With Confidence
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Smidge has been crawling a lot less, and walking a lot more. She still totters and toddles very cutely but the bipedal bit is happening with a lot more confidence. We walk around the shops a lot more. Smidge walks quite a way for a small girl. We did the same thing with Tiny which I think is why he seems to have more stamina than a lot of preschoolers I observe , although said preschoolers seem to have mothers with more to do than me so they get strapped in prams while the mums rush around getting errands done.
Tiny little bit...
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Tiny is at that age where he’s getting curious about bodies and observing fundamental differences about boys and girls, adults and children. Such as;
“Mummy has boobies, I don’t have boobies, Daddy doesn’t have boobies, Smidge doesn’t have boobies, Mummy has BIG boobies!”
and
“I have a little doodle. Daddy has a big doodle.”
Broken Record!
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Smidge broke her record of 6 steps today by taking 8. 2 of the steps were after she turned a little. She was so pleased with herself she giggled, bounced on the spot which caused her to land on her bum but no matter, she clapped her tin hands together and continued giggling.
3 steps
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Smidge took three steps today! So cutely!
Then flopped over at crawled to daddy whom I had dragged out of bed to come see :)
That top tooth is coming through as well.
And Tiny’s reading and toilet training are progressing slowly (the former a bit faster than the latter and I’d prefer it the other way round :P) but apparently consistantly.
Thank you Wiz making Tiny's day XD
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We went to the footy today. Hung out with mother in law and kids while JJ and his dad went off to the corporate function they had tickets too. We had lunch, walked around the markets, MIL bought Tiny a blue blowup hand, we stopped in a photo studio and got the kids photos taken dressed up, then went to the game.
Photo post
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JJ pushing Tiny on a swing. He loves swings. Curly toddler toes are cute XD
The two of them in the twin pram.
Here comes a Smidge, walking walking...
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Very small small girl stood up yesterday. She’s been able to stand by herself for longer periods of time lately, but only after pulling up on something else. Yesterday she spent 5 minutes standing all by herself while gnawing on a banana with her two chompers.
JJ reckons she’ll be walking soon.
Price of Children and World Breastfeeding Week
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World Breastfeeding Week started yesterday and ends on the 7th. I am still breastfeeding Tiny (2.5) as well as Smidge (9 months).
Also gakked the following from Alternative Baby, from azure who got it off another blog. Thought it was cool.
This is just too good not to pass on; something absolutely positive for a change.I have repeatedly seen the breakdown of the cost of raising a child, but this is the first time I have seen the rewards listed this way. It’s nice.
Day 1
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So far so good.
Heather dropped off Jasper at about 9ish and hung around for half an hour to chat and make sure he settled, which he did pretty quickly. Tiny and Jasper played together mostly nicely, bar a few tantrums here and there coz Tiny wouldn’t do exactly what Jasper wanted or say things exactly as Jasper wanted them said and Jasper happened to have something Tiny decided that he wanted (mainly because he saw Jasper had it).
Tomorrow
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First day of having another child on boar tomorrow. Had Jasper and Will come round today, I anticpated a worst case scenario of lots of tantrums and fighting over toys and a best case scenario of everythibg meshing nicely. Guess which happened.
The rest of the day sorted itself out with the kids playing happily.