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Today was a good day, even if the public transport was a bit of a malarky.

Woke up in the morning, got myself and Tiny breakfast (weetbix with full cream milk, chopped strawberries and half a banana each) and switched the tv to ABC kids. Tiny had a minor tantrum when he found out JJ had gone to walk the dog without him, but quickly got over it when he noted it wasn’t getting much reaction from me and watched TV, not touching his breakfast.

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After skitzing out a little over the past week, I’m hoping for more days like this. It was good. Not too much computer, more time with kids. Housework gone done a bit too, except vacuuming. Tiny learned how to use a knife.

I didn’t get much work done but hopefully might get a little bit done tonight. Kids went to bed at a reasonable time, I spent a bit of time with Josh, Sprat and I had a pillow fight and generally good times.

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Tiny has discovered The Wiggles website. It was my fault, I decided to see if they were going to have any events in Perth anytime soon and he spotted me.

So now he’s on “his” (ie JJ’s old) laptop playing the various games they have littered about their site. So far he’s played an instrument game which is a simple mouse over game, great for teaching tots hand eye coordination with a mouse. Next I put on the numbers game for him (he mouses over a number, it gets big, he clicks on it and one of the Wiggles reads out the number. Think he was trying to learn the numbers so he could play Wake Up Jeff which requires knowing what the numbers 1, 2 and 3 are.

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It’s raining. In summer. Wonders will never cease. People who are still stubbornly insisting that they can live wasteful lifestyles because it would happen anyway, well no help for them coz they’re delusional and are psychologically incapable of seeing any reality other than the one they desperately cling to.

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I upgraded the kid’s account for the scrapbook function. Hurray. Theoretically it should encourage me to post more photos but that requires me putting in the effort to process the photos :P

Anyway.

Yay the kids are down at a reasonable time!

Tiny’s been trying to drop his nap for the past few ages with varying degrees of success. Today he had a nice short nap and then after a few trials and tribulations (ie Smidge wanted a feed and she gets priority, then she went and stayed on for about an hour) I got him to sleep quite quickly.

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As I said in the other journal, Christmas Island was great. I will post up pictures once I can be bothered either convincing my combo drive that it’s fine and can read the CD or stuffing it into JJ’s computer and pulling from there.

Pleasantly tired at the moment, I feel like I’m contributing something to the household for a change. Been a while what with being dangerously pregnant and then recovering from being pregnant. JJ and I are slowly starting to fall into a rhythm of who does what chores and overlapping where necessary.

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Smidge’s Welcome Party

Unfortunately I didn’t get any photos as I forgot my sling and the floor rug and thus had my hands full of Smidge pretty much the entire time. Bit unfortunatel but you get that.

Was nice and intimate and a lot of fun, and reminded me a) how much I like small group situations and b) how much I hadn’t caught up with the people that rocked up, didn’t have nearly as much time as I wanted to spend with everyone. But I guess this happens around silly season especially when everyone is busier than what they would normally be.

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Slowly working on this with Smidge, seeing as it’s kind of blatantly obvious when she needs to do a poo. She was fussing earlier so I stuck her om the potty and she did a wee (some of it hit me on the leg coz I hadn’t positioned her quite right but we’re learning :P

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I think I did all right today, only yelled at the kids three times, twice at Tiny and once at Smidge. One of the yelling at Tiny was an extended rant about I can’t remember what and he didn’t have a clue what I was talking about either. By naptime I was quite ready for them to have a nap but of course they were alternating crying so would wake the other one up. One stage I had Smidge on top of me while Tiny was having some boob, she started squirming around a lot as she had a wet nappy and she doesn’t like having a dirty nappy on (unlike Tiny whom as a newborn we had to check frequently as he didn’t care about the state of his nappy and if we hadn’t checked we might have left him to rash infestation as it never bothered him). I tried disengaging Tiny to go and change her nappy before she started bawling and woke him up. Problem was Tiny refused to be disengaged and had a tantrum because I’d detached him.

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The end of the year is a really sucky time to do anything.

We’re living in a predominantly Christian society which means we started getting introduced to the Christmas stuff early (I think some places started in October) and now we’re drowning in it. Most of Perth is out Christmas shopping which means we’re doing ours during the week when it’s nice and quiet coz everyone else is at work. We don’t even really do Christmas, not in the sense everyone else is used to anyway which I think is either pissing them off or they think it’s weird and just steamroller over us in an attempt to keep everything normal for them. I deal with it.