I've been neglecting my little ol' blog lately. It's not for lack of computer time- far from it. I've been spending way too much time on Facebook and just general net surfing. Plus, I really don't think I have anything interesting to say!

Elizabeth is an absolute joy. She is almost sitting now- she has sat up for about 10 seconds a few times. She does this hilarious attempt at crawling whereby she throws her arms and legs forwards then drags her body over to where her limbs are. It is very funny to watch.

She is eating heaps of food. We're not really doing baby led solids per se; rather, I give her the same foods we eat. If what I'm eating needs to be eaten with a spoon (porridge, bolognese sauce,rice), then I will feed her; otherwise, she feeds herself. Her favourite finger foods are pawpaw, banana, pear, rice and corn thins, cheese, and omelette. I don't puree anything and I certainly don't buy baby food- never have, never will. I'm not saying that there is anything nutritionally wrong with commercial baby food. It is just completely wasteful to buy tiny little jars of food when babies can eat normal family foods.

Jimmy has had a run of illness lately. Firstly he had bullous myringitis- very painful blisters on his eardrum, then suspected measles. He's fine now and all of his spots are gone, but he had to miss 2 days of daycare. It's so difficult to get him back into the swing of things if he misses a day when he only goes one day a week.

He is such a clown. He says the funniest things- this morning he said to me, "Can I fart on your head?". He loves playing hide and seek, chasey, and Duplo. He has quite an obsessive personality and likes things to be 'just so'. He cannot walk past the recliner in the games room without putting it in the recline position (regardless of whether someone is standing in front of it and gets knocked in the shins!), and lately he has made a ritual of peeing into a cup when he gets into the bath.

Me- I'm good. I'm expressing 3 times a day for Elizabeth. I am finding it really easy to get up at 5:15am every day. I never would have thought that I could survive on 7 hours of sleep every night!

Something very exciting is happening this weekend...my band is having its first rehearsal! I just can't wait. I love playing my flute in the orchestra but it can get a bit boring. Playing in big bands is so much fun. I am looking forward to getting my saxophone playing back up to a good standard as I haven't really played since 2005 when I was gigging every weekend with the Chancellor Big Band.