Run Rabbit Run!

Well today Damien and I have taken a momentous first step to us getting fit again as we have started running.  Damien gets up at 6am and does his run then and I go for my run at 6pm when he gets home.  Actually the first run wasn’t that bad, I thought I was going to be hopeless but I ran for 25 minutes and only walked a bit of the way.  I also ran nearly as far as Damien as well.  I think a bit of healthy competition between us will spur us both on to carry on getting fit. 

 

It’s just over a week to Mia’s first birthday and we’ve bought her a few presents already.  We’ve decided to take her to Taronga Zoo for her birthday instead of trying to organise a party for her, especially as we don’t have any family here and don’t know that many people with babies either.  Plus I’m sure she would find looking at animals far more interesting.  Damien is taking the day off work and coming with us. I’m going to try and get a Happy 1^st Birthday balloon to tie onto her pushchair so that everyone knows it is her birthday when we go to the zoo.

Sorting overdrive

Mia’s little sorting phase has gone into overdrive.  Everything she gets her hands on has to be put somewhere and then it is moved to another place and then back again whether it be on the sofa or piles on the floor or in little baskets that we bought for her.  It’s constant. She just keeps repeating it all.  I had all the clean, dry laundry in piles on the sofa ready to be taken into the bedrooms and next thing I know, they are all in little separate piles on the floor and all over the place!  So I left her a few bibs to sort and that kept her happy for at least half an hour, whilst I had my lunch.  She just kept picking them up and then putting them down, it was hilarious.  All the time, she is babbling to herself and she looks deeply serious about it all as if there is some great method behind the sorting.  I just had to video it and couldn’t stop laughing.  I’ll try and post it on here when we get back on the internet.

 

She does it with all the wet washing as well.  I have to hang it all out as quick as I can before some tiny little hands start pulling the clothes off and throwing them on the floor, only for her to attempt to rehang them again!  She loves it.

Posing Mia

Had a great weekend again.  We met up with a few friends and had a barbeque at Bronte Park, just behind Bronte Beach.  It was a lovely day and there were a few other babies there as well.  I think Mia may have been the eldest but she didn’t seem to like it when all the babies were plonked down next to each other, she seemed to want to escape and kept looking at me to help her.  Well she was ok at first as she was having her picture taken and was the only one posing.   Then she got a little worried that I had left her there.  She didn’t mind them all playing with her toys though.

 

I’ve now had a chance to decorate Mia’s room.  I've found some stickers that you put on the walls but they are like transfers, so you can take them off and move them around as much as you want.  They won’t leave any mess on the walls when we have to move out.  So I got a few lantern shapes and patterns in pink and purple.  I’ve also put up some nice lights that I draped around her built-in wardrobe so that gives her room a lovely atmosphere.  It’s the first time I have had chance to actually decorate a nursery for her because in the flat in Finchley she didn’t have her own room and then when we got to the new place in Barnet, we weren't sure whether we would be moving to Australia or not so we didn't want to start painting the walls.

 

Mia is well and truly walking/toddling now.  She just toddles around our lounge, happy as anything.  Often I nip into the kitchen to make myself a coffee and I can hear her coming in following me, and I keep expecting her to be crawling on the floor but she is stood up and walks over to me.  She just seems to have aged overnight.  She is a proper little girl now, I can’t believe how fast this last year as gone. 

Almost bald!!!

We drove over to Sydney’s Olympic Park today.  We were going to take Mia on a bike ride as you can hire a trailer to put her in, but they didn’t have any available.  Her head was too small for the smallest helmet as well, so she couldn’t sit in a seat on the back of one of our bike’s either.  We were disappointed but will just have to take her on a bike ride when she is a little bit older.

 

So we just had a walk around the Olympic Park and its stadiums and then went through to the Bicentennial Park and found a nice little café.  I went to order for us and I was stood in the queue for ages as the staff seemed extremely harassed.  When I ordered the guy asked us where we were sat, so I told him in the corner where that man is sat with the baby.  So he started to write down on our order “Bald man with baby” so I laughed and said to him, “Bald man! Charming, I’ll let him know that!” He looked a bit worried then, but I was just joking with him and next thing I know he’s written down “Almost bald man with a baby”.  I just laughed and literally ran off to let Damien know what had happened.

What no internet

I’m sat in an internet café at the moment because we don’t have the internet at home. Apparently it takes 3 to 4 weeks for the internet to be installed – great. So not only can we only tune in our tv to get one channel, we don’t have the internet either. We do have a home phone at last, so at least we can communicate with the outside world. So I probably won’t be able to update this with Mia’s antics as often.

Damien also dropped his laptop a few days ago, which caused something called the Logic Board to go, which means it is too expensive to fix. He is gutted. The hard drive is saveable so at least we haven’t lost all our pictures of Mia, well we hope we haven’t. I’m sure we’ll found out soon enough. My voluntary redundancy has been agreed and I had promised Damien I would be buying him something, so maybe he dropped it on purpose (only kidding).

Plastic balls to you

Took Mia to a baby play area today round the corner. It’s a soft play area with those plastic ball pits. She loved it, in fact I think she just loved watching the boys playing boisterously in the pit, jumping around. I had to move her quickly out of the way, or else she would have got a foot in her face. She didn’t seem to mind though and hopefully she will be just as boisterous as them when she gets older.

What a walker!

Just took Mia to a nursery round the corner that I am interested in putting her in. I think we both really liked it but unfortunately they don’t have any places at the minute. Mia is on their waiting list, so I will just have to pester them to take her in, even if it’s for only one day at least she gets in there and I can start to look for a job.

The place and the people seem really nice. The room seemed larger and brighter than the other nursery I had a look at and at least with this one I got to see how the carers are with the babies they look after already. The toddlers were being fed at the time, and all seemed really quiet in their highchairs being fed. They won’t know what has hit them if Mia gets a place there, as she is extremely noisy when she eats, either screaming or blowing raspberries or just generally moaning at me to hurry up and get the next bit of food ready!

Mia started to cry when we were leaving as I think she was having fun with the musical bells she was playing with but that set off a little boy called George. He came running towards us crying as we went out through the doors. Maybe he will be a future little friend for Mia – he was only 7 months older than her so would be in the same school year.

Mia has been walking a lot further on her own today. I just have to place her on her feet and let go and she’ll just go off walking, stopping for a bit having a look around and then sets off walking again. So I am classing this as Mia is officially walking now.

I went off exploring the area and shops and found a great hidden little place full of great little shops. It’s great round here, you don’t really need to go into the city. There are plenty of restaurants, cafes, takeaways etc all on our doorstep. Perfect for visitors, so get yourselves over here quick!

We’re not moving again – well for another year at least

We have finally moved into our new place in Cremorne. We moved in yesterday and managed to unpack quite a lot of boxes. Still about a million to go though. The removals guys were brilliant, they unpacked and set up all the bigger pieces of furniture and then we had to do the rest.

Damien had to go back to work today, so I just set about trying to sort Mia’s room out and sort through all her clothes and pack the ones that don’t fit her into a box. Mia did a great job of helping me out, I gave her a pile of about 20 baby grows that are too small for her and just let her get on with creating little piles of her own. It’s a phase she is going through at the moment, everything she lays her hands on gets sorted in piles. She’ll put some things in one place, then others somewhere else. Then she’ll decide they are not right and move them all around again or just throw them all over the floor. So the lounge was full of white baby grows with a smiling Mia in the middle of them all!

Oh and tooth number eight has made an appearance.

Rubbish mummy day

Oh what a horrendous day for me today. For the first time in a long, long time I actually went out last night with my cousin and her friends and got completely paralytic on wine. I didn’t even have anything to eat as I didn’t have time. What an idiot. Had a really good night though. I haven’t been out properly since before I got pregnant I think, I can’t really remember.

I ended up getting the last ferry home to Manly. I have no idea how I managed to get to the ferry wharf, let alone even get on the ferry. Don’t even remember saying bye to everyone. I do remember staggering down George Street, trying to read a text that Damien had sent me, but I just couldn’t focus on it properly.

I’m rubbish with hangovers, so you can imagine what I was like having a baby to look after (well Damien did most of that in the morning, I think I was still drunk) and we had to go shopping for a fridge/freezer today – like I really wanted to be doing that. Oh well, never again.