With the Wiggles (Guest post written by Daddy)

I took Rose to the Wiggles on Thursday. For non-Australasians, the Wiggles are a four-man band justifiably loved by children in these parts. They are fun, enthusiastic, thoughtful, and make kids ecstatically happy without pandering or being false in any way. I think it reflects creditably on Australia that they are the nation’s highest-earning entertainers. [...]

Teeth

During a particularly hearty laugh this afternoon I got to peer into Rose’s mouth and count her teeth. She has four front incisor teeth in the top and bottom, and four first molars. In other words, she has twelve teeth! By my counting, she only has another eight to go.

Collapsible Tunnel

I bought Rose a collapsible tunnel yesterday and she loves it. She’s been crawling in and out, jumping on top of it, and just generally having a ball.

If you’re wondering how her walking is going, it’s going great. Every morning the first thing she wants to do is practice. It makes us wonder if she’s [...]

First steps

Rose has been trying to walk all day! The most she has done is about five steps. The funniest thing is that she seems to only be able to do it when she’s carrying an umbrella. Maybe it’s for balance? Anyway, I wasn’t able to catch her best attempts at walking, but I do have [...]

Going low

I own about 700 CDs* which are stored in bookcase-style shelving in our living room. (You can see what they look like from this Christmas photo). Rose has remained largely ignorant of the delights of this media because we’ve successfully barricaded the collection with a chair, fan, and small side table. For ages she didn’t [...]

Yoddler Tears

I just read my friend Laura’s blog about how her 22-month old daughter Kate is being very erratic: one day everything’s great, then other days… the wheels come off. I could’ve written her last two posts myself!
Rose has had an up-and-down week, some days taking one sleep of 2 hours, another day having two hour-long [...]

Three hours, still going strong

There’s definitely some baby weirdness going on in Rose’s world. Lately she’s started taking one really long sleep in the mornings – 2 hours, sometimes 2 1/2 hours. Right now she’s freaking us out completely – she’s been asleep for just over 3 hours, without a peep!
However, the trade off seems to be some irregularity [...]

Da’

Dad left today, and we’re all feeling a bit sad this evening. We had a great visit. He spent a lot of time with Rose, taking her out to the playground, on some longish walks, and lots of monkeying around in the apartment. He gave me some much-needed breaks during the week and unflappably helped [...]

Grandad’s visit

We’re having a lot of fun with Grandad on this visit! I’ve uploaded some new photos so that you can see what we’ve been up to.

Happy Mothers Day!

Happy Mothers Day to all the mums out there! I’ve had a great day, starting with a lie in until 9am. Then I got flowers from Chris (irises), rocky road and soft-eating licorice from Rosie, and my Dad (who’s staying with us at the moment) gave me some dukkah.
Personal highlight of the day? Dancing around [...]