Phew, just finished reading the posts on this thread! Need a coffee now. Great to hear it's mostly good news and that some not-so-nice-episodes got better.
I'm bugging dh at the moment to download the holiday pics so I could bore you all to tears. Am hoping to get a couple up tonight before you all come back tomorrow morning and tell me to restrain myself.
I'm slightly worried about R's eagerness to move around at the moment... The crawling (or moving forwards in a manner that would make any grasshopper mother extremely proud most of the time) is fine, but he's now figured out how to pull himself up into a standing position, making the me-leaving-him-on-the-ground thing slightly unsafe in a sitting room where the "coffee table" is a sharp-cornered wooden chest. Hmm. I wonder if I could cover the corners in upholstery foam and pretend it's some hot artist's take on the fusion between old and new, history and future, nature and man. I suspect it will however look like a babyfied old chest. Oh, I'm sure he'll look just fine covered in bruises, won't he??
O btw, Ellie, if you're considering your win-an-Ellie-as-a-neighbour competition again, let me know, I want to participate too. Mine is, well, ...., hmm. Not so stable might be the kind way to describe her. You're normal most of the time, right?
Oh, and lastly (although I'll probably post again in 30 seconds), I don't like this "breaking for the weekend" thing happening this weekend. Dh think I'm talking to you guys "live" now, and I'm not willing to admit that the it's a crowd of one. So by having a life, you're turning me into a lier. Surely that's not right? Right? I've missed you guys and demand a regroup.