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In the shower this time.
So there I am starting an msn convo
with Leah when my ever vigilant ferocious guard puppy starts woofing,
why coz he is currently unfamiliar with the sound of Joshua returning
home on his currently brand new bike :)
Dog barking wakes boyo
up, but he sees Mummy n Daddy and smiles like this - :) which is to say
like a frog. It's cute, if I can get a photo I'll try to remember to
post it. I tell Leah that Tao's awake and I must take him to the toilet,
so I run tiny into the bathroom, whip off his nappy which is still dry
and he does his wee in the bathroom with us singing his praises.
Josh decides he needs a shower to not cramp, we all jump in there.
After
tiny has been soaped and rinsed, Josh puts him on the floor to play. He
stands supported against the edge of the roman bath with one of the
shower heads aimed at him, and then Josh says "He's done a poo." We
watch the poo flow down the drain, and inform tao that yes, he has as a
matter of fact, done a poo. He was looking atr us like this: O_O
Josh
picks him up to rinse off his bum and then "We'll hand you to mum so
she can wash of the crusty bits." Yeh, thanks :P I rinse off Tao's bum,
and all of a sudden there is an almighty FART and Josh leaps out of the
way of a line of projectile poo that shoots halfway across the shower
(what, you think I'm exaggerating? :P), ending up in a pose very similar
to those sterotypical scared of mice ladies.
Repeat rinsing of Tao's bum once I have managed to stop laughing quite so maniacally.
Josh's Revenge comes in the form of the third and final poo which slowly dribbles its way down my front.
Yuk.
At this point I palm the boy off and use an exessive amount of soap.
Tiny was all gorgeous smiliness afterward :P
Bikes. Yes, bikes.
We've
been talking about this for a while now. Be good fitness to add to
training, environmentally friendly, plus bike riding is fun. With the
rising cost of fuel, we thought we'd better actually get around to it as
opposed to talking about it. So we went shopping. Seeing as we needed
everything (bikes, bike rack, bikeseat, helmets, bike locks) I
anticipated a budget of about $800 or so if we allowed $300 each for
bikes. I woulda liked to go $400 bikes but yeh. Money. Poking around
on the net and it seemed that one of the Bike Force shops would be our
best bet. For no real reason Josh decided we should go to the one on
Albany Highway.
So off we went cruising down Albany Highway and
on the way we passed this little bike shop called Olivers Cycles or
something to that effect. I can't remember already, jeez. But there
was this nice little oldish couple running the place. We had a poke
around, liked the prices on some of the bikes, and had a chat to the
nice lady. She found out that we needed EVERYTHING, spoke to her
husband and they gave us a discount on the bikes and some other stuff,
so instead of $800 we ended up spending a bit over $600 XD Got two
decent bikes (mine has funky hand grip gear changers ^_^), two bike
locks, three helmets, a spare pump, and a bike rack which the nice old
guy helped Josh install onto Nifty.
We didn't get a bike seat
though coz none of the places we went to (we dropped in at a couple of
Bike Force shops on the way to Morley to Nasha's place to see Nate who
was up for a day) had the seat I was after, which is a centric mounted
as opposed to rear mounted (one of these).
No one was sure of the legality of the thing so I checked, and the
bike rules say passenger seats have to be behind the handlebars. I
think that construes as behind the handlebars. But looks like I'm
ordering it in which is slightly inconvenient. We decided we'd get a
trailer initially then so we could take Tiny out, but the trailers we
were looking at cost more than our bikes did, the seriously high end
trailer costs $800 (why I don't know) but the cheapest one was $300 or
so and the only one I could get at the time was $450 and after all that
other shopping I seriously doubted I had that much left in my account. I
didn't particularly want to spend that much on a trailer anyway,
specially seeing as the chances of it being used to tow Tiny were fairly
slim once I got the bike seat.
So I'll order in the bike seat
on Monday and hopefully it won't take too long to get in, and at some
point not long after that we'll get a cargo trailer for the nappy bag
and groceries and other miscellaneous crap. The ladies at AltBaby
have requested that I put up photos when I get it. I'll be taking
some. I really should put up some photos of Tiny. I'm so slack. There
is a little comic I want to make, maybe I should get on with that or
something, just working on 3d stuff right now. also supposed to be
sending my mother photos coz she wants to make a baby book for Tiny.
She'd probably do a much better job than me except for the fact that
she's not here and can't see the stuff that he does.
Erm. There
was probably some other stuff that I was going to mention but as usual
I've forgotten what it is. I should probably remember to write in this
thing more, that might help to begin with.
Need to get more ink
for the printer, and a new cable to connect it tot he computer coz I
seem to have lost mine, and do some more work on Tao's baby book.
He's
going to be 1 in a couple of months. I am so glad we haven't broken
him yet. Though I kinda worry about how he's going to turn out when he
grows up. He's such a wonderful child, could've been anything if only
he'd ended up with normal parents :)