Here was my afternoon: I got home literally as the bus brought Snail home. I wheel her in with a sooky 2 year old who has just woken up. I let the dogs in. I wonder what the hell that stuff is Mr B is eating. Turns out it's cat shit. The cat has shat on my new red rug. And Mr B has eaten it. I clean up the remaining cat shit. L is crying for boob. I give boob. And then "other booby". Some more boob. Make snacks and drinks. Give snacks and drinks to chidlers while fending off dogs. Watch Ice Age 2 *again*. Surf net for a bit while trying not to let the Lolster empty her water on my laptop *again*. More boob. Fend off Snail with my foot while she has jealous rage about the boobing. Realise I have to go get Smash from his bus after soccer practice. Go to get Snail in chair. Realise she has a poo. While going to get a nappy for her, step in the giant piss that Mr B has done in my hallway, despite the back door being OPEN. Get nappy, fight with Snail to change poo. Get poo on my hands and Snail's foot. Swear some more. Clean up. Realise I need new pants for Snail. Go to get pants and slip in dog wee again. Get pants. Put on kid. Put old towel on dog wee. Put kid in wheelchair, while she's holding the world's biggest toy because apparently putting it down is made of horror. Wheel kid and escort toddler to car. Load in car (still holding toy). Park chair. Get Smash. Come home. Load kid in chair (toy). Escort toddler and wheel kid upstairs. Unload (toy some more). Put Ice Age back on as I have to cook tea. Listen to the crying coz it's not Blue's Clues. Put on Blue's Clues and listen to the crying coz it's not Ice Age. Decide which crying is worse. Put Ice Age back on. Cook dinner. Wrestle kids. DinnerDad gets home. Eat dinner, DinnerDad does baths, try to watch Masterchef over the yells and enthusiastic ballon wrestling being done by all three kids. DinnerDad takes Snail to bed. Balloon wrestle with toddler til after 9pm. Take toddler to bed. Give 9 different sides of boob to toddler before she FINALLY goes to sleep. come out and fail to (apparently) divide pie accurately and add icecream. Yell at husband. Eat pie. Write in blog. Just another day *doing nothing*.
:D
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
A last minute holiday!
I have not been a faithful blogger of late, for which I'm sorry, as it's been such a great way to record our lives, and Lolly growing and changing. I am thinking of using this blog as a place to write more about the everyday-ness of parenting, so will be exploring some of that in future. But til then, here is a condensed (kind of) version of our trip to Sydney! Excuse the photos, I took my good camera, but didn't even get it out of the bag! So these are from my phone.
DinnerDad had a conference he decided to go to, so Lolly and I hitched a ride with him, courtesy of our frequent flyer points. We stayed at a great apartment/hotel, Mantra 2 Bond, which was very nice, and big enough in the room to contain a toddler, thank the gods. We flew down Sunday, Lolly and I on a different flight to DinnerDad, and Lolly's first seat all by herself (as she's now 2)! All I can say is thank goodness, as flying down with a large restless kid on your lap was getting a little old. And also she was just adorable in her seat.
So we played, read books, snacked on biccies, and watched Wallace and Gromit on my laptop, all in all a good flight, she LOVED taking off and landing, looking round and out the window with big grins. Once we'd negotiated the train system and checked in, we all set off to Circular Quay for a wander round and look-see. And ice cream :D
Here's a happy kid playing in the hotel room.
Next day, I had planned to meet up with a lovely Sydney friend, but she was held hostage to a sick kiddo and a lurgy of her own, so Lolly and I soldiered on regardless, hiking down to Darling Harbour for a fantastic brekky, then to the Sydney Aquarium, where Lolly had THE BEST time, walking round looking at everything, exclaiming loudly over fish of all sorts, sharks, dugongs, whatever, she loved em all. Except for the divers in the big tanks cleaning, they were apparently visions of terror and she had to cover her eyes and demand "pick up, Mummy, I scared!" All together now....nawwwwwwwww
A crocidile "snap".
Fish girl.
More fish girl.
DinnerDad rang us in time for lunch, he escaped his first day with a short session, so hung out with us intrepids for the rest of the day. Here is chocolate face girl at the Lindt cafe on the Harbour. Can I just add here, the mocha I had there was nom nom nom.
Which was mostly wandering round the Harbour, looking and wondering about the odd shops they have at Harbourside, the nature of capitalism, and walking calmly and slowly, all the better to get your kid to sleep in the stroller. Once she conked, we went back to the city via the Monorail (which I persist in loving despite it's tacky, expensive and uncool nature - it just reminds me of Expo '88). After grub awoke, we walked down to Circular Quay and popped into the Contemporary Art Museum on the Harbour, though most of it is closed, so a little underwhelming I have to say, and not great for kids. A walk round the Rocks, then we got pizza (which was apparently made of gold it was so expensive) and took it back to the room, where Lolly demolished a few slices (at least the toppings :D) and we generally wished we had got three instead of two and that DinnerDad makes better pizzas in his sleep.
Next day, still no friend as lurgy was on the increase :( so I reprised most of the previous day by taking Lolly back to the Harbour for Sydney Wildlife World - lol - what can I say, I got a discount ticket at the Aquarium, and Lolly loved the "toddler get down and walk and look at stuff" format, and it's air conditioned. So, after a detour to Myer to get some adorable new shoes for her (she got blisters in the old ones) that's what we did. Had to motor through the entrance though, it was an Invertebrate collection - eeeppp, not for the Arachnophobes, I kept Lolly in the stroller til we got to some more civilised creatures.
Lolly loved the night creature section (after getting past the scary bat sculpture), the mice, rats, and marsupial hoppy creatures, and the possums. She says Possum, (lol - actually, she had a whole "possum go sleep in roof up there" due to our sadly neglected possum issues here at home), but mostly called them "catpuss" which is her current name for our cat. She liked the snakes (sorry Mum!) and the wallabies.
They have a giant crocodile there, which she exclaimed muchly over, "croc-dile go snap snap", generally being the cutest thing on the planet all day :D - Lolly that is, not the crocodile. Here it is, this shot totally does not capture how friggin huge and scary it is - the crocodile, that is, not Lolly.
Here she is pressed up against the glass, I think this is the kangaroo enclosure (that was just sad, giant creatures in their little glass box, too sad).
We went off and made our way back to the hotel, but damn, she fell asleep before we got back and didn't transfer to the bed so that bit was a disaster. For me anyway, had been looking forward to some couch and book time. So after some lunch and sitting round watching her new favourite, Ice Age, 1 and 3, I've only just downloaded 2, it was only 3pm and there's no way I was waiting round in the room til DinnerDad finished for the day. So off we set again, for a long walk up through the city, through Hyde Park (gorgeous, but friggin no stroller accessible AT ALL other than on one side, much stunt driving to get back to the street) to get to the Australian Museum, where we got in free due to the late hour. Here's a shot of the walk up to the park, St Stephens Cathedral (I think :D). Just beautiful, especially as we're in the middle of the city here amid all the grunge and grime, you walk up into the park to be greeted with this. All very impressive and you can totally see why ye olde peeps were so impressed by god.
We checked out the dinosaurs (lolly is quite obsessed with Dinosaur-Roar's) which she loved, other than the huge skeleton at the end which had scary noises and lights, she covered her eyes for that one ("I scared"). And they had a cool skeleton exhibit, humans, fish, dogs, cats, etc. Lolly liked the "ant" or elephant and we had some good chats about how we all have bones inside us. There was a speccy wildlife photography exhibit too, we snuck in for free and the shots were amazing. Envious here :D After closing we set off back to walk across town to "find Dadda, where's Dadda, let's find Dadda," and so on. You'll be pleased to know we found him. Room service dinner of very average $20 hamburgers and salad. Early night from the Lollster due to no real nap. Phew!
Wednesday we set off again, had breakfast on Circular Quay. On the walk around the Quay, I saw everyone snapping pictures of the Bridge, and soon joined them, as it turns out the Bridge was in the middle of a cloud. Very ethereal and amazing, the rest of the sky was totally clear. The little tips at the top are the flags on the top of the Harbour Bridge.
So we had breakfast there, as I had foolishly thought that "it looks like a short walk up to the Art Gallery across the Botanical Gardens from the Opera House" - idiot! It was MILES and all uphill in the hot sun. blerg. And I was running late, as I was meeting some lovely online friends there for a catch up. Got there eventually (grumble stoopid map grumble grumble) and met up with several of my online friends at the Gallery. Now the Gallery is awesome. There was some work there by the HSC students that was just amazing, and I paid my moneys and saw the Archibald Prize entrants, too, which was good. I'd not seen them before so thought I'd catch it while I was there. The 19 and 20th century stuff is gorgeous, in the old wing of the original building, the Lord Leightons and Waterhouse, I love that shit. Lolly conveniently slept through all this art viewing, which was great for me as I went at adult pace not "OMG I'm so BORED" toddler speed. We found some lunch and met up with everyone at a little fenced park behind the swimming pool near there for a play, Lolly liked it, but needed lots of supervision as she taught herself to climb the ladder to the slide and slide down herself (two firsts for her - nawwwww). It was lovely to meet and re-meet some great women and their kids, who made us very welcome!
What goes (very slowly and usually with maternal assistance) up -
- must come doooooowwwwwwwnnnnnnn!!
Off back to the hotel, and we went out to a restaurant on the Harbour for tea, Chinese, which was average and expensive. I get so spoiled because DinnerDad is such a great cook and recently did a whole authentic China thing, so normal chinese at exhorbitant prices is hard to be happy about. Lolly liked the night time walk along the Quay. We stayed up to watch the SYTYCD final (luckily Robbie won, so now DinnerDad didn't have to threaten that "he'd never watch this show again" lol).
Thursday was our last day, we did our last packing and set off (DinnerDad had left with the main bag already), up to town, then on the monorail to the Powerhouse Museum, we ate a late breakfast at the playground cafe they have there. Then a tour of all the fantastic kid play spaces they have there (too quickly, we had to go catch our flight) and Lolly loved all that. Here she is in the building zone.
Then back on the monorail, to the train, to the plane. And off home. Lolly enjoyed the flight, but fell asleep just after we landed (after loudly saying "more bump bump bump" coz she loved the landing so much) which meant I had my great big bag, her bag with books and the computer in it, and a 20 kilo toddler to lug to the baggage area to get the stroller. It was not fun (though a channel 9 newsreader carried Lolly's bag for me most of the way, which was ace. We are reading the same book - lol). But I got there, and Lolly tranferred to the stroller, then to the car, then slept all the way home, which as a good friend M and I were saying, makes you feel like an awesome parent even though it really had nothing to do with me. All this was followed by explodingly excited dogs, and much TV watching all night.
Phew. It was so much fun, we saw heaps of touristy things, and Lolly had a BALL! Can't wait for our next impromptu adventure!!
DinnerDad had a conference he decided to go to, so Lolly and I hitched a ride with him, courtesy of our frequent flyer points. We stayed at a great apartment/hotel, Mantra 2 Bond, which was very nice, and big enough in the room to contain a toddler, thank the gods. We flew down Sunday, Lolly and I on a different flight to DinnerDad, and Lolly's first seat all by herself (as she's now 2)! All I can say is thank goodness, as flying down with a large restless kid on your lap was getting a little old. And also she was just adorable in her seat.
So we played, read books, snacked on biccies, and watched Wallace and Gromit on my laptop, all in all a good flight, she LOVED taking off and landing, looking round and out the window with big grins. Once we'd negotiated the train system and checked in, we all set off to Circular Quay for a wander round and look-see. And ice cream :D
Here's a happy kid playing in the hotel room.
Next day, I had planned to meet up with a lovely Sydney friend, but she was held hostage to a sick kiddo and a lurgy of her own, so Lolly and I soldiered on regardless, hiking down to Darling Harbour for a fantastic brekky, then to the Sydney Aquarium, where Lolly had THE BEST time, walking round looking at everything, exclaiming loudly over fish of all sorts, sharks, dugongs, whatever, she loved em all. Except for the divers in the big tanks cleaning, they were apparently visions of terror and she had to cover her eyes and demand "pick up, Mummy, I scared!" All together now....nawwwwwwwww
A crocidile "snap".
Fish girl.
More fish girl.
DinnerDad rang us in time for lunch, he escaped his first day with a short session, so hung out with us intrepids for the rest of the day. Here is chocolate face girl at the Lindt cafe on the Harbour. Can I just add here, the mocha I had there was nom nom nom.
Which was mostly wandering round the Harbour, looking and wondering about the odd shops they have at Harbourside, the nature of capitalism, and walking calmly and slowly, all the better to get your kid to sleep in the stroller. Once she conked, we went back to the city via the Monorail (which I persist in loving despite it's tacky, expensive and uncool nature - it just reminds me of Expo '88). After grub awoke, we walked down to Circular Quay and popped into the Contemporary Art Museum on the Harbour, though most of it is closed, so a little underwhelming I have to say, and not great for kids. A walk round the Rocks, then we got pizza (which was apparently made of gold it was so expensive) and took it back to the room, where Lolly demolished a few slices (at least the toppings :D) and we generally wished we had got three instead of two and that DinnerDad makes better pizzas in his sleep.
Next day, still no friend as lurgy was on the increase :( so I reprised most of the previous day by taking Lolly back to the Harbour for Sydney Wildlife World - lol - what can I say, I got a discount ticket at the Aquarium, and Lolly loved the "toddler get down and walk and look at stuff" format, and it's air conditioned. So, after a detour to Myer to get some adorable new shoes for her (she got blisters in the old ones) that's what we did. Had to motor through the entrance though, it was an Invertebrate collection - eeeppp, not for the Arachnophobes, I kept Lolly in the stroller til we got to some more civilised creatures.
Lolly loved the night creature section (after getting past the scary bat sculpture), the mice, rats, and marsupial hoppy creatures, and the possums. She says Possum, (lol - actually, she had a whole "possum go sleep in roof up there" due to our sadly neglected possum issues here at home), but mostly called them "catpuss" which is her current name for our cat. She liked the snakes (sorry Mum!) and the wallabies.
They have a giant crocodile there, which she exclaimed muchly over, "croc-dile go snap snap", generally being the cutest thing on the planet all day :D - Lolly that is, not the crocodile. Here it is, this shot totally does not capture how friggin huge and scary it is - the crocodile, that is, not Lolly.
Here she is pressed up against the glass, I think this is the kangaroo enclosure (that was just sad, giant creatures in their little glass box, too sad).
We went off and made our way back to the hotel, but damn, she fell asleep before we got back and didn't transfer to the bed so that bit was a disaster. For me anyway, had been looking forward to some couch and book time. So after some lunch and sitting round watching her new favourite, Ice Age, 1 and 3, I've only just downloaded 2, it was only 3pm and there's no way I was waiting round in the room til DinnerDad finished for the day. So off we set again, for a long walk up through the city, through Hyde Park (gorgeous, but friggin no stroller accessible AT ALL other than on one side, much stunt driving to get back to the street) to get to the Australian Museum, where we got in free due to the late hour. Here's a shot of the walk up to the park, St Stephens Cathedral (I think :D). Just beautiful, especially as we're in the middle of the city here amid all the grunge and grime, you walk up into the park to be greeted with this. All very impressive and you can totally see why ye olde peeps were so impressed by god.
We checked out the dinosaurs (lolly is quite obsessed with Dinosaur-Roar's) which she loved, other than the huge skeleton at the end which had scary noises and lights, she covered her eyes for that one ("I scared"). And they had a cool skeleton exhibit, humans, fish, dogs, cats, etc. Lolly liked the "ant" or elephant and we had some good chats about how we all have bones inside us. There was a speccy wildlife photography exhibit too, we snuck in for free and the shots were amazing. Envious here :D After closing we set off back to walk across town to "find Dadda, where's Dadda, let's find Dadda," and so on. You'll be pleased to know we found him. Room service dinner of very average $20 hamburgers and salad. Early night from the Lollster due to no real nap. Phew!
Wednesday we set off again, had breakfast on Circular Quay. On the walk around the Quay, I saw everyone snapping pictures of the Bridge, and soon joined them, as it turns out the Bridge was in the middle of a cloud. Very ethereal and amazing, the rest of the sky was totally clear. The little tips at the top are the flags on the top of the Harbour Bridge.
So we had breakfast there, as I had foolishly thought that "it looks like a short walk up to the Art Gallery across the Botanical Gardens from the Opera House" - idiot! It was MILES and all uphill in the hot sun. blerg. And I was running late, as I was meeting some lovely online friends there for a catch up. Got there eventually (grumble stoopid map grumble grumble) and met up with several of my online friends at the Gallery. Now the Gallery is awesome. There was some work there by the HSC students that was just amazing, and I paid my moneys and saw the Archibald Prize entrants, too, which was good. I'd not seen them before so thought I'd catch it while I was there. The 19 and 20th century stuff is gorgeous, in the old wing of the original building, the Lord Leightons and Waterhouse, I love that shit. Lolly conveniently slept through all this art viewing, which was great for me as I went at adult pace not "OMG I'm so BORED" toddler speed. We found some lunch and met up with everyone at a little fenced park behind the swimming pool near there for a play, Lolly liked it, but needed lots of supervision as she taught herself to climb the ladder to the slide and slide down herself (two firsts for her - nawwwww). It was lovely to meet and re-meet some great women and their kids, who made us very welcome!
What goes (very slowly and usually with maternal assistance) up -
- must come doooooowwwwwwwnnnnnnn!!
Off back to the hotel, and we went out to a restaurant on the Harbour for tea, Chinese, which was average and expensive. I get so spoiled because DinnerDad is such a great cook and recently did a whole authentic China thing, so normal chinese at exhorbitant prices is hard to be happy about. Lolly liked the night time walk along the Quay. We stayed up to watch the SYTYCD final (luckily Robbie won, so now DinnerDad didn't have to threaten that "he'd never watch this show again" lol).
Thursday was our last day, we did our last packing and set off (DinnerDad had left with the main bag already), up to town, then on the monorail to the Powerhouse Museum, we ate a late breakfast at the playground cafe they have there. Then a tour of all the fantastic kid play spaces they have there (too quickly, we had to go catch our flight) and Lolly loved all that. Here she is in the building zone.
Then back on the monorail, to the train, to the plane. And off home. Lolly enjoyed the flight, but fell asleep just after we landed (after loudly saying "more bump bump bump" coz she loved the landing so much) which meant I had my great big bag, her bag with books and the computer in it, and a 20 kilo toddler to lug to the baggage area to get the stroller. It was not fun (though a channel 9 newsreader carried Lolly's bag for me most of the way, which was ace. We are reading the same book - lol). But I got there, and Lolly tranferred to the stroller, then to the car, then slept all the way home, which as a good friend M and I were saying, makes you feel like an awesome parent even though it really had nothing to do with me. All this was followed by explodingly excited dogs, and much TV watching all night.
Phew. It was so much fun, we saw heaps of touristy things, and Lolly had a BALL! Can't wait for our next impromptu adventure!!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
The Adult Privilege Checklist
This is just great, some very interesting food for thought - so I thought I'd share:
I have lots of photos to post from our recent doings, so will post again soon :D
http://shutupsitdown.co.uk/2009/11/1...ege-checklist/Interesting! Read the full list at the link.The Adult Privilege Checklist
As a child:
1. I am not legally allowed to vote, even though government makes decisions about me and people like me.
2. If I need a caregiver, he or she will not be my peer.
3. It is often considered acceptable, appropriate and even desirable for my caregiver to physically assault me if I do not please them.
a. In many places I can legally be physically disciplined in my place of education.
b. If I am hit, even once, by a loved one, that is not normally legally considered abuse.
c. It is likely that I am smaller than the person assaulting me, and that I will be unable to defend myself.
d. If I am behaving in a way others do not like (or my caregiver has decided they no longer wish to be in a certain place), it is considered acceptable to physically pick me up and forcibly remove me from the area/situation.
4. If I am routinely yelled at, criticized, and belittled in my own home, this might not generally be recognised as abusive behaviour.
a. My physical and emotional needs are often not treated as reasonable and important.
b. If I am angry or upset, this is often not taken seriously and I am often condescended and patronised.
5. I am almost always dependent on others for my economic support.
a. I do not get to make choices about family finances, when to spend money and on what.
b. If I am allowed to earn money at all, it will be at a lower rate than adults doing exactly the same work.
6. I am routinely ignored or told to be quiet.
a. If I am the only child in a group of people, I will often be shut out of the conversation or patronised.
b. It is considered acceptable to talk over me or to interrupt me while I am speaking.
7. When I display age-appropriate behaviour, other people find it unacceptable.
a. I cannot be ‘noisier/more active than average’ in a public place without people questioning my right to be in that place.
b. If I am ‘noisier/more active than average’ in a public place I risk myself and my caregiver being thrown out.
8. I cannot speak in public to a group of people without putting people my age on trial.
9. I do not have free choice with my language. If I use ‘unacceptable’ words I will often be punished.
[...]
18. I am not usually given a choice about my place of education (or whether to participate in education). If I am sent to school I am legally expected to attend, whether it is my choice or not. If I am home educated I might not be given the choice to go to school if I so wish.
- If I am late to my place of education I will probably be reprimanded, even if this is the fault of my adult caregiver.
- I am almost never permitted to choose my educational curriculum, materials, or pace.
- My educational evaluations will often be based on circumstances entirely outside my control–the actions of other students, or of my caregivers, or the learning materials available to me.
[...]
20. I might not be able to attend to my bodily needs (housing, food, water, toileting, health needs, taking myself to bed) without relying on someone else to assist me.
- I am often forced to eat foods I do not like.
- People might advocate force-feeding me, and this is not often seen as abusive.
- My bedtime is set (often arbitrarily) by my caregiver, and I often do not have input on this.
- I have no choice about my living space – the house I live in, its decoration, the arrangement of furniture etc.
- I often have no choice about my outward appearance – haircuts, clothing etc.
I have lots of photos to post from our recent doings, so will post again soon :D
Monday, March 15, 2010
On birthday parties, cake and pressies!
We had a family lunch for the girls' birthdays yesterday, Lolly is 2 on the 17th and Snail is 11 on the 26th :-o We had gourmet hotdogs and a massive cake!
Here is a foolish older brother and the cake!
Mmmmm...cake!
Cake!
Amazing Little Person garage for Lolly from Mum, Dad and Aunty :D It was a hit. Putting it together:
Playing:
Both girls love it!
A lovely flower for me from our roses :D
Here is a foolish older brother and the cake!
Mmmmm...cake!
Cake!
Amazing Little Person garage for Lolly from Mum, Dad and Aunty :D It was a hit. Putting it together:
Playing:
Both girls love it!
A lovely flower for me from our roses :D
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Getting back to it!
We have been snowed under with life "stuff" lately, and are just getting our heads above water now. So here's to more blogging in future, this place has been sadly neglected!
We've been busy bees, Lolly and I have been out and about heaps the last couple of weeks. We have a family party for the girls' birthdays tomorrow, so will be back to post pics from that :D Lolly is two on the 17th, and Snail is 11 on the 26th! Wow!
Lolly is an adorable bundle, her speech is just amazing, she has whole complex sentences now, like "Mummy, 'snap' [crocodile] fall down on the ground," and "Mummy, poss[ums] up there go sleep!" [please possums in our roof, go to sleep you noisy buggers!]. She is a little parrot, which is hilarious when she repeats complex words like "overlocker" or "credit card", and even funnier when she declares "shit!" just after I swear about something :D
Here is a cute pic from late Feb to tide you over, here she is colouring and playing "stick"-ers on her little table and Elmo chair, nawwwww.
Little gorgeous girl with super curls!
Fast asleep on the couch with head at a breakable angle!
We've been busy bees, Lolly and I have been out and about heaps the last couple of weeks. We have a family party for the girls' birthdays tomorrow, so will be back to post pics from that :D Lolly is two on the 17th, and Snail is 11 on the 26th! Wow!
Lolly is an adorable bundle, her speech is just amazing, she has whole complex sentences now, like "Mummy, 'snap' [crocodile] fall down on the ground," and "Mummy, poss[ums] up there go sleep!" [please possums in our roof, go to sleep you noisy buggers!]. She is a little parrot, which is hilarious when she repeats complex words like "overlocker" or "credit card", and even funnier when she declares "shit!" just after I swear about something :D
Here is a cute pic from late Feb to tide you over, here she is colouring and playing "stick"-ers on her little table and Elmo chair, nawwwww.
Little gorgeous girl with super curls!
Fast asleep on the couch with head at a breakable angle!
Monday, February 8, 2010
Catching up
I haven't posted for a couple of weeks as we've been flat out! My lovely friend had her baby, a boy, at home in her bedroom, it was so wonderful and a privilege to have been a part of it all. So much love to you and your family, M. It was one of the most amazing and wonderful experiences of my life to have been there, thank you so much :x
Here is me and the new squishy a couple of days later.
Little hands.
Dave had to go to hospital with abdominal pain on Australia Day, and spent two night there with a torsion of the omentum (rare and owie!). They took out his appendix too, so he has been sore and sorry for himself of late. He's doing well and is back at work today (lucky him!).
We've only now been getting back to our own busy visiting and playgroups and meets, here are some shot of Lolly trying out some stairs at a meet on Friday.
Playing at a meet on Thursday.
Cute girl helping me take shots of her nappies to sell (she grew out of em!).
I'll be posting a little more now that things are back to normal :D
Here is me and the new squishy a couple of days later.
Little hands.
Dave had to go to hospital with abdominal pain on Australia Day, and spent two night there with a torsion of the omentum (rare and owie!). They took out his appendix too, so he has been sore and sorry for himself of late. He's doing well and is back at work today (lucky him!).
We've only now been getting back to our own busy visiting and playgroups and meets, here are some shot of Lolly trying out some stairs at a meet on Friday.
Playing at a meet on Thursday.
Cute girl helping me take shots of her nappies to sell (she grew out of em!).
I'll be posting a little more now that things are back to normal :D
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Fun with Friends
I hosted a meet here on Friday and had a just lovely time :D A couple of shots from the day...
On Friday night we drove to Toowoomba to pick up our NEW CAR!!11!! We went with the Kia Grand Carnival (06 model) to fit all our kids and the wheelchair in it. Now we don't need to take two cars when we go grocery shopping - lol! It's awesome! (though the drive back with a stubborn-ly not sleeping babe who cried most of the way was definitely NOT awesome).
I'll snap some pics today and post em soon.
Today, we are off to the beach :D
On Friday night we drove to Toowoomba to pick up our NEW CAR!!11!! We went with the Kia Grand Carnival (06 model) to fit all our kids and the wheelchair in it. Now we don't need to take two cars when we go grocery shopping - lol! It's awesome! (though the drive back with a stubborn-ly not sleeping babe who cried most of the way was definitely NOT awesome).
I'll snap some pics today and post em soon.
Today, we are off to the beach :D
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