a busy weekend

this weekend has seen Ant out and about being the beautiful social butterfly that he is…

On Firday night he went to his first gig – Andy’s (ATEI’s) farewell to 26 years at the Centre for Aboriginal Music (CASM). Andy dedicated his first song with Trochus (his island ska band) to Ant and we had a bit of a boogy to it. Babcia got into the groove too! we lasted until about 11pm and then went home and Ant konked it in the car on the way back. As his father says it was a mighty fine effort to last that long (there was a wee bit of snoozing during the first band – won’t sleep through the night but will through a live rock band!).

He recovered yesterday with a visit from Babcia and today we went out to the Elders HR Xmas picnic where he did some fine flirting with the ladies and stole a sausage and a lot of fried onion (!!!) from his dad’s plate. this was on top of about a kilo of cheese, biscuits, dip, an experiment with a kalamata olive which has been revealed about the first thing that he doesn’t like, although he did give it a second attempt after dunking it in the cheese and chive dip – but no good! he also had semolina, peach and apricot and 2 boobs of milk. i think that he’s having a growing spurt.

a busy weekend

As it was our 3 year anniversary last week, Ant was babysat by Grandma on Saturday night so that we could go out for dinner. we enjoyed the time but i think that Ant would have liked to come too… nothing about Grandma, all about the clinginess.

today the weather was fabulous so we spent some time in the backyard and went to a local park to feed the ducks. The photos say it all. Click for bigness.

watching the ducks with dad

enjoying a book in the park

mmm stick, tasty

camera inspection

escaping into the laundry

Atei came for a visit this afternoon to see our new house. and he had some excellent gifts for Ant from a recent trip to Melb. including some cool animal figurines (iguana style cool) and a book that impressed everyone. Ant is book obsessed and was keen to get straight into it.

Atei

And this is a cute photo of Ant and his Dad’s hands

too long between posts

anyway, so now that i have my own camera i have taken some new shots of Ant for the blog (M appears to have gone on strike) no i”m not he says but has nothing other than I’m busy to say…

Ant has been going to childcare since beginning of Sept and is loving it and catching every bug under the sun. last week it culminated in a lovely dose of viral infection in the lungs – pneaunomia. i have been at home with him for a week now and will be very pleased when he can go charging around the childcare centre. i think he’s sick of the lounge room! me too. And of course he has passed on the germs to M and i. Excellent!!

We are in our fabulous new house and enjoying having space and luxuries like air con and dish washers. Ant likes the hallways – still not walking but crawling with speed and pulling himself up on everything. See the picture below.

Since the alst psot, Micahel has started work as a Business Development Manager at Austpost and is glad to be out of IT after 9 years. I have gotten sick of Elders and am going to start a new job at Anglicare in January. it comes with a car!! hooray I guess…

not a lot else to report other than we are in the new place and despite a good dose of illness all around we are ok. I have had my tonsils out, which whilst not quite as painful as child birth was fairly unpleasant but i think worth it. its amazing – i can breathe at night.

photos of house will follow soon. click for bigness.