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Sunday 11 July 2010

It's been a month? Oops.

Sooo ... quick run down ... the little ginger has done lots of changing and as a result, he's done lots of being awesome, and lots of being absolutely revolting. You've seen no blogging basically because when he's being awesome, we're hanging out and I'm in a semi-collapsed heap breathing a sigh of relief, and when he's being revolting ... well. The revolting-ness seems to be related to teething (we don't like teeth at all in this house. Not even a little bit. He took months to cut through his top molars, and even now they're still working their way out, and now his bottom molars have started. Vile. V-I-L-E. Bad teeth), and new routines related to growing up. The bit that does me in to the core, is trying to work out what the bellowing is all about. We sort of end up working on a cold/warm/hot basis for a couple of weeks till be get there. I know how hot/warm/cold I am based on how loud the bellowing is. If I need ear muffs, I apparently need to pay more attention. If I can flick through a Vogue, but not actually concentrate to read anything, then I'm heading to warm, and if the little ginger appears cheerful, cruises through the morning and succumbs to a nap with ease, nailed it!

Anyway ... the month in pictures.

Perhaps an indication that the child likes Pamol a little bit tooooo much.

Marmitey cruskity goodness.


After a tough morning at the zoo, also apparently under a blue moon.


This one you can't really see too well, but the gist of it is that the kid discovered that post-its stick reeeally well to the border collie, and spent quite some time sticking them on her through the child-gate. I now need to thieve more post-its from the office.


Coolest of duvet covers for when we transition to his big boy room, in about 15 years.

Cuinn loves helping make a 'hot cuppa' (standing on a chair at the bench) and in particular loooooves the coffee machine, so we found this and he's lived happily every after making 'cuppa' after 'cuppa' in the lounge. It even came with a little wooden milk carton and sugar bowl and teaspoon.



Training. And, interestingly (although I don't have photos as yet) after a good 9 years of marriage, I still can't get the husband to put his shoes away, however when I turned my attention to training the kid to put the husband's shoes away by convincing him that putting Dadda's shoes away is the. coolest. thing. ever. I've gotten much further. Go figure.


And did I mention we're doing an embryo transfer next month? More on that later, but in the meantime, I've ordered a nice, docile, non-ginger girl. What d'you think my chances are?

4 comments:

Mel Archer said...

Love the coffee machine, i was meaning to ask where you got it! I hear you on the transition to big boys bed, we aren't anywhere close to heading that way (well at least not until we get at least 2 nights in a row of sleeping through without waking once, otherwise we'll have a constant nighttime visitor....)

KA said...

we still arent in a big boy bed either and he's almost 2.5!

good luck on the girl non ginger bit we have ginger mark two in our house.. :)

ruth said...

docile . . . going by the other immediate cousins, three of whom are girls, two of whom are both ginger - AND girls, AND docile - its looking good. a 66% chance that you wont get a feral hedghog like amelia. she has the slightest of ginger higlights, but i suspect she has a ginger soul - harder to see, but easy to detect if u know what u r looking for.
amelia has a big girl bed, and slept in it ALL NIGHT last night. on her own. no dramas. there is light at the end of our tunnel.

Simonne said...

Mel - www.thewoodentoybox.co.nz They were great, except for with an item we had on backorder, it's been about 6 weeks of mucking about with that and I've just cancelled the order.

We're still months away from transitioning to a big boy bed, possibly longer than that, but I'm not buying a new cot if we have a successful embryo transfer, so if all goes ahead, we'll transition him at an appropriate time so that a new kid can take his cot :-) It's more getting him used to it being around, and the room that it's in etc - he's a kid that doesn't like to be rushed ;-)