Good day
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Had playgroup today. It’ws one of those nic days, warm in the sun but not hot, cool in the shade but not freezing. It was particularly nice today as Tiny had great fun playing with his friends, there are four of them including Tiny around the same age (3-5) and for almost the entire time they were playing together, who knows what but pirates and dinosaurs and sticks were involved. The boys went up with one of the mums at some stage and played around the memorial pond and the rest of us were watching from the usual spot and thinking how adorable they were and it all was. I’m wondering if the other mums were thinking the same thing I was, like this was the way it should be with the kids having fun playing together as they were.
"Sky fi"
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Recently JJ had the SciFi channel on Foxtel. I can’t remember now what it was we were watching on the SciFi channel, but Tiny looked at it, then looked at us and said quite confidently “Dat’s sky fi.”
Sky fi.
Most of the words he’s looked at to date have a hard “c” sound and neither of us have ever referred to it with that particular pronounciation. I have occasionally called it “sci fee” as it’s not “science fike-shun”.
The Toddler Bed
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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.
P r e o
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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.
Tiny's observations
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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.
Advancements
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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.
Puzzles
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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.
Moving and flowing
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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.
Remus is a moon
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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?”
Getting it together?
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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.