Meeting the Family

Everyone was absolutely besotted with William and it was like that the whole two weeks. Just fantastic to watch how adored he is and I drank quite a number of hot cups of tea because William was so preoccupied with everyone else. Wonderful really :-)

Looks who's here Rob!

I'm at Nana's and I haven't had an afternoon sleep, catch me if you can!! William did well until it came to bed the first night. We had to drive around in the car till he fell asleep, he had a huge night terror, came into our bed and once he realised we were still there in a different house he went to sleep by himself in the cot that Nana had borrowed and set up.

Nana and Grandy did a great job of preparing for us. We had a cot, the fanciest car seat you ever did see (Thanks Kel), a very trendy Big Red Pram (Thanks again Kel), toys and a high chair (thanks again Kel), cream, bath wash, sheets, nappies, wipes, food, panadol, new outfits (thanks Nana)and apart from having to move a few vases and coffee tables, unplug laps, plug cover electrical outings and gate the stairs, you'd think toddlers lived there it was amazing. Thank you thank you thank you!!!

During

One of his new books, a good distraction during turbulence, because whenever the seatbelt sign is on William was strapped to us, it wasn't always this pretty!!

It took us over a half hour to take off once we started taxiing out, luckily because William had been to distracted to eat much breakfast he was hungry enough to drink his bottle with Dorothy and fell asleep while we were taking off. I chuckled, thinking how amazed I was that he had fallen asleep, I thought it was going to be a bit more difficult than just taking off, like drugs lots and lots of drugs :-) Kidding I didn't actually take any sleepy drugs with me, not sure if that was brave or stupid :-)

Perth here we come!!

Waiting patiently, well for 5secs anyway!

He was actually watching two little girls sitting right next to him, very cute!

Aeroplane, "fly through the sky through the sky through the sky!" thank you Wiggles

On Wednesday the 22nd of October we flew to Perth to visit Nanag and Grandy, Great Uncle Gary, Julie, second cousin Robert and Samantha. This was William's very first plane trip and I can wait to repeat the experience. I have to admit I had forgotten how cramped Virgin blue is, add to the a 16mnth old for 6hrs and what do you get???? He was really quite good considering the confinement, we took a few new small toys, we loaded wiggles onto the laptop, he ate and had two short sleeps. I had kept him on the bottle because I was told it is good for their ears to drink a bottle while your landing, did he take the bottle landing, No, but I had a plan B, Sultana's like little healthy lollies, worked a treat. He had no problems at all with his ears which was brilliant, I had been a little anxious about how he would react.

The night before

Dan's Mum and Dad came to visit Will the night before we went to Perth for holidays. Granddad and Will had a great time on the swing :-)

Nana it's a plane

I wasn't there, but I'm guessing a Plane, Helicopter or Bird :-) Nice Big W shoes Mum, good buy, good taste :-) Cute outfit huh, that was one of my 25% off myer buys, nice very very nice and reebox shoes, trendy trendy! He doesn't care but it makes me all warm and fuzzy, he has more clothes than me and that's saying something :-)

With Nana and Pa

Going for a walk!

With Sooty and Pa

William spotted something, likely a plane!

Having a moment with Pa

A day out with Grandma and Grandad

Three boys!

Grandma, Grandad and Sooty

Hat, Sunnies and Sandwich, off we go. Trendy Man !!

The weekend before we went away to Perth we had a day out at the beach and park with William's Grandma and Grandad and of course Soot. We had a nice walk, some fish and chips and a bit of a play in the park and in the sand. Great day :-)

Up the slide at the park!

We did go down.....! But William has a thing for climbing up slides!

More park fun

On the slide with Daddy

My boys :-)

Such a happy little boy!

William's new trike, it was 50% off at myer and all the clothes I bought 25% off, I guess that means you can buy extra!! :-)

Park fun

Family fun at the park. So yummy in his litlle Target shirt (NEW) and best and less overalls, who says you can't look trendy on the cheap :-)

Pre Perth Outing

We went for a walk after William's afternoon sleep and we found a little friend.

Mummy and her divine little man

We walked and played at the park. Below Daddy in position!

Where is it? Dinner entertainment

Get ready it is about to disappear

So Where is it Mummy, where's it gone!!

Hooray! There it is :-)

If I want William to eat a full meal, it had to be dinner and a show, otherwise he wants to run off and make his own show. So tonight's show was the repeated disappearing of the fruit custard. He ate all his dinner and the disappearing custard, the things we do, Raquel has informed me that meal time entertainment does eventually pass, here's hoping I'm not disappearing a full roast when he is 16!!! William can't half make me smile.

So as you have probably noticed I haven't blogged of late, so here is Kara's week in 1000 words or less.....

Went to my school reunion Saturday a week ago and can you believe I didn't take a single photo! It was very nice to get dressed up and go out, at one stage Deb and I thought we might try and find somewhere to have a dance, but didn't have any idea where to go, how sad :-) Caught up with a whole lot of people I haven't seen for, let me see, 10years! There are only a handful of us that have kids, most of the girls are married and most of the boys are not, most have travelled or are about to, and that is our evening in a nutshell!

William plays with his hair when he is having a bottle before bed, he can say Mum, Dad, Pa, Ta, yeh, dere and the newest addition is Car, so clever so advanced :-)

We have been doing swimming for 5 weeks or so now and he loves it and apparently he is getting very good. He can hold himself up on the side for about 10 secs or so which is very good. He can on occasions get himself out of the pool and is always eager to throw himself back in the pool.

He points out the wiggles and Dorothy everywhere we see them, windows, clothes, toys, bags, DVD's, you name it, dere dere dere! Whenever we go past the pet shop he runs, stiff with excitment to the bird cages, he likes his birds and planes. Loves the swing, will sit in it for as long as you have the patience to push him, you try and get him off and the tray table comes right back around. He has a little thing for unrolling toilet paper and ripping it up. Likes drinking out of a GLASS or a BIG blue cup. Has no fear, climbs anything and everything he can, so far we have managed to limit the accidents to falling off the bed, and that is only once so far. However he still routinely runs into things because he doesn't look where he is going when he is in turbo mode. Remember the pictures of him head down crawling, well it hasn't changed, only now he is running, impact is not always pretty!

He is more than I ever imaged, an amazing little boy xoxoxoxox Love you Love you Love you xoxoxox

Mmmmm Chocolate

I was having a kit kat, an ALDI kit kat Nana, the other day while William was eating lunch, so as a treat I gave him a half of a half. I think he liked it :-)

I managed to get up enough confidence the other day to try him with peanut butter, just rubbed it on his lips, nothing happened thank goodness, but I don't think he is a fan. I also let him play with the open container to see if his skin reacted. So far so good, but I still don't think I have enough strength to give him a peanut butter sandwich, not that I think he would eat it.

Brisbane to Gold Coast 2008

This is what the start looked like - took about 30mins for the 30+ km/hr riders to clear before we got to go:

Due to a few glitches, some of my real-time posts didn't make it onto the blog yesterday. So here are a few of the "Here I am" posts:

Rest Stop 1: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=-27.703089,153.214560

Rest Stop 2: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=-27.867551,153.316998

Finish Line: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=-27.959508,153.412442

-- Geek

Rest stop 2 - Coomera

Yes, we're stuffed!

Sent from my iPhone

My ugly mug :-)

I survived! :-)

And we're done

Whew!!

Prepping to leave

Rest Stop 1

Time for a banana and a goo. Should be away soon...

Luckily, the rain has held off so far. Just cloudy and cool.

Wednesday :-)

Bouncing Bouncing Bouncing!!!!

Clapping! Yes my love you are very clever :-)

I had a spray tan this morning because my school reunion is this Saturday and today is the only day I have free before then. Although I was wondering to myself why I feel the need to look good, to impress people I see, um let me think, once every ten years.....!
And because following the spray tan I look like I have rolled in dirt (bronzer, it washes off when you have a shower) and got dirtier as the day went on (as the tan develops) I couldn't go out anywhere. Katherine did come for a visit, she is looking nice and busty/pregnant, she was complaining her boobs look bad because they have got so big all her veins are showing, well I was over in the corner envying needing a blood supply at all to that area. We had a nice time, William slept from 11:30 till 13:30, which was brilliant, especially since Kat came over about 1pm, we had a cuppa and chat before he even got up, that doesn't happen often, I have a magnificent and it seems considerate little boy.

So during our afternoon of indoor/backyard fun, Will made his way into the back bedroom and wanted to get into he old turn table play-centre thing. I put him in as requested by the pointing and er er er noises, he went nuts, jumping, stomping, playing, "I got some video, want to see?". It was funny so of course I had to get photo's. Everyday I think how lucky I am, to be given such a perfect little man
to love my whole life, xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo you truly are a gift and you are exciting everyday, I love you love you love you!!!

Look it's William again!

Aunty Kristin thanks for the nice shirt!

More because I couldn't narrow it down

Kisses for Mummy through the glass, awwww!

Never did I think something so perfect could come out of me! no comments required, We breed em good!

Just because he is divine

He is so big now!

This was after he had been inside knocking and I was laughing, he came outside and poked his head around the corner. Such a magnificent specimen!! That IVF, it's good stuff!

Another one of William's new talents, if someone (in this case me) leaves the study gate open, William runs inside and locks you out. Then throws your shoes back at you, real nice.

Knock Knock

William was knocking on the glass, playing games and I was knocking back saying, "knock knock who's there". A few times during the window knocking he would run to the front door yelling Pa Pa Pa, I think he though they were knocking at the door.

Coming outside, isn't he handsome!!

Clapping Clapping to the music!!

A Tuesday afternoon

I think that's a happy face.....! He was showing off for the camera, he knows it well.

He can climb the slide stairs by himself now, but I can't help myself I have to stand behind and but my hand on his hips, just in case!

A handful of stones as usual. When we are out in the garden the stones is where he wants to spend most of his time and it hurts my feet. It's ok when your 10kg, but when your over 50kg the whole gravity thing does bad things to your feet....

Horaay the swing

Not bad at all Pa, very pleased he is I think!

Pa did it, he's so clever!!

Up the ladder, very clever William, Mummy is having a few palpitations though precious!

This is post molars, much happier. However because Nana and Pa were over he refused to go to sleep until they left just after two, then he went straight to sleep and I woke him up at 4:30 because I didn't want him up till midnight. He gets so excited when Nana and Pa are around, very very cute.

Our little helper

Carrying wood

Climbing the ladder with Nana's help

Playing with the swing frame bolt thingy!

It's the paint, yes that's right darling!

Nana and Pa came over on Sunday to put up William's swing. Pa who is brilliant at everything made a frame and put up the swing, with a little help from Dan and Will. Thanks pa, the swing is great fun :-)

Playtime

Playtime with Daddy, kicking the ball together!

Aeroplane!

Throwing William around, he enjoys it!

It has been busy lately, hence the lack of blogging, actually it seems to be busy all the time at the moment, but I guess it's a season and everything I am doing I enjoy so it's a good kind of busy :-)

In the last couple of weeks I have managed to find a Mentor for my course and began in CARDIAC (can you believe it) two weeks ago and if all goes well and they don't kick me out, I will be doing every friday as clinical prac. Apart from the nausea and chest pains (ha ha I made a funny!) from being so overwhelmed by everything I have to learn, it's really amazingly exciting.

William has also cut two molars, which caused temperatures, vomiting, sleeplessness, decreased appetite and I am guessing a lot of pain. It was awful, we had him panadol and nurofened up for about three days which seemed to help a bit, but he was grumpy and tired and very out of sorts, it's quite heart wreanching watching him all sad and stuff..... :-( He has started sleeping through again and must be catching up because he is sleeping for the second time today, hence the blogging. Hopefully he will get a break before the next ones, I think I need one too, I could be a slightly highly strung parent, just maybe :-) :-) plus the lack of sleep it's really hard when you have work, I only did half a day on friday last week because he was still not 100% by the afternoon and I ran into the gravel on the side of the highway falling asleep, disturbing feeling.

William now does not require any assistance getting up and down the step from the alfresco, but he still likes to hold my hand when he goes down the slide. He is absolutely taken with the stones lining the back section of the yard, and he particularly enjoys throwing stones down the drain which is of course " NOT for William". He also likes pouring handfuls of sand in the house, which is also a "NOT for William" but he does it anyway if you don't catch him quick enough. Esther said to me the other day, "he handles NO really well", I said " That's because he doesn't pay a blind bit of notice!!" I am getting there, sometimes he listens, most times not, he even gets punished, time out in he naughty corner, especially after pouring the dogs water out all over the floor which is one of his more annoying passions. However, William would be nearly the only person in the world that could, bring in sand, block up drains with stones, pull hair, spill water, empty draws etc and bring me the most joy I could have ever dreamed possible, and I really don't do sand!!! xoxox Love you beautiful boy, hugs and kisses.