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Had a nice day today. Got to meet Carlia from AB
and her cute little almost 2yo Bridie, 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 Tao's
car seat in Carlia's car coz she was going to give me a ride back. We
hung out with Josh for a bit, went and did our fruit and vege shopping
(mango season! and Tao loves mangoes! XD) and Tao 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.
We'd lost the others
while trawling around the markets and we had a stroll around looking at
stuff and looking for them, Josh went off and got meat and fish then
headed home to work on his assignments. Bridie spent a whole lot of
time not wanting to be in her sling. We caught up with another couple
that had a baby named Jarrah who is a week younger than Tiny. We kept
looking and failed at finding the other people, then discovered they'd
gone to Clancy's Fish Pub (which apparently was where we were going to
go for lunch). So we headed over there as well, my sense of direction
completely failed me and we kinda took the scenic route there (this is
what happens when I'm missing landmarks in the middle), but we got there
eventually.
The sketti at Clancy's is nice (yeh went to a FISH
pub and I ordered spaghetti). Tao had fallen asleep on the walk and was
asleep for a while, his waking up coincided with me dropping some
spaghetti on his head (always happens when I'm eating with him in the
sling, and I was doing so well too). Initially he was shy coz he'd just
woken up, but was quite happy to get down and play once he'd gotten
used to the amount of people. I changed his nappy (he was wetter than I
thought, yay for Fuzzibunzes), and he checked out what the other kids
were doing, and got confused by Bridie constantly switching toys with
him. Carlia commented that he was going to have to get used to it as
girls were confusing :)
I told her about Josh being open minded,
and when Tao was screaming blue murder coz he didn't want to lie down
while having his nappy changed, Josh was speaking gently to him and then
I heard him say "I'm gonna tell your girlfriend or boyfriend about
this!" Apparently it's hard for some men to accept the fact that their
sons might be that way inclined. Silly people.
Party dispersed
as kids started getting tired and Carlia gave us a ride home in her 4wd.
Tao and Bridie spent a whole lot of time looking curiously at each
other. I hadn't put Tao's pants back on and thought he might be cold so
covered him with his sling. Bridie stole the sling and used it as a
blanket for herself, which was amusing. Part way home Tao started
fussiong and crying which escalated to screaming by the time we got
home. Carlia managed to eject the baby seat from her car (she called it
the steroided carseat coz it was massive compared to Bridie's), we
waved her off and I brought the much calmer Tao inside for a feed.
Surprisingly
he wasn't actually that interested in feeding, he was all smiles again
playing with Josh, so I think he might have just missed Josh, coz we wer
separate for quite a while plus in a strange environment surrounded by
strange people. Probably too much for a poor little baby to handle in
one day. He was happy to be back home with his daddy, we all played and
cuddled for a little while, then Josh changed Tao's nappy and I fed
him. He fed for about an hour which seriously drained me. He's been
doing that a bit lately, these insanely long, tiring feeds that usually
have me falling at least partially asleep with him. He fell asleep
after that and crashed out for a while.
I fed him back to sleep not long ago but at least it only took about 15-20mins.
So
yeh. I suck at writing up, but it was a really nice day, and it was
nice to finally meet Carlia and Bridie and find some other "alternative"
types (I don't think we're alternative, I think we're normal and
everyone else is weird ;)
And Tiny's just woken up again,
probably needs to go to the bathroom. The elimination communication is
going well (he even used his sign today, cept I'm stupid and took a
while to click as he hasn't used it before). And now he's done his wee
and I need to go give him a bath, and possibly get him back to sleep.