The season is almost upon us...

Charlie is eight months old and still will not sit up. He commando crawls all over the place but has no interest what so ever in sitting. I am finding this most inconvenient at bath times as I have to hold him in the bath or put him in the holder which requires more water. Well Im sure soon enough he will be sitting. He is a cheeky little bugger and gives the cutest, biggest grins and is sleeping pretty well now.

Henry is the ruler of the house and I have come to realise that what Henry wants, Henry gets. He is a very determined little boy, I am always finding a sept at the fridge or pantry. He has worked out that if he unlatches the latch at the pantry and then moves the step away the door will open. He doesnt bother to ask for anything, he is independant. He is getting pretty good using the potty, he takes himself off to the potty most of the time and half the time I don't even know he has gone. Although we are still having an accident or two everyday, but Im sure he will have it down pat by christmas (well I'm hoping).

Well christmas is just around the corner and I'm not all that organised just yet, it's more to do with who are and are not buying present for. Henry is getting a bike so that will be exciting, Damon and I both have bikes that have practicely never been used and I would like to get a seat for Charlie to go on one of our bikes. It will be nice to take them all up to Kalbarri next year. For our christmas cards this year I tried to take some xmas photos of the kids but they really were not very interested. So I ended up using one from the family photo shoot earlier in the year so everyone will be getting a family photo rather than one of the boys and I got photo cards made from Snapfish.

There he was standing in a puddle

Charlie is commando crawling flat out all over the place. If he is put down in one spot and you look back a minute later he is on the other side of the room. He still refuses to sit up, I sat him up in the bath the other day and he sat nice and straight for about 30 seconds then he lay back. I try to sit him down but he just falls back onto his back and thinks its a great game.

Last Thursday I bought S26 Formula AR for babies with reflux and Charlie slep all through the night until 4am when I gave him another bottle and he then slept till 7. Then Friday night the same and Saturday night he had his first sleep over at Grandma and Grandpa'a where he woke briefly a couple of times. Sunday night we didn't hear a peep out of him until 5am when he had a bottle and went back to sleep until around 6.30am. Before Thursday we have had a lot of trouble with Charlie waking all through the night with reflux so the formula must work.

We have decided that Henry at 2yrs and 8mths should be using the potty instead of nappies. The other day I walked past the lounge room to see a bare dumb so I asked Henry what he was doing and he said "I've done poos so I'm taking my nappy off". That day he did two wees in the potty. Today I took his nappy off and sat him on the potty and gave him a drink and ran the tap but nothing happened. Later I remembered he had not peed yet so I asked him if he needed a wee and he said he had done one and he led me to the potty and there was a bit wee in the potty, I was very impressed. Later I asked him again if he needed to wee and there he was standing in a little puddle and wet tracky pants.