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There’s us after just having fitted Tiny’s new bike seat onto me new bike. Handles like a dream, I don’t even feel his weight anymore, cept when he decides to lean on one of my arms when he’s checking out the road or sleepy, apparently it’s more comfortable than the headboard o_O But yeh, we’ve been doing a bit of that bike riding thing, going to do it more often as petrol prices soar, and hey bike riding is great fun. Haven’t done it really since I left Christmas Island, when me and my best friend used to go bike riding pretty much every day. Ahh the good old days etc.

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The day began with Tiny waking us up at 7:30am, standard operating procedure really. It wouldn’t have been so bad if we’d actually had decent sleep the night before, but Tiny was incredibly hungry all night, and at 3 something in the morning the stupid dog decided he wanted to go out (and once he was done outside he wanted to come back in obviously). Anyway. Tiny crawled over the top of me and got in JJ’s face, and said quite clearly, “Hello Dad!”

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In the shower this time.

So there I am starting an msn convo with Leah when my ever vigilant ferocious guard puppy starts woofing, why coz he is currently unfamiliar with the sound of JJua returning home on his currently brand new bike :)

Dog barking wakes boyo up, but he sees Mummy n Daddy and smiles like this - :) which is to say like a frog. It’s cute, if I can get a photo I’ll try to remember to post it. I tell Leah that Tiny’s awake and I must take him to the toilet, so I run tiny into the bathroom, whip off his nappy which is still dry and he does his wee in the bathroom with us singing his praises.

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Tiny ate his first full meal today :) It was a late lunch of almost vegetarian (I say almost because we had a plate of vegetables topped with gravy from the roast place and the gravy had pan juices). He missed the feed he usually has then but he made up for it not long ago with one of the longest feeds he’s had for a while o_O

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Forgot to mention. Recently (last couple of weeks) Tiny has started clambering up for cuddles and also giving big open mouth sloppy kisses. Painfully cute :)

Also my parents have asked if we want to go over east with them when they go on their annual holiday early next year. Apparently their plan is they are going to go to Singapore to visit my dad’s brother and his family there, then heading over to either the Gold Coast or Melbourne first with my youngest cousin (who is 16 like my sister) in tow, then heading to wherever of the aforementioned destinations they didn’t go to first. I would really like to go coz the theme parks would be fun, and would also like to show off the boy to the relatives in Melbourne, as well as meet some of the AltBaby crew in Melbourne if I’m able (seems like there’s a chunk of them thre, and this is where the plug was originally supposed to be mentioned; ) But yeh, I would really like to go but JJ is probably going to be working from shortly after exams finish to some undisclosed date before when uni starts again. Maybe.

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The last couple of nights have been a bit rough. I don’t know whether it’s the teething or him waking up in the middle of the night and deciding his previous long sleep was in fact just a long nap and refusing to go back to sleep even though he’s tired, but he hasn’t wanted to go back to sleep. We actually had to walk up and down the corridors with him which we’ve never had to do before, even when he was a little newborn. Well actually JJ walked the corridors with him, I took him out to the living room, fed him standing (me, not him) which I haven’t done for ages without a sling. He was heavy o_O Eventually managed to get him to slee though he’s been getting us up nice and early. And of course JJ whinges that he’s tired but will not under any circumstances go to bed early.

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I’ve had queries from daharja and redstarma as to how the gummyshark is doing so here’s a quickie while he’s asleep ;)

He’s crawling like a pro now, I have this photo which I need to put up of him finding out that a chair with wheels can be pushed around the floor, and better yet he can walk around the floor while pushing this wheelie chair. He pushed it up to me and grinned quite proudly :)

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Tiny is crawling around, not wuite like a pro but a lot more competently. He’s a bit slow on the startup but once he gets going he goes pretty quick, and you’d never believe he’s only been crawling for about 3 days. He was all over the place today, trying to get to the DVDs, the electrical cables and JJ’s comics (which are on the bottom shelf of the bookshelf due to their height). I decided there wasn’t really much need to buy him toys, he was quite happy batting and chasing and shaking one of the cat toys (a small ball with a bell in it) around :P

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Tiny is officially crawling. I tried to get a photo but it just failed to capture the moment. He’d been working quite hard on it the last couple of days, practising getting his coordination down, and he had managed to accidentally move forward, and plenty more times because it hadn’t occurred to him to move his hands while his legs were pressing forwards, he fell flat on his face.