On the move

Tess is amazingly mobile these days. One minute she’s in the living room playing with some blocks, the next minute she’s in the hallway pulling all the shoes out of the shoe rack. It’s certainly had an impact in our household, we’re suddenly having to revist “baby-proofing” the house (Rose is a bit older now [...]

Celebrations

One of Rose’s best friends, Oliver, had a birthday on Saturday. We had such a lovely afternoon! There was face painting, a bounteous feast and lots of good conversation (for the adults) and running around (for the kids). Rose was a bit disappointed that it wasn’t her birthday. In fact, Oliver’s mum even re-lit his [...]

She’s got it all figured out

How is it that Rose has gone from single words to running linguistic rings around us?
This evening when I got home from work Rose met me at the door. She said, “Hello Mummy! That is a beautiful skirt.”
Also this evening I found a set of keys in the back door. This is strange only because [...]

Socratic questioning

When Rose wants to tell you something she prefers to do it in the context of a question and answer. She’s developed this complicated way of asking you a question that she actually wants you to ask her. It goes something like this:
Rose: Is it yummy?
Me: Is it yummy?
Rose: Yes!
She also uses it to indicate [...]

Tess’s birthday party

The last thing I feel like doing is uploading pictures from Tess’s party right now. Not that it wasn’t a fun party, or a really happy day for our little family, or a nice time with our friends, because it was all of those things. It’s just that my Nana is not well right now [...]

New photos

I just uploaded some new photos to our online album. Here’s a few of my favourites:
 

Making the car better

We just got back from a delicious meal of fish and chips down at Glebe Point, watching the boats go by and the sun set over the Anzac Bridge. On the way back Chris and I fell into a trans-fat related stupor but both revived when we both heard Rose say, “I make the car [...]

What chocolate crackles will and won’t make up for

Little Rose doesn’t want it to be Tess’s birthday. Well, she does and she doesn’t. She wants the chocolate crackles I’ve been promising. And the cupcakes, and the chips, and the balloons. But she doesn’t like the small mound of gifts that we’ve been describing as “Tess’s presents”. She’s finding it hard to understand that [...]

Hiatus

We’ve been super busy lately. A few weeks ago my mum came to stay for a week, and then at the tail end of that visit Chris’s parents were here. They left a few days ago. Tonight my Canadian friends Beau and Julia arrive for 10 days. Rose is moving up a room at her [...]

Locomotion

Leaving Tess for five days was one of the hardest things I’ve had to do. Every night we were in Melbourne I would go to sleep with her face in my thoughts. Her big beautiful smile, her fluffly [sic] hair, her soft clean smell. My hip ached where she should be.  My face felt less [...]