[minor pseudonymising edits during Drupal to hugo migration for all the good that will do now] [imported from livejournal and backdated] What are you doing in there? The other day I got my first video call from JJ. I showed Tiny the phone and said “Hey Tiny, who’s that?” He replied “I donno, that’s Daddy!” I’m not sure why he starts responses like that. Then speaking to JJ’s image on the screen, “Daddy what are you doing in there?”

[minor pseudonymising edits during Drupal to hugo migration for all the good that will do now] [imported from livejournal and backdated] As of yesterday Smidge has been casually cruising along the couch. Oh dear. This work by ryivhnn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

[minor pseudonymising edits during Drupal to hugo migration for all the good that will do now] [imported from livejournal and backdated] Smidge’s lower left incisor has broken through the gums. And of course I found out when she decided to teeth on my hand. It was due anyway, it had been lurking visibly just under her gums for about a week before it finally sprouted. She’s crawling really well and has pulled up a few times, the first time on the bed rail on the bed, and a couple of times on the couch. She’s been trying to talk too, been making all sorts of cute noises. Today both JJ and I picked up something along the lines of “weaden dat book” which is Tiny pronounciation.

[minor pseudonymising edits during Drupal to hugo migration for all the good that will do now] [imported from livejournal and backdated] Seems like my luck is stabilising again. Yay! Maybe it was karma biting me in the arse for daring to work too hard on stuff that isn’t that important in the grand scheme of things, well not to me anyway. Yesterday I didn’t get quite get as much stuff done as I’d been planning on as Tiny randomly decided to have an early nap. Tha was fine, after he’d woken up we (finally!) ran Smidge’s conscientious objection form plus the two Famil Assistance Office forms in to the Medicare office in Freo. On the way home the 99 we were on terminated at the Murdoch PnR which meant we had to hang around for about ten minutes for the next one so we could go one more stop. The only reason I didn’t just walk it (would have taken about that long) was becaue of the construction work, I couldn’t see how to get out easily with the twin pram. The cranky bus driver on the terminating 99 thanked Tiny for “being good” when we got off which was a) sweet and b) slightly amusing considering Tiny had shrieked a couple of times on the bus due to being tired.

[imported from livejournal and backdated] I really need to stop reading them, I think. They are either that much common sense (to me anyway) that I don’t know why I’m bothering or they turn out to be psycho religious zealots. Well I’ve only really read two homeschooling books and they are both American (hm, that explains a lot ;). One wasn’t really that helpful though some of the stories contained within were interesting, the other started out pretty interesting as a good introduction to the “classical” method of education and kind of degenerated into anti-school borderline religious … I lost the word.

[minor pseudonymising edits during Drupal to hugo migration for all the good that will do now] That Livejournal has suddenly got a new hardcore editor. Or maybe it’s been there for a while and it’s just coz I don’t use it that much. Anyways. We were hanging out the nappies as there was sun today, we have bizarro weather (it’s meant to be autumn/winter, feels like we’re moving into spring), and noted the bees buzzing around the fully flowering tree that’s hanging over our fence next door. Josh has taught Tiny to have a healthy fear of bees which I’m trying to turn into a healthy respect. I had one explained to him that the bees hang around the flowers to get nectar that they make into honey. He remembered that, telling me “Bees make honey.”

[minor pseudonymising edits during Drupal to hugo migration for all the good that will do now] [imported from livejournal and backdated] I was going to call it a vent but you know what, it wasn’t a bad day, it was a good day with a series of stupid things interspersed. First up, I got a call from the mac shop saying my imac was in and I could pick it up whenever. I thought that was awesome. JJ didn’t want me to pick it up on my own but I had Pete with me (big bald guy, no one with a brain would mess with him, not that I’m worried about being messed with, I may be a little out of practice but I can still mess people up good). Pete wanted to poke into a shop anyway to buy some miscellaneous candy goods to take back to the UK for his friends, and see what else there was to see, so I thought we could go to Carousel (where the ac shop was) coz we only neededto take one bus there as opposed to Garden City where we were originally going and needed two buses.

[minor pseudonymising edits during Drupal to hugo migration for all the good that will do now] [imported from livejournal and backdated] Smidge is making headways with crawling and EC. She was in the same nappy since not long after lunch when I changed her into the nappy in question at Southlands, and I’ve caught every single wee and poo since then. Before that she’d only gone through two nappy changes, with one of them being a poo.

[minor pseudonymising edits during Drupal to hugo migration for all the good that will do now] [imported from livejournal and backdated] My wakeful little boy is being all awake. I’ve just read The Rainbow Fish to him three times and thought he would go to sleep but no such luck. JJ helped me out by doing the dishes (which I asked him to do) and putting away the laundry that I’d folded (which I hadn’t, so thank him very much :). Today was mostly productive, after having a bad day yesterday. Tiny being high energy and requiring constant stimulation, I’m making the commitment to take him out at least once a day. I had a mind to go to the city to get more contacts, perhaps hit up my favourite bookstore (Boffins) and perhaps check out the new Borders bookshop as well to see if either had any homeschooling books (though I may request some through the library if I can track down any titles). Also chasing some vego/vegan cookbooks. I want to amass cookbooks all of a sudden, slightly surprising coz I hate cooking.

[minor pseudonymising edits during Drupal to hugo migration for all the good that will do now] [imported from livejournal and backdated] 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.