Well, this is very VERY late update, I've just checked below, and I haven't posted since just before Christmas...
To be honest, I found I was hiding from stuff I should've been getting on with by lurking and posting here. Mind you it's taken me another 6 months after that realisation to really feel I'm starting to get my sh** together! When I last posted dd (Ava) was going to see a specialist about her head shape - well, she did have to have a helmet & has been sporting a rather natty see-through acrylic little number ever since. The good thing is she took to it really easily, & it's no bother for her at all, although it gets a wee bit sweaty in the hot weather. It's good for head-butting her cousins - which, of course, I discourage as much as possible! They'll keep it on as long as it keeps working. She's got 2 teeth - finally - only came last month. She's standing & pulling up on anything she can. Chatting away 10 to the dozen with occasional 'almost-words' in there. Likes singing, giggling, emptying waste paper baskets, destroying tissues, pulling over her nappy bucket (TWICE on Monday, grrrrr!). Just stopped screaming blue murder every time you put her on the changing table, or try to dress her - that little phase lasted a very long 3 weeks! Loves swings, roundabouts, dogs, bigger children. Very good at pointing & knowing exactly what she wants, eats everything in sight, especially whatever anyone else is having. In short, she's entirely gorgeous & delightful & it just keeps getting better all the time, doesn't it?!
And she's been here nearly a year - how amazing is that?
Once in a while I get those sudden moments of 'how on earth did you get here? And where did you come from?' but it's always paired with 'And I'm SO GLAD you're here!'
So just to say, thanks to you all for help, support and chat you all provided in this 1st year, and sorry I haven't been on at all lately, but it really meant so much to me to have you there in those 1st few mad, mad months.
xoxoxoxo