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Christmas Eve Eve

Packed while waiting for aurickandrien to arrive early in the morning. No, we don’t leave anything to the last minute, really. We’re all like highly organised and stuff :P Went to the Freo markets to get veges for aurickandrien and veges to take to Jurien. Bought Tiny a pair of Stompers (soft soled little boots with “Stompers” written on the back of them, his first shoes :) aurickandrien had to run off after a while as he had an appointment in Perth, and we continued shopping around. Bought a sign for JJ’s grandmother whom we were staying with, got fruit n veges, went home. Stuffed stuff into car, said goodbye and cuddled with the kittikitties, loaded dog and baby into car, headed off.

Went up Roe Highway through Midland just for a change (usually we take the freewya north through Joondalup and Wanneroo and end up on some road called Orange Springs Road), the ride through the Swan Valley was a much nicer drive. Tiny fell asleep which was great. Pulled into a service station and the idiot dog started whining and carrying on and wanting to get out of the car, and because he’s thick he completely did not comprehend or probably even hear us telling him to be quiet, and of course this eventually woke Tiny up. Tiny was not happy to be woken up in the middle of his nap. I pulled him out of his carseat onto my lap, after paying for fuel and buying food, JJ drove us across the tarmac to the carpark (with Tiny still on my lap, so safe, must not do that when he’s old enough to question the use of seatbelts) and took the whinging dog for a walk while I fed Tiny. Tiny didn’t want to go back into his carseat, but we eventually got him back in there. Drove off eating, Tiny eventually fell back asleep.

Had to make a couple more pit stops along the way to feed Tiny, though he did eventually get himself back off to sleep. There was also traffic (specially trucks) to contend with, so it took about four hours to get to where we were going, and we were 15mins late (we told JJ’s nanna 7) on a bloody 2-2.5 hour drive. Ahh well. We got there. Unloaded stuff, rearranged bedroom, had dinner, had shower, went to bed early.

Christmas Eve

JJ’s parents rock up. Much fuss made of Tiny. We head over to JJ’s aunty’s place to check it out seeing as it’s finally complete, and also to deliver scraps for the chickens. House looks pretty good, there is a pool yet to go in. JJ’s little cousins (aged 6 and 4) fall madly in love with Tiny and are in a constant state of wanting to play with him. They play nicely together, except for one mishap where the 6yo accidentally pushed Tiny over and made him cry for about ten seconds (problem solved with some cuddling), after that we had to leave because Tiny was ready for a nap and couldn’t get to sleep with people wanting to play with him all the time.

JJ managed to organise some backyard cricket, backyard meaning they utilised this dodgy as net at the school down the road from Nanna’s house. They left while Tiny was still asleep, but JJ asked me to bring him down when he woke up. I said okay and I think spent a lot of time on my laptop building Morf (the grey thing, not the green and black one with funky flame wings). Tiny eventually woke up (as he does), got ready to head down to the school and after packing up stuff, realised I wasn’t sure if I remembered the way. MIL said she’d walk with me, but wouldn’t stay long as people had to go places and people were coming over. Kitted out Tiny in his sunnies and rainbow hat and headed off to the school.

His hat blew off on enroute but MIL went back and retrieved it. Guys were playing cricket, one of JJ’s other cousins was bored and wanted to go home. MIL sat with us for a while and watched, then took that cousin home with her. I sat and kept an eye on Tiny and made sure the cricket ball didn’t head in Tiny’s direction. Got a couple photos.

Relatives keep dropping in at various points during the day, various plans made and things like that. We decide to give JJ’s parents their Christmas present early coz it looks better at night, so we put it on display for them and turn all the lights off and let ’em check it out. They like it lots.

Christmas Day

Woke up early, had bacon and eggs for breakfast. Gave JJ’s parents and brother their presents, decided to give Tiny his present from my parents before all the kids rocked up for the grand present opening.

Everyone rocked up later and it was chaos and mayhem and anarchy as the kids looked for their presents. I sat back with Tiny, and the kids kept finding presents and bringing it to him faster than he could process it and way before he had finished playing with the wrapping from the first one, so in the end I sat him on my lap showing him things and enlisted the help of 4yo cousin to open his presents. She was only too willing to help :P He really cleaned up. I got a bottle of wine, clothes (yay! new clothes! finally!), Digital Fortress by Dan Brown (good book) and some other stuff. JJ got clothes and stuff. I lost track of a lot of things but probably should have had the camera handy.

Due to my issues I wasn’t sure if I wanted to go to church or not, but it was decided for us when about 5mins before we were supposed to get ready to go, Tiny did the hugest poo. It happens when he doesn’t poo for 4 days. By the time we finished cleaning him up JJ figured there was no point going even though I repeatedly told him he could go if he wanted. Turned out that the mass went overtime coz the priest wouldn’t stop talking, everyone came back late and exhausted. Went to another relative’s for lunch, another game of bakcyard cricket got going. Went home late afternoon so Tiny could sleep, went back again for dinner. Left before it got too late coz the girls couldn’t comprehend “he doesn’t want to play right now, he’s tired” which is understandable coz they’re young, but it’s amazing how many adults do not get it o_O Tried unsuccessfully to organise room so we could walk around.

Boxing Day

JJ was up in time to watch cricket (yay). Went to same relative’s for lunch to eat leftovers. Dropped in to see more relatives. Lazed around much, can’t remember much either, mainly coz I’m tired. BIL left to return to Perth. We packed and gathered stuff together to return to Perth. Felt sad over tsunami memorials, remembered crying almost constantly when pregnant and after having Tiny, coz it seemed unfair that I had gained so much while others had lost so much. And while it’s great that the planet’s fighting back, I think it’s hitting the wrong areas. Sigh.

Today

Woke up early, had breakfast, stuffed stuff into car, JJ went to get fuel while I fed Tiny, loaded up dog and baby, said goodbye, left. Tiny fussed a lot but eventually fell asleep. He slept most of the way back, got up for a quick feed on the side of the road, kept going. He fussed most of the way back. Finally got home, unloaded stuff, fed Tiny, caught up with aurickandrien. Tiny stayed up and played for a bit, then we discovered when JJ decided to change him out of his trip nappy (a Bubba J pocket nappy) that he had done a decent size poo. I had a shower with him.

JJ went to play cricket with a uni friend, I stayed back and continued hanging out with aurickandrien, Tiny did another poo that leaked and managed to miss JJ’s laptop power cable which he was standing over, but get aurickandrien’s bag that he was standing next to. Took him to t he bathroom, cleaned him off, ran a bath for him. This poo wasn’t so big, so I was actually able to flush the solids off in the toilet for a change. Put the nappies in the washing machine shortly after cleaning the mess outside up.

JJ and friend came back from their game, JJ ran aurickandrien home, I lanolised Tiny’s nappy covers (and want to order another one XD), put the laundry on and made a vague resolution to be better at stuff. I’ll be more specific later.

Also later need to get my act together and organise Tiny’s birthdy celebration in THREE DAYS. Keep that free, will give details later ;)

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