I am about to inundate you with pics of the boy and nothing else, so if you don't wish to see them, please move forward to the next window.  There are a few, as it has been so long and he is so cute!

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Well aloha! Yes, I'm still alive. Barely. Had a fab xmas and New Year - just returned from 10 days up north on Sunday, so I've been up to my eyeballs in unpacking/washing/food shopping etc, not to mention returning to work this morning, so that's why things have been a bit grim on the update front. Apologies to all of those who have sent me emails, sms's etc that I haven't replied to yet - I'm getting there! Our mobiles are with Optus now and we discovered AFTER arriving in Kalbarri that they didn't have Optus coverage, so I was out of contact range for over a week.

Had xmas lunch for the family at our place, which was great but a shitload of work - don't know if I'd be in a hurry to do it again! Maybe on a smaller scale - 15 ppl was more than I'm used to catering for. That was Round 2 anyway - Round 1 was a few of Ben's family spending xmas eve with us as they're French and the Europeans do a lot of celebrating on xmas eve. His mum & grandma arrived on Friday 23rd and then his aunty and uncle the next day, so I was basically cooking and cleaning for those two entire days, although his mum & grandma did help a lot. We had roast turkey and vegies for xmas eve dinner, as well as these spesh eggs that bens grandma does that we all love - she usually does them with tuna and a homemade mayonnaise but for xmas she did them with prawns - yummo. We had Ben's mum pick us up a whole crapload of seafood on her way down, which formed the basis of our seafood & salad lunch on xmas day. We also had leftover turkey and ham, as well as a whole new turkey that we roasted and sat in the oven uneaten! Topped off by trifle, pav, sponge cake and fruit kebabs for dessert, we were all decidedly full!

It was so much fun having Braydens first xmas and he got well and truly spoilt! I think we were still opening presents at about 11am when my family arrived for round 2. Unlike a lot of babies, he was actually quite interested in all the goings on and gave the opening thing a fair bash and didn't get too bored. I'm still trying to find homes for the stack of toys and bloody truckloads of clothes he recieved, but I'll get there eventually. I think a new chest of drawers is in order. I do have some pics to post up, but I have to transfer them over from the laptop so as soon as I do that, you can share!

The only downside of xmas weekend was losing our beloved Tyson - a freak accident that left us all a bit shellshocked. We have since found out that cross-breed rotties have a genetic defect known as the 'wobbles', where they have a small bone missing at the base of their neck that weakens their spine. I had gone to Coles bright and early xmas eve to pick up the fresh fruit etc and Ben was fluffing around getting the outdoors ready and while Ben's mum was sweeping the back decking, she was throwing his ball for him. Now, anyone who has ever met Tyson or who partook in a Winthrop party of the ben'n'kel variety will know how goddamn obsessed he was with his ball. Anyhoo, bens mum had brought her little poodle with her and while Tyson was chasing his ball in one instance, he leapt up to catch and as much as we can gather, sort of tried to turn his head around mid-air to make sure the poodle wasn't in pursuit as well. He landed funny and Ben's mum (her name is actually Trish) said he just tried to get up and had no back legs. He was trying to run back to her but nothing was happening and he was all a bit confused - she yelled for Ben who was inside doing something and he came running out in in socks, only to slip on the deck and stack it down the stairs in the process (oh dear!). Anyway, next thing I know I get a phone call while I'm loading the shopping into the car saying I had to come to the vets and say goodbye to Tyson. When I got there Trish filled me in and I went inside and found Ben inconsolable and Tom the vet saying we had to put him to sleep :( I was so expecting him to be in pain after I heard the story, but he wasn't - he had in effect broken his back and had no movement or feeling from about half way down his spine, so he was the equivalent of a paraplegic in humans and couldn't move his rear legs or tail. He could still move his front legs but he messages from his brain trying to operate the back half were working overtime and as a result his front legs kept stiffening and his head arching back. He was so happy though panting away with his head in Ben's lap and just wondering when Tom would fix him so he could go back chasing his ball. Tom said that there was only one surgeon in Perth who would even attempt to operate and try to repair the damage but it would cost a fortune and didn't rate the chances of it being successful very highly, plus with xmas and what not it would take days to even organise, so Ben and I decided that it wasn't fair to put him through that anyway and he would never be the same, so we had to say goodby to him. I've grown up with animals all my life and being a farm girl have been around my fair share of dogs, but Tyson was a very special one. I can understand if animals are sick or ailing or old or whatever, but having to put such a young, healthy, happy dog to sleep when he had been so well only an hour before just broke my heart. Even Tom and Kirsty, the other vet, were in tears as they've had a lot to do with Tyson (and Mishka) and loved him too. I really wanted to sit with him while they gave him the needle so he wasn't around strangers but I couldn't, so I just gave him a kiss and left Ben with him. We miss him heaps and poor Mishka just keeps looking for him everywhere, and I got so used to him being with me and Brayden during the day that it's going to take a while before I stop expecting to see him at the door, but time will make it easier I guess. Poor Ben had to enlist a few helpers in my uncle Gavin and cousin Craig to finish getting the lawn mowed and gazebo up etc for xmas day as he just couldn't seem to function properly, but we got it all done and had a nice tea that night with bens family and drank a little toast to tyson and his ball in doggy heaven.

Anyhoo, on a brighter note, we were all pooped by xmas night but had more visitors after everyone left when Gary & Leanne came to visit for a while, then Trish & bens grandma went home on boxing day and I had to whip around the spare room changing the bed etc for when Ben's friend Benny (his best man) arrived that afternoon. Benny has been stationed in Oman but has just transferred to Holland, so was home on hiatus between jobs and it was the first time he'd been back to Oz since our wedding, so it was great to see him. Having Gary in Manji at the same time for xmas with his family meant all three of the boys were able to catch up at the same time and boy, did they ever catch up. It was great to see him though and we were sorry he couldn't stay longer, but he had to spend time with his mum etc in Perth so went home the next day. Didn't have any time to dwell though, as we were heading off on our holiday the next day so I had about a weeks worth of washing and packing to cram into 24 hrs. Now you can probably understand why I haven't updated. We finally headed to Perth at about 1pm the next day for yet ANOTHER dinner at Trish's - as it was her birthday and seeing as Ben's sis and a few other of his family members couldn't join us for xmas we had a double celebration. It was also the first night Brayden slept through - 11 hrs 7.30 to 6.30 (yay!) and has done so ever since (double yay!!), with the exception of last night as he has a cold and was having trouble getting enough air into his lungs poor tike. We then headed to Geraldton the next day for 2 nights where we met up with Paul & Katrina and their baby Chanelle (same age as Brayden), then we all headed to Kalbarri on NYE. Had a nice night just relaxing with a few drinks and listening to the bands at the pub, but I was so tired I was in bed by about 12:20! Did the usual touristy things during the week - spent a bit of time at the beach, played a couple of rounds of mini-golf, visited the Rainbow Jungle parrot breeding oasis, Katrina & I went horseriding and the boys hired a boat and went fishing (came back sunburnt and with 1 fish - a north west blowie! bwhahha) and did wayyyy too much drinking and eating. In the end, we were looking forward to getting home and having a bit of time to ourselves. It was nice sharing the holiday with other people but it can sometimes stretch the friendship a bit and things got a bit strained a couple of times towards the end there! We left Kalbarri after dinner on Friday night as we figured while Brayden was sleeping through, we may as well chuck him in the car at bedtime and hopefully he'd sleep all the way, which he did. We arrived in perth at about 2.30am Saturday and although he did wake up then, I just gave him a feed and put him back to bed and he went back to sleep until 9am. Then I got to have a bit more of a sleep-in while Trish carted him around to show off to all her neighbours as she does.

Since then, I've just been trying to wind down and get back into routine and get this bomb site of a house cleaned up - the frikkin xmas tree is still up atm - and get ready for going back to work which I did this morning. Looking forward to a nice relaxing few weeks ahead and hopefully a generally uneventful 2006, just lots of time with hubby and our gorgeous little boy, who is still growing and learning and discovering at a rate of knots. He's currently smearing his rusk all over the filing cabinet drawer and thinking its quite funny. He isn't quite crawling yet but still manages to cover a bloody lot of ground squiggling along the floor, and quite quickly too! I'm finding I'm really starting to have to keep eyes on him or he ends up wedged under the coffee table or behind a door or with his head between the couches or something. As we speak he has squiggled out of the office door into the kitchen as he spotted a bit of paper hanging out of the bookshelf where my recipe books are, and he loves paper.

Better go and rescue him and also get the washing off the line and start organising dinner! Hopefully I'll transfer the xmas & holiday snaps over tonight so I can post them all up tomorrow, so stay tuned!

RIP Tyson Latter

3/7/2000 - 24/12/2005

You captured a great many hearts in your short life boy and we will love and miss you always.

xx

YAY FOR SUMMER!! And not a moment too soon I might add. I think I can now safely pack away my ugg boots...that were last worn all day on Wednesday...bwhwha. If someone had've told me a few months ago that I'd still be wearing ugh boots at night 2 weeks into December I think I would have had them incarcerated.

I had my hair cut today...it's just starting to recover from an horrendous razor-cut incident of about 3 months ago when I had to book at the last minute and couldn't get my normal hairdresser...won't be making that mistake again. Anyhoo we are having some family photos taken tomorrow to give to the parental and grand-parental units for xmas, plus one or two to keep for ourselves too so I'm looking forward to that. Mind you I must do something about Ben's hair first as he went for the mohawk look a few weeks back and it has now grown back sufficiently enough that it now looks like he has a ferret on his head.

All sorted for xmas - just have to take delivery of ben's new bbq during the week (NO-ONE MENTION THIS TO HIM PLS!!) and pick up a digi camera for my bro (expecting a bub in march..well, his other half is) and a cordless phone for my sis (moving out on her own in the new yr) and wrap them, and then get some frames for the photos and wrap them and we're all done n dusted. Need to get this out of the way early in the week so i've got time to start shopping/cooking for the chrissy day onslaught at our place, beginning with the arrival of half of ben's family on friday morning, followed by a few more on saturday, with festive feasting commencing on saturday night with xmas eve roast (bloody europeans who celebrate on xmas eve), then an all day feast on xmas day starting with a pancake & champagne breakfast...followed by the opening of presents when all of my family arrive, at which point I assume ben will be promptly out setting up and testing his new addition to the outdoor entertainment family in preparation for the MEGA seafood and cold meat/salad lunch we have planned (at this point we have 10kgs of prawns, 8kgs of squid, 9 crayfish, 5kgs of marron and 3kgs of scallops...mmmm). Along with the turkey & chook followed by my nan's famous trifle, some pavlova, custard puffs and fruit platters, we should all still be eating well into next winter.

Ok wayyyy past my bedtime now, will try to update more during the week about other stuff and post up some more pics of the boy :)

Once again I apologise for not upda....nahhhhh stuff it...not apologising anymore :)  I'll update when I'm bloody good and ready! So there :P

LOVIN this weather...feels like its been so long coming but I'm glad it's finally here. Going outside to do my first lot of weeding for 4 months. YAY.  Been dying to get stuck into that...I have thistles that look like karri trees.  Just waiting for squirt to wake up before I go out there coz otherwise I can't hear him from out the front...having a champion sleep, as he's been down since 11am *waiting waiting*.  Very unusual, but I'm not complaining.

Went to Perth 2 weekends ago for our annual post office staff social outing to the big smoke thingy and had a great time.  Stayed at Broadwater Pagoda apartments and I must say, as nice as the Pagoda resort is, the apartments leave a little to be desired.  Nice enough, but I've definitely stayed in cleaner places.  And the room service man was ROOD ROOD ROOD.  Anyhoo, Ben & I headed up on the Friday arvo (with enough shit to take on a 3 month safari I swear) with the intention of making it to a family photo shoot we had booked for 2pm, but alas, we didn't even get onto the freeway until 1pm and I still had to get Brayden fed & changed, me fed and changed and made up and us checked in and car unloaded etc, so unfortunately we had to cancel.  On the upside, it freed up our afternoon for a bit of relaxing and a walk around the foreshore.  Headed off to Gary & Leanne's for tea..was good to see them again...and got back to the hotel about 11ish to find everyone else had arrived and was making mucho noiso around the pool.  Needless to say I left them to it and went to bed.  Saturday morning we had to ourselves, so us 3 plus my aunty & uncle (my aunty works at the post office too) who we were sharing an apartment with, headed into the city for a spot of shopping.  Somehow became completely trapped in Toys'r'Us, and I think this xmas Brayden will be the most over-indulged 5.5 month old to ever grace the earth.  My god.

Headed back to the apartments for lunch and then met up with everyone else for our zoo trip.  About this time, Brayden decided to start complaining about the humungous amount of formula my mum decided to pour down his neck on the previous thursday (300mls in one sitting folks..geezus..you'd think someone who had had 3 kids would know better, wouldn't you? Especially for a breastfed baby).  I had noticed that he hadn't done number 2's for a lot longer than normal, and it seems the excessive feed really clogged him up and he wasn't going to stand for this sitting in the pram bizzo.  Pick up and carry around = happy, put in pram = scream.  Considering the little squirt is over 7kgs now, carrying him around the whole zoo wasn't really feasible so Ben & I spent the majority of the afternoon amusing ourselves and him on the lawn while everyone else did the sightseeing thing.  POO POO POO. And on Sunday morning, after the most restless nights sleep he's had in a while, it all came out.  POO that is, and lots of it :) Two days worth, to be exact.  No more tummy aches anyway, and yes, my mum got a right old serve the next time I saw her.  Anyhoo, went to visit ben's mum for lunch, stopped at harbourtown quickly to spend my pumpkin patch vouchers, then headed home.  Was an interesting, rushed and exhausting trip all up!

On the weekend just gone we went up to Bunbury for the night on Saturday as I was going to A Day on the Green with some gf's.  Ben was babysitting but we booked a hotel for the night coz I cant get away with not feeding for that long just yet.
I left him and went and met up with the girls at about 3 and he managed to get bub fed, bathed and into bed without too much fuss so I was quite impressed.  Meanwhile, it was an absolutely stunning day at the Sanctuary and I was having a right ripper old time downing a whole bottle of wine to myself (woops!) and dancing away to Kasey and Pete. Kasey was on at 5.30 (right on dusk - was so nice) and Pete at 7.30 so I didn't get back to the hotel until 10, and lets just say my attempt at feeding left a little to be desired *ahem*.  Luckily Ben thought it was quite hilarious and I just ignored him, had a nice long shower and thankfully Brayden decided he wasn't that hungry anyway (either that or he didn't fancy pickled milk) and went back to sleep until 3am.  For that I was eternally grateful, because I don't think I was capable of much before then.  As it was I had to open one eye at a time and just make sure my vision had returned to normal before getting up.  Felt slightly off in the morning but not too bad at all...fixed up entirely by a maccas breakfast :)  There was a Telethon thingamebobby on at Bunbury forum so we were actually able to mosey around on Sunday and do some shopping before heading home.  I managed to lose my good sunnies at the concert, so if nothing else it was a good excuse to buy some more.  Also brought the new Patricia Cornwell book, gawd only knows how long it will take me to get through it though.  Gone are the days of me finishing a book in a matter of hours...this one will probably take me the better part of a year.

It is still going okay with work, but I do find myself completely and utterly bushed come Fridays, so I have been considering asking if I can job share with another girl they have put on and do 5 day fortnights on a 3-2 rotation, but it will all depend on how it will affect their budgets etc.  Depends on how it will affect our budget too, so will have to have a chat to husband dearest about his spending habits :P

Actually have a totally free weekend coming up, which I am looking forward to immensely, as the last few free weekends we've had it has been pissing down/freezing cold/both.  The weekend after that Ben's mum & sis are coming to stay and I also have my 10 yr school reunion so the girls are coming down from Perth as well, so it will be full on.  Then a couple of weekends after than Ben's friend Benny who was the best man at our wedding is coming over for xmas and its the first time he's been back since the wedding, so we are looking forward to seeing him.  Then the weekend after that of course is xmas and we are hosting the big family do at our place this year, so I'm getting myself all in a tizzy making sure that I'm going to be organised for that.  Not that there will be a lot to do, but I want to be able to relax and enjoy the day for the first time that we don't actually have to pack up and drive somewhere, so I want to have it all sorted beforehand.

Anyhoo I have a staff meeting tonight and its taken me about 2 hrs to actually get this entry posted, in between ben coming home for lunch, brayden waking up and wanting to be fed and me starting on the weeding, so now I'd better get stuff organised for tea etc seeing as I'm going to be out and Ben has pistol shooting tonight.

ciao luvvlies :)

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Good golly gosh I actually have 5 mins to update.  Actually I don't really coz Brayden is on the floor at my feet and has grown tired of laughing at the bright orange bit of paper on the pin-up board and has started to announce his boredom, but I'm ignoring him.

Life atm = motherhood and I'm loving it, but damn if the days/weeks don't fly by faster than I can look at the clock.  Our visit to Perth last month was great, although we were flat fucking tack the whole time.  Even though we lived there for nigh on 10 yrs, we still never seem to take into account the time wasted by traffic and/or red lights, and consequently were late for everything and it just snowballed into one big fat lateness trip.  Apologies to Kristy and the three other people we (or I) had visits scheduled with that we had to cancel.  One was actually with a gf I lived with when I first moved to Perth, who wanted to use my visit to tell me she is up the duff with No. 5 (yes folks, FIVE), so she had to make do with the phone once I got home.  Brayden had had it up to the eyeballs with his capsule by the time we were ready to head home, as he had been inoutinoutinout of the dumb thing for 4 days, so yes, we were all glad to get home in the end.

Next visit is scheduled for 4/5 Nov when we have my annual post office pissup in the big smoke, and we are all staying at the Broadwater Pagoda Apartments in South Perth and doing fun things like visiting the zoo and all that, so should be fun.  Ben and I are also doing our very first xmas shopping at Toys'R'Us, *yay* and the credit card is starting to quiver.  Fark nose what I'm going to get Ben, but I'll think about that later.  Hopefully I may get time to catch up with previously cancelled ppls, but will see how we go.  Maybe I'll just say 'ill be here at such n such a time' and let everyone come to me.

Started back at work Wednesday before last and its going okay so far, so fingers crossed.  Brayden has slept through the night a couple of times but isn't doing it consisently yet, so it does make for a pretty long day if I have to do a 4am feed or some such thing, but we're coping.  Ben stays home for the 3 hrs I'm at work and looks after him, and I arrive home a little after 9.30 at which point we swap and he goes off to earn some moolah.  There were a few days there when I wondered if it was all worth it coz I was so knackered, so I did make some enquiries with centrelink and asked how much our family assistance would be if I stopped work all together, and based on their response (BLAH) promptly decided I would perservere.

Can't believe its bloody nearly half way through October already...it has now officially been over a year since I last had a period...bwhaha how good is that.  I giggle every time I walk down the tampon aisle at Coles.  I'm sure I'll be giggling on the other side of my face before too long so I'd best shutup.

Our little man is growing like a mushroom at the mo and as soon as the weather warms up a bit, will be transitioning from bassinette in our room to cot in his own room...the nursery is at the front, cold end of the house and the nights are still just a bit too cool for him to be in there, so even though he's practically head-to-toe in the bassinette we will have to stick it out a bit longer.  He's just precious and every day makes us laugh with some funny face or noise or something new he has learnt.  He's a very happy, smiley laid back little fella and never misses the opportunity to grin it up (especially when I'm dancing to his fave ABC songs CD), so I really must get my A into G and take some more pics.  I do have some that I will post up for you, but they are from when he was 6 weeks old and he is 12.5 now, so yeah.  There are a couple of more recent ones with friends/rellies but they aren't the best.

The way winter has been dragging out is starting to piss me right off, coz I'm just sick to death of rain and want to get outside and garden and walk and swim and enjoy a wine whilst watching the sunsets and lay on the lawn and play with the dog and all those things that it feels like a millenium since I've been able to do.  It is near on impossible to distinguish between my weeds and the Karri forest at the minute, so itching to get stuck into that.  Xmas day for the fam is at our place this year, so I want to get the joint all schmicko before that.

Ok, I need to have a shower and fold some washing and put squirt to sleep and all that stuff, so enjoy the pics and I promise I will try to update again soon!

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HOORAYYYYY!! Happy Birfday Kristyyy!! Welcome to the 27 club :) Hope you have a fantabulous day (even if the weather is shittypoo).

Apologetics for the big sahara desert that is my journal...I am currently stuck in Perth at Ben's mums so given that I don't have any housework to do, I have a minute to update :) We came up on Sat for my gf Amanda's cocktail party do for her bday and we're staying till Wed, as there are a couple of technology roadshows on up here that Ben wished to attend. Consequently, he has gone out and about with the car this morning seeing suppliers and picking up/dropping off shit and I am therefore housebound with Brayden given that it is pissing rain and we can't get out for a walk. It was beauuutiful yesterday - typical. Anyhoo Manda's bday was fun...it was great to catch up with everyone again and indulge in a few drinkypoo's..her sis went to town with the cocktail recipe book and blender. I have since realised how much we get ripped freakin off in pubs for cocktails, as she followed each ingredient and measurement to the tee and hers were wayyyyyy stronger than the watery tasteless shite we get dished up to us at 11 bux a pop.

It is good to be here tho, been so long since we were up in the big smoke. We were talking about it yesterday and we can't even remember the last time Ben & I were both up here at the same time. I've been up a couple of times on my own before brayden was born, but methinx it was about xmas last year since Ben's been up. Enjoying all the hubub and activity and fooooddd mmmmm but yes, it does make one realise how spoilt we are in the country. Lookin foward to the sushi he's bringing me for lunch tho!

Yesterday we just spent chillin and laxin around the house (hence why I am desperate to get out now) and Ben's sis and her other half came over for lunch, then we ordered gourmet pizza's for tea. I was knackered, due to the fact we were out and Brayden was the resident pass the parcel, plus all the noise n stuff meant he didn't get an awful lot of sleep and didn't go down properly till about midnight when we got home. It was only a couple of hrs later than what me n him normally go to bed these days, but jeez it made a difference to my eyeballs. I felt like I'd been awake for 3 days yesterday. He did sleep thru till 6.30ish, but still.

Gonna go visit some friends tonight and go to a supplier function thingy at AQWA, then a bit of shopping and stuff tomorrow but not much else on the agenda.

Generally things are good...Brayden slept thru the night last tues and i got all excited, but he hasn't really done it again since. He does go about 5 hrs at a time though which is apparently pretty good for an 8 week old. He now weighs 12lb 8oz and is growing like a mushroom..already popping out of his 000 wondersuits goddamit. Gonna cost me a fortune in clothes and shoes this kid. Enjoying being a mum to the max, although I am looking forward to going back to work in 2 weeks time and enjoying some nice adult company and grown up conversations and getting busy with something other than huggies-with-pooh-bears-on-them. Would love to post some more pics as we do have the camera here, but I forgot the computer cord so yeh, will have to wait till I get home now.

My son has once again shat his bum and is grizzling, so I must sign off. Will try and update more soon. Many, many spanx and RBT's to lozza for the beautiful prezzie we received on Friday - it is just awesome! One can tell you have a niece & nephew - such cute yet practical stuff!! So stoked at the thoughfulness you have put in and the moolah you have spent and feeling like crawling into a hole now for not ever getting around to posting your oh-so-boring bday card over...I bloody lose track of the days so fast at the mo. Anyhoo, promise I will write a proper snail mail letter and sent some piccies for your fridge and some spesh things very soon!

ciao all
xx

Hi all, haven't updated for a while because there really isn't much to report.  My life at the moment basically consists of me running a household in between whenever my beloved offspring decides to sleep/eat/shit/all of the above.  Really not overly exciting :)

Also been trying to squeeze in some work wherever I can as our books are wayyyy behind at the moment...managed to do some last week and thought I was going great guns until I got to the reconciliation for June and discovered Ben had been mucking around with a heap of figures prior to doing our last BAS.  PFFT.  So now I have to wait for him to fix it before I can continue.  Never let a man near the accounts I say.

Ben has gone fishing today so I'm banking on some yummy fresh fish and salad for tea, as I really can't be arsed organising anything else.  Nor have I been to the shops in what feels like a frikkin millenium, but that's a whole other story. 

In other news, I logged onto my bank account today to purchase a u-beaut electric steam steriliser, and discovered a nice little deposit of $3,079.  Big cheers for Mr Howard and his baby bonus payment *yay*.  Considering I only lodged the form last Tuesday and it wouldn't have arrived in Bunbury till Wednesday, to say I was shocked to find the money there so soon would be a slight understatement.  I've put most of it into our St George high interest savings account so we can buy Brayden some nice things for Christmas (Ben's already eyeing off those 'oh my god thats such a BOY thing' pages in the Toys'r'Us catalogues), plus we are having Christmas Day at our house this year, so it will help us make it an awes day food wise etc for all the family :)

Anyhoo, I now must stop procrastinating and get on with lodging my latest tax return, not that I'm likely to get a single cent back *sigh*. 

Here are some more pics of my bootiful boy, one with his great aunty Catherine (ben's aunty) who came to visit with Ben's mum last weekend, and a couple of him splishin and splashin around in his bath (aka my laundry sink), which he just loves to bits. Considering Ben and his Dad were both swimmers at a state level, I must wonder if we have a real little water baby in our midst.  He also has canoes for feet already (the relief of not having them stuck in my ribcage is indescribable), so watch out Thorpie I say! 

( Enjoy )