Down and dinosaurs

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Ahh my little guy is growing up. I had him on my lap talking to firvulag and aurickandrien (gemfyre and terrycat were about too but non-active, and a uni friend of JJ’s) on IRC, and Tiny was having a great time playing with this notebook I’d written stuff in from the Lightwave manual (I got sick of having to dig out that bloody big pdf every time I forgot something). As he does, Tiny knocked the book onto the floor, then stared at it as if surprised it had fallen (well maybe he’s still learning about this gravity thing ;)

Updates on the Bean

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Cot

Last night Tiny was asleep between us after I’d fed him. e flailed around a bit trying to sprawl, and in a barely awake state, crawled over the top of me heading for his cot. I helped him along and covered him up with his blanket. He fidgeted a bit more, got himself comfortable with his head on his pillow and promptly fell asleep. I watched him go to sleep in his cot (which is minus a side and up against the side of our bed, seeing as he’s getting bigger), JJ cuddled up behind me and commented that Tiny was getting to be a big boy. I said yeah, and remembered our little newborn nestled in between us, sleeping. I was quite proud of him for going into the cot by himself (or at least intending to), and thinking how much I was going to miss him when he moved out into his own bed (as nice as having the bed back to ourselves will be too ;)

Ho hum

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Both the boys are currently asleep, which makes it kinda hard to walk the dog. I managed to catch up on washing today, though right now I should be folding nappies, so of course I’m 3ding. I also ordered some more fluffy mail, another hemp nappy (coz they are great) and one of the new pocket nappies from BubbaJ to try and five boosters coz we keep running out for some obscure reason. I thought we had one booster per nappy, apparently I was wrong. Well now we should have more boosters than nappies which means I should be able to double up or triple up (if it doesn’t get too bulky) boosters in Tiny’s night nappy, coz when he conks out early (5-6ish) he is usually awake again at 11ish coz his nappy is incapable of being any wetter and then of course after getting his nappy changed he’s all awake and ready for a play. Fortunately he does go to sleep when we do.

Nup

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JJ and Tiny were in the shower earlier when I heard JJ laughing loudly, and yelling for me. I went in there to see what was so funny (plus I was going to jump in there soon anyway). Apparently JJ had been wanting to wash his hair, so he asked Tiny if it was all right if he put him down. Tiny had looked JJ in the eye, shaken his head and said “Nup!”

Two more things

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Today Tiny climbed up onto the dog couch. We didn’t see it. I was doing something on the computer, JJ was studying. I heard JJ exclaim “How did you get up there?” turned around and saw Tiny perched up on the dog couch, cute as anything and looking very pleased with himself.

Cute boy

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Everyone thinks my baby is cute. I agree with them but I’m biased ;) Had that many people tell me how he is the cutest little baby they’ve seen for a while, how he’s so happy, has such a cute smile, and is so observant and seems so intelligent, gives reaffirmationt hat I don’t need but still makes me happy to hear ;)

I love my adorable baby!

Nice day

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Had a nice day today. Got to meet Carlia from AB and her cute little almost 2yo, as well as a bunch of other “alternative” types. Met up with Carlia and some other people at the markets, then had to double back to the car park so we could put Tiny’s car seat in Carlia’s car coz she was going to give me a ride back. We hung out with JJ for a bit, went and did our fruit and vege shopping (mango season! and Tiny loves mangoes! XD) and Tiny got a strawberry which he ate a couple of bites of and then smooshed most of the rest all over me, as per standard operating procedure.

Education whinge

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After observing Tiny yesterday and how it’s becoming more and more blatantly obvious how he’s learning things by experimentation, I wonder why the control freak government insists that the ONLY way kids will ever learn anything is if someone is forcing them to sit down and read things. I think it goes to show how blatantly stupid and ignorant people are, and I’m sure I could come up with all sorts of conspiracy theories about how they’re homogenising everyone into compliant citizens by stamping out individuality, and leaving it so the only way people can think they are unique and special is just by being selfish (which is not the same as being individual) because they have no other sense of self.

He's walking!

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Well, not quite, but he’s very close.

He’s only been crawling for a month O_O

We were playing the game where I say “Can the baby…stand by himself?” and let go of him, and catch him before he loses his balance. He thinks it’s a great game, and lately has been able to balance for a little while before falling over. This time however, he not only stood, he interrupted my starting to tell him what a clever balancing baby he was by running straight at me, giggling maniacally all the way. Took him all of three steps to reach me, I yelled “HE’S WALKING!” at JJ (who insists that there was definite squealing involved, i deny this), JJ came running over to try to convince Tiny to walk to him but Tiny had decided we were obviously playing chasey and crawled away as fast as he could, giggling all the way :)

Stuff that's been

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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.