Oh Dear…

Rose is a squealer. This morning she yelped, squealed and shrieked with such force that Chris kept opening the door of the bathroom to check that everything was okay. I could only shrug and wave him back to his morning routine.
You’ve got to give the girl credit: she’s got both range and capacity. She can [...]

Vale Rocker

I’m sad to announce the demise of the rocker in Rose’s affections. Once useful, practical, portable and attractive, the rocker is now unloved. It was her first and most loved place of her own, where she played and slept happily. Now when you put her in it Rose arches her back and sticks her arms [...]

Hot Days

I can’t believe it – the mercury has hit 28 oC (81 oF) for the last two days here in Sydney! It’s way too early for it to be this hot! Rose looks quite shocked, and we’re going to have to do something about the swaddling ritual because it’s way too hot to wrap her [...]

The Cloth Nappy of Our Dreams

The cloth diapering is going great. I prefer them to disposables by a huge margin. They’re softer, cuter and much cheaper. Because we’re using biodegradable liners, the nappy changes involving solids are much more pleasant to deal with. The other benefit is rather intangible: they just feel right for us. The only problem with cloth, [...]

New Photos

Yesterday we went out and bought a new camera for my birthday. What’s that, I hear you say? Your birthday is a good 6 weeks away? Yeah, well we’re leaving for our big 7-week trip to the UK on September 20th, so my birthday is coming a little early this year.
Having the new camera made [...]

The lesser of two weevils

It seems to be pretty natural to compare yourself to others. Lots of things are positively ripe for comparison: academic achievement, career attainment, and knitting ability come to mind. However, when you have a kid evaluative comparisons hit new heights (if you pardon the pun).
My parents group is the main source of this activity because [...]

Hands are for grabbing

Along with her positively rambunctious behaviour Rose has been developing a set of new skills. For starters, her hands are getting really grabby. You put her in your lap and her hands grab-grab-grab at everything, from the pen in front of you, to your hair, to folds of your skin. The last two things are [...]

Socialisation?

Rose was a bit cranky yesterday. Nothing alarming, just a sort of low-grade “grizzle grizzle” cranky. The situation was made worse by the fact that it was raining like crazy, and cold, so we couldn’t get out of the house for a walk. So I pulled out my last card from the deck: I went [...]

Bye Granny-Jo!

We had a really nice long weekend with mum staying here. It was really fantastic having another pair of hands around the place. Also, mum was here to witness one of the biggest “poo firestorms” of Rose’s short life. I don’t want to get scatalogical on you, but we could only just cope between the [...]

Toys

For the first few months of her life, Rose wasn’t very interactive. She would mainly sleep, eat, and occasionally have periods of time when she looked around. (I’m omitting the crying.) We used to put Rose in her baby gym, but she would usually just lie there. She loved the mirror, but looking was all [...]