Friday, June 30, 2006

They've found us...

and now we have to move.

Our friends at Readers Digest Sweepstakes have caught up with us after a year of searching. 2 letters in 2 days Damnit. It's a good thing that we're planning on moving anyway!

So we've got 2 houses to look at tomorrow. Hopefully the cheaper one will suit but honestly I think I like the idea of renovating a bit... must be all the home reno shows that are on at the moment... and to be brutally honest if someone choose us to be the recipient of a backyard blitz I'd be wrapped.

Seriously dealing with Real Estate agents totally blows and sucks at the same time. All the double talk and quaint cliches are tiring. Cosy home directly translates to cramped quarters and if I see anymore tree top views that also include the local service station from a few centimetres left of where they stood to take the photo I could scream!

Hopefully I can report that we've bought a new place soon.

Happy end of financial year day...

And finally a big thankyou to Northwoods baby for the heads up on site meter. It's way too interesting, and time wasting to be legal. (I'm such a geek!) but it is thanks to them that I can say a big HELLO to Sydney; Australia, Little Rock, Arkansas USA and Bangor, Wisconsin USA (aka Northwoods :wave: to you, Perp and Dude. And somehow figure out to hack into their systems using their IP addys... woo hoo Kidding people... I'm not even close to mastering those skills yet... I'm considering on working on during naptimes... NOT

Well the boy is sleeping and while I should be doing something useful I might harken back to the old days for a few minutes and read something.... or cook up some soup with the leftover veggies because the veggie man is coming today!.... Ooh apples are left... Apple Pie anyone?

Saturday, June 17, 2006

I'm a big boy I am!

Tim has really grown up in the last 2 weeks or so.

Around the 6th he was a real cranky boy, and during my occasional sweep of his mouth I found the beginnings of his first tooth! My mum can't remember (ie she didn't write down) when I got my first tooth... but Aunty S got hers in her 8th month (ie when she was 7.5 months) and Aunty H had her 1st birthday before she got a chopper!

Unfortunately he's had to have a few "No!"s which have been for biting... partly my fault because he gets distracted and I think he's distracted rather than finished... when he's tired of me re-offering the breast he'll bite me (so I have to say something). Saying No in a firm voice is certainly effective... he pulls off gets a sour lemon look on his face and cries. I explain why he shouldn't bite and give him a little cuddle, and then we move on. I think he's doing it less often now... only did it once yesterday. I don't like telling him off like this but I have to if it means that he's not going to hurt me too much.... I also have pulled out the No when he gets too close to the bricks around the fireplace... it's too hard to cover and make soft so it's just going to have to be a verbal boundary.

He also had his first visit to the aquarium, has his first visit to G.Grandma B's place and is now well accustomed to his car seat and is making great gains with food.

Now featuring on our menus are beef, chicken (he loves chicken and mushroom risotto - the chicken and mushroom get wizzed up then mixed back in with the rice) yoghurt in the mornings and chunky cooked apple. And rusks, both the commercial which he pretty much sucks on, and home made (think toast soldiers - bread that's been dried out in the oven so they're really very dry and crispy).

But this morning he had his first vegemite on toast. Granted that he pretty much sucked the vegemite off the toast leaving a soggy bready mess on his tray but he seemed to like it (a very light smear!) so I think that will probably be on the menu fairly regularly.

ETA: forgetful mummy that I am I did forget to mention the biggest big boy moment has been this week Tim has been sleeping in his own room. He's taken to it like a champion and is now (sort of) sleeeping through. We wake him at 9:30 for medicine and a feed. He wakes us for a dummy reinsertion at 2:30 and we give him medicine at 5:30 (and a feed if he wakes) then back to bed until about 7:30 / 8 when we have breakfast.

Friday, June 02, 2006

Circle the wagons, the In'juns are a coming!

Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh...

You know the noise that the indians in the old fashioned Cowboy 'n' Indian movies used to make by shouting and then regulating the noise with their hand going back and forth over their mouths.

Can you hear it???

Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh...

I can... have been hearing it for the last day or so.
Nope not watching an old movie... I'm listening to Tim.
Yep it was rather cute to start with, very little boy lying on his back on the floor fist in hand popping back and forth from chest to mouth

Oh-Oh-Oh-Oh...

Oh you may be laughing now... but wait, just wait until you've heard it over and over, layer upon layer. Honestly it does start driving you nuts.