is a relief!
Hmm what else. Oh yes. Sebastian has taken to the solids soo much! He opens his mouth properly to receive the spoon and even leans forward to half meet it! It is soo cute! He leans forward more if I am too slow with the next spoon full and makes the cutest little fishmouth!
He is also starting to try and reach for my cup when I drink coffee in front of him and examines it very closely when I bring it close to him. he holds on to it with both hands and tries to pull it to his mouth. I won't let him of course and I always make sure the cup isn't hot or could knock him in the mouth! So I think he will be ready for finger foods much sooner than Dom. Dom still eats off the spoon as if he was sipping on hot soup and won't open his mouth properly. He also likes to dribble half of his food out of his mouth again. Luckily we hve found bibs with sleeves and plastic undercoating or I would have to change them after every feed. lol
Hmm what else... I forgot again, so this will be it for now xxx
Martha!!! Of COURSE she is saying those things! J would be very clear the first time or two, and then he became a slacker and shorten them, or muddle them. As my BIL says, once they start talking, it goes very fast; they just add and add words to their vocab. As for the standing: 
)! My husband says the same thing: don't worry about the cost (though some of it is covered by his insurance), you NEED to do it if it's interfering with your quality of life and your ability to take care of LO. Physio went fine, but we're dialling back the difficulty of the exercises anyway because I start prolotherapy next week. I'll explain more of what that is when I start to do it--it's pretty convoluted.
