technonaturalist

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I am starting to think that maybe I should just get my act together, get the website that I’m intending to build for the kids up and running and either throw this thing in or get an rss feed up and running or something, considering how much I remember to update.

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Slowly I am getting back into the “unschooling” groove and our life is becoming happy again after a week of horror where Tiny and I were trying to adjust to his testosterone levels, with Smidge not sleeping and teething on top of that. It’s still trying at times as he is being extremely aggressive at the moment, I really need to play “the killing game” or do more kung fu with him, he’s always so much calmer afterwards. Anyway.

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I’ve actually been posting more stuff on the baby board and forgetting about here, or intending to copy/paste here and not doing it. Maybe if I remember I’ll carry some stuff over. I should also start tagging entries, I still haven’t been able to find this entry I wanted to find for someone.

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I have two nearly toilet trained children.

After a week or so of occasional accidents on the carpet or starting to go before stopping himself and then going to the toilet, Tiny is suddenly saying that he needs to go before he goes. There isn’t the biggest time buffer in the world but it’s plenty of time to get from wherever we are in the house to the toilet. I have no idea how we will fare out and about if he ever needs to go when we’re out but I have flat nappies (for wiping up messes), spare underwear and shorts in the backpack for him these days.

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Tiny can do them now. Proper jigsaw puzzles, not the usual kiddie kind of match the cutout piece to the shape on the board. So they’re only 6 piece, but on the Bob the Builder website they not only click and lock into place when you put them with other right pieces, you can also rotate them and you don’t always start with them the right way up.

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Definitely on the up, and not as likely to slide, although that still happens every so often.

The other day (when? Who knows, I don’t usually make distinctions between days, just aware of the sun moving :P) something Tiny was doing was shitting me, JJ had denied him something and he was wailing and carrying on and complaining. I was getting irritated by his whinging as he’d been on and off all day, on and off the boob all day and I was feeling slightly short tempered.

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Copy-pasted from AB coz I’m lazy.

Very slightly creeped out by Tiny

An artist on Art is Murder submitted this image a day or so ago (I’ve lost track). Tiny spotted it and proclaimed it a “big tarp wemus!” I got the big and sharp and asked him to repeat the last word a few times. He kept repeating the sentence. So I said, “A big sharp remus?”

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Right now, Tiny is playing with the playdoh set that was in his Wiggles showbag, and Smidge is falling asleep on the boob.

Make that, Smidge is in bed and Tiny is on the boob listening to “teepy baby moooozik”.

I do seem to go in cycles don’t I.

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Both of them.

Smidge, not so bad aside from a bad habit of leaking all over the place.

Tiny, well. As well as the runs, the cyst on his eye is infected and he’s getting a double whack for it, both an eye cream and oral antibiotics. He has a rash on his chest and is listless and lethargic.

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You can learn a lot from doing not much. As most people know, I do 3d. I seem to know bits of geometry, crap I never would have picked up at school, mainly coz it was in the higher level maths class and I suck at maths.

Currently I’m learning a little bit about Russian history (there’s a doco on sometime in the next fortnight that might be helpful) and researching titanium alloys. Why? Roleplaying :P