Dancin’?

The girl can’t stand unassisted. She definitely can’t walk. But the craziest thing has happened: she seems to be trying to dance!
We bought her an activity table for Christmas, and it has lots of things to push and pull with corresponding songs and jingles. She got the hang of activating the music pretty quickly, and [...]

A visit from the Christmas Police

Our Christmas ended up with us calling the police. All evening our neighbours had been playing really loud doof-doof music, and drunkenly calling out to passers-by. It was that really awful kind of techno music that’s played in suburban discos and gyms involving “oom-cha-oom-cha-oom-cha” bass lines. I heard an altercation with another neighbour from the [...]

Merry Christmas!

Well, Rose’s first Christmas was wonderful! It started rather early, at 6.40am. I tried to eek out a bit more sleep by breastfeeding her and putting her back down, but she was having none of it. Clearly the late bedtimes and excitements of the last few days have messed up her routines a little. So [...]

Christmas Eve in pictures

We took Rose out this evening to Christmas Eve mass. (Our friend is catholic, we aren’t, but we were keen on singing some carols!) We went through our evening routine a little early (dinner and a bath), but instead of ‘books and bed’ we dressed Rose up in a pretty outfit and blow-dried her hair. [...]

An early Christmas present…

Sometimes Rose is so compliant that I worry about taking advantage of her. Chris and I were up late last night ringing in some festive cheer with Raewyn, so when Rose woke at 6.10am we both groaned. In fact, Chris shook me and said, “Wake up, Sarah. [pause] Wake up, SARAH. Rose is crying, maybe [...]

Pop culture references

I’ve already mentioned that Rose does a particular yell that reminds me of Robert Plant. I was thinking today about the other things Rose reminds me of:

R2D2 (She does the same squeals of surprise)
Christopher Lloyd in “Back to the Future” (his hair)
Nick Nolte’s mug shot (Same confused stare)
The comic book guy from the Simpsons (same [...]

I could keep eating and eating, why can’t she?

Recent illness aside, the girl has a fluctuating appetite. Last week she couldn’t get enough of food. There’d be a round of peas, parsnip and lentils, followed by milky oats, followed by more fruit, and sometimes even more after that. This week? Fussy about most things, refusing to eat more than about five mouthfuls of [...]

On the mend

Rose is doing a lot better today, thankfully. She had a rocky time getting off to sleep last night, waking three times in the first hour and needing cuddles and back rubs to get her back to sleep. She woke again an hour after that, and then she slept through until 6.20am. Chris and I [...]

A fever of nonspecific origin

Poor Rose had a rough night. She developed a high temperature and woke every half an hour to an hour. Sometimes she re-settled herself, other times we got up with her. There was also a patch where we were all awake for several hours.
We took her to the doctor this morning because her temperature hadn’t [...]

Parents Group Christmas Party

We had a fun time at my parents group Christmas Party today. We did a “Secret Santa” (also known as a “Kris Kringle” and a “Yankee Swap”) Guess who didn’t know that a secret santa was supposed to be anonymous?

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