Q and A time

Take a look at this photo. And tell me:

A) which boy is asleep, and

B) which boy should be asleep.

The answer to A is not the same as the answer to B :-) They do look very peaceful, don't they!

Bus wash

This week Brodie and I joined his childcare friends and carers on a bus wash excursion. It was well worth making the effort to go and I think that Acton buses give a great service to the kids. The bus picked us up at 10 am and it was one of those extended buses, with the swivelling middle bit (can’t explain it), which the children loved. Brodie was not feeling well (he has had an upper respiratory infection) and sat on my knee the whole trip. He did enjoy it, but just not in his exuberant way!

We went to the Belconnen bus interchange, where the children waved at passengers waiting for buses. Man, there are a lot of disinterested and grumpy people out there – hardly anyone waved. So if you see a busload of 2-4 year olds waving madly at you, please wave back! Then we went to the bus depot, where we saw some buses being fixed and went through the bus wash. The bus wash was Brodies favourite part of the trip. Both the driver and the conductor were great with the kids, really involved, funny and started the children singing the wheels on the bus etc.

As I mentioned, Brodie is sick. Not too bad, and he went to childcare on Friday. He is pretty ordinary this weekend, snotty and whingy. I am supposed to be taking him to an undercoverwear party. I am thinking that it is going to be an interesting party, because nothing we do is right for Brodie today!

Bathtime fun

Having fun in the bath

And I wonder where he gets his facial expressions from

Warm weather

It was a beautiful day yesterday, so we decided to spend a fair bit of time away from the house. Firstly we went to Black Mountain Peninsula, to check out the spot we are having his birthday party. There were some black swans on the lake, and boy can they be very alpha male and aggressive.

We also went to Black Mountain tower (not at the same place, despite the name). We have to spot this tower every. single. time. that we go out in the car. We thought that Brodie would love it and we were not wrong. The tower tip is 1000 m above see level and there is a viewing platform 870 m above sea level. He was so excited about going up the tower and by the view. We can't wait to take him again. I don't think the attached video shows nearly how excited he was. The tower is on top of Black Mountain and it was known formerly as Telstra Tower (I wonder, did telstra stopping its funding support???). Black Mountain peninsula is the peninsula on Lake Burley Griffen closest to black mountain.

Some photos and a video of us

And despite the photo of him with me (how grumpy does he look!!!), we all had a fab time :-)

The last post

was some photos of Brodie I wanted to show Mum of him in his new jumper. We are very fortunate that my Aunt Margaret (actual, she isn't strictly my aunt, but we are related!) has knitted Brodie some jumpers last year and this year. She is a fabulous knitter and keeps my boy warm in winter. This is her latest creation and is a joint effort between her and Nanna! Thank you!!

For Mum

Slow week

It has been cold this week, which has meant lots of inside activities. We went to the indoor playcentre with K and S and some others on Wednesday. Brodie has always been too hesitant to come down the big slide himself and used to come down either sitting on my lap or holding my hand. Well no more! My little determined man has found a way to come down the big slide on his own, at the same time as being able to control how fast he comes down. He comes down on his tummy, feet first, so that the can put his hands on the slide to slow himself down. If he went down the slide once, he went down 20 times. Very cute!

Well, not much else has happened this week. Brodie is grumpy with me for some reason and is a real Pappa's boy at the moment. He sobbed earlier today when Roland went out to pick something up from the shops. Of course, this could all change next week :-) We had kept Brodie up on Friday night, waiting for the opening ceremony of the Olympics. We knew it started at 8.08 pm, but for some stupid reason, forgot that this meant 8.08 pm China time, not 8.08 pm Oz time. So we had a very tired boy, who missed the opening anyhow.