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Well, what can I say it's been a while.

My night off went well. I was a good mummy, I had stored enough milk for 3 feeds so I thawed the milk and split it into 2 feed each with a top up and put them in the fridge. Fed Tim at the venue and Dad drove him home.

Saw my sister graduate in a class all of her own. Witnessed someone who knew better do something gross (pics later). got home started to pump about 11pm and Tim wakes up... check the fridge... and all the milk is still there, he didn't need it at all! Fed it too him anyway and stored what I pumped which will probably get used when we do the house hunting thing.

Then the saturday we had dinner at mums and the man of the house has a kidney stone attack. Off to the hospital and we didn't even get to finish dinner (boo). Luckily it passed quickly, and without the need for morphine!

Unfortunately we didn't get to spend much time with Auntie S.

But she will be happy that I share these photos with the world.....

First the man himself
Now I'm first to admit that the photo
quality isn't great but I had a whopping
big lens on and the light was bad so
there you have it...
he's looking a little grey and crusty isn't he???





Yep that's who you think it is (if you're an Aussie that is!) Our esteemed former Prime Minister Paul J. Keating picking his teeth in public... not just any old kind of public... the kind of public where he is in view of a whole crowd of people.... In the words of Tom "Put your manners back in"

Now on the Mum and Bub front Tim is about to turn a 1/2 and in true P style we're taking him to get his 6 month innoculations. He'll be happy to know that at least Mummy will be rolling her sleve up for a tetanus update as she forgot to get it last year... being pregnant and all seemed a great excuse to not get it in 2005! Dad may take some convincing.

Now it may not last but we have had a good day already (it's only 11am so things could change... however) Tim has just had 60 minutes of sleep and is still going (no doubt just you reading that phrase has changed things!) The great thing is this time I wrapped him, tucked him in, gave him a dummy, for the ocean sounds going and left the room... one quick entrance to tame a runaway dummy - took it's chances in a bout of the hiccups - and back out again and he fell asleep on his own. Sounds silly but I feel so proud of him, and myself. Maybe I'm a good Mum after all.


Edited to add: I forgot all about the food issue. Timis going great guns with his veggies... on the menu now are the following F&V... Apple, banana, broccoli, pear, potato, pumpkin, sweet potato, zucchini, plus rice cereal, and rice + millet cereal. In the near future he'll be trying avocado, carrot, meat and bread. Such a growing boy!

Baa Baa Black Sheep

have you any wool? No but I have milk!

Milk you say what's so exciting about that... well with Auntie S coming down to get her piece of paper, I get a night off duties... but a night off requires preparation... and I have prepared. Now I'm allowed to go to the graduation without any worries because I have 3 bags of milk for the boy wonder. Yay!
It will be really nice to see my sister again, and having her down for a few days will be lovely to have Tim see her, and play for a while. I'm seriously looking forward to the family being together again.

On the home front I'm going to do some baking this afternoon... I'm attempting a Tart tatin... we'll see how we go.

And I've started getting organic veggies delivered to the house!... It's like Christmas (except Auntie's S & H will be most delighted to know it involves less unwrapping). I get a box delivered to the house and it has a whole heap of surprises in it.

This week we gor Fuji apples (seriously the best tasting apple I've had EVER), Valencia Oranges, a watermelon, pears, mushrooms, bok choy, potatoes, onions, carrots, pumpkin, and sweetpotato.

I should explain that the box of the week is a selection of fruit and veg that is organic, and therefore seasonal, so whatever is growing now is what you get! Should make for some creative cooking (actually I made a really yummy veggie soup/stew yesterday). And price wise you only pay about $2 extra than if you hunted out organic veggies locally... and with boy wonder on my hands my time is worth more at home.

My next delivery is when Auntie S is here... maybe I could make something yummy for the big family dinner.
Can't wait to see you.

May Day! May Day! May Day!

Sorry about that, couldn't help myself!

Just popping in to report on our going ons this past week.

On Thursday we K-Marted and got a lovely high-lo high chair for Tim. What's a high-lo high chair... well if you haven't been in a highchair since the seventies things sure have changed. This Highchair is the bees knees. I came with 3 (count 'em) tray inserts that can go in the dishwasher. They pop on top of the built in tray. There's a drinks holder, toys that can't drop on the floor, a basket for stuff. The Chair goes in up to 7 height positions (ie higher or lower) so you don't ruin your back and the back rest reclines in up to 3 positions... the only thing that this chair is missing is a massage function.

Speaking of the chair the boy has been having rice cereal for about a week now, and still appears to be enjoying it's blandy goodness. So we tried him on pumpkin and he appears to like it! Yay.

Speaking of the chair (part 2) When the boy is in the chair and is a little grizzly you might correctly assume that he's a bit bored... but when he starts going really red in the face it's time to reconsider and go change him because when they're sitting in the chair, and there is some pressure being applied then there is 3 distinct directions for stuff to go... and believe me you don't want that stuff to go anywhere!