[imported from livejournal and backdated]
It was a really good day today. Think we're going to make a point of
trying to have more, specially seeing as I'll be doing the whole
homeschooling thing.
We went to Freo for the fruit and veg and
meat as we usually do. Tao got a banana from the stall holder we
usually go to, as he usually does, and we got the fruit and veg, then
left them there to pick up later and headed out. We caught up with
Clara from the crepe place and I bought a Nutella crepe which Tao got
half of. I think I have him hooked on Nutella now, I'm such a bad
parent. And I think I might need to buy some now. And perhaps get some
peanut butter from the misc organic food place near the meat place.
There were babies, babies everywhere and I was feeling weird. (sighs as
Josh starts imitating a chicken again :)
We went to Nick's
Kebabs for lunch, Josh got a pork kebab thingi with "Nick's special
sauce" (all of us including the counter person had a giggle about it)
which he shared with Tao, I got a boring old hot dog. We'd decided to
take Tao down to the playground opposite The Esplanade Hotel, there
happened to be something happening there, there was a carousel and a
bouncey castle and the clown heads that you drop balls into the mouths
of. Josh took Tao on the carousel, he "drove" a fire truck, then he
went on the bouncing castle. There was one another kid that was racing
up and down and having a great time, and was probably about 5 or so.
Tao was a bit unsure about the massive ridges on the floor of the
bouncing castle. We encouraged him to bounce and he did, then bounced
into one of the grooves. He was a bit unsure how to react, so we
applauded him, which cheered him up enough to try again, and he managed
to stay on the ridge that time. He had a great time.
When time
was up we took him over to the playground where there was a large bunch
of other kids playing. He had great fun on the play equipment. I got
asked how old Tao was, I said nearly 2 and got told he was "doing really
well". I have no idea what that means. He also got to have a go on
the swings though he nearly got cleaned up twice running across the
trajectory of one that was in motion.
We headed back to the
markets after that to get meat, and someone was gearing up for his nap.
Bought meat from the organic meat place, then headed in to collect the
veges. Mr Baby decided he wanted boob and sleep so he had boob and was
asleep not long after. Thing I love about being in "Dullsville", most
of the people who noticed my big almost 2yo on the boob smiled and
thought it was sweet. I've heard some stories of a few of my eastern
states friends copping flak for breastfeeding any baby over 6 months
old, guess the people in all those hip yuppie eastern state cities are
uneducated ignoramuses ;) Because Tao is getting way too big to carry
lying down in the sling, I had to take him off the boob and sit him back
up to lay on my shoulder. Fortunately he was too sleepy to complain
too much and went back to sleep.
Got to the car, Josh loaded up
the goods and put Tao into the car seat seeing as my tummy and back have
been hurting every time I've done it lately, no fuss there. We got in
the car and pulled out of the parking spot and Tao arced up for all of a
minute before looking blearily around. We got to the corner and he was
asleep again.
Got home, I put him to bed with some boob and went
to do all my chores (folding and putting away nappies, laundry, did
most of the rest of the kitchen, now only have window, sill and sink to
do). Tao didn't have a very long nap. He went out later with Josh to
walk the dog at the bushland behind Murdoch uni. I stayed home coz I
was tired. Apparently they had a great time.
Tao got in the
shower with me very shortly after they got home, after the shower he
wanted boob but he got dinner instead. After dinner he was quite
insistant on boob so he got boob and is now asleep. YAY! The last two
nights he's been having micronaps before bedtime and then not sleeping
til we go to bed.
I'm thinking I should work on the storyboard
for the comic, though from the looks of things I'll have to wait til
Josh finishes watching TV (can't concentrate when TV is on). Guess I do
some 3d or some coding in the meantime.
My writeups suck. I'm blaming today's abysmal effort on being tired, having a very short concentration span and stuff ;)