That she has to wear sunglasses....or something like that. Daisy seriously peaked in her gorgeousness this weekend. Last week she hit 21 months and she became so sweet you just want to pick her up and squeeze her till some of that loveliness spills out onto yourself. DIVINE. She was happy, and … [Read more...]

I'm not sure if you have ever seen a cartoon by Leunig - an Australian cartoonist - called the 3am whale? Probably not...here it is if you can read it...It's about waking in the middle of the night and worrying. I think that everything seems worse at 3am. It's quiet and still, and dark, and you know … [Read more...]

I think that we are going to have to get Daisy into a bed. A toddler bed, or full size single, or something other than her cot. You see our little girl has grown up. Over the past few weeks she has just plain grown up. She talks more, plays by herself more, seems happier with her own company now. … [Read more...]

Rob was in charge of dressing Daise Sunday morning. I am no control freak in the dressing up of my kid - I am happy for him to do it whenever and whatever she has in her drawers, I just seem to be the one that usually does it. Plus it always seems that he manages to find the one piece of ugly, too … [Read more...]

The last few days with been filled with all of the above for us. It has been busy, busy, busy and mostly good, good, good.SicknessWe all came down last week with a cold. I started to get that niggling coldy, fluey feeling on Wednesday arvo at work and went down a snake from there. Rob had been … [Read more...]

These 6 books are on HIGH rotation at our place at the moment (in fact they have been for months now). They feature things that we have done lately (trips on planes and to the beach) as well as some old favourites. 4 of them were mine when I was little...I loved being able to get them out and share … [Read more...]

Yesterday we were given the day off work. It was Melbourne Cup Day (for those that don't know what that is... it is a horse race...in Melbourne...that the whole country gets excited about. They even have a public holiday in Victoria for it) and as I work in a 'blokey' financial industry where they … [Read more...]

We were off (again!) on Friday for another weekend away. We have been so lucky the past few months to have as many little trips away as we have. In fact all year it seems every few weeks we have managed to get out of town for a weekend or longer. I love being able to stay with friends and family and … [Read more...]

Friday morning we got the chance to spend some time with Daisy's friend (and sort of) cousin Maddie. It was Maddie's 2nd birthday! Daise had a great morning watching Mads open her presents, play hide and seek, play with balloons, and take turns wearing the fairy outfit that we gave Mads as a … [Read more...]

Yesterday we went and saw our latest friend into the world Angus who is the 2nd child to close friends of ours. I was excited to meet the little (actually big 9 pounds 5 ounces) boy and Daise was pretty impressed to be heading to the hospital.I was overwhelmed when we got there. It was the same … [Read more...]

Another favourite around our place this week has been hide and seek (aka Hydy hydy)...with Humpty of course! I am actually having quite a bit of fun with it...if only she would get the concept that she has to wait until I have had a chance to actually hide...she just follows me around when it's my … [Read more...]

It seems I have passed a magical milestone this week. I didn't know that when your first born was 20 months, 3 weeks that you better start thinking about no 2! This week I think I have probably had at least 8 (!) different people ask me "you better get cracking on no. 2"! I mean today I was seeing … [Read more...]

Daisy has been doing well with her self directed toilet training. She has managed to get a few poos in and even a wee (half way through my client meeting last week I had to ask to be excused and take Daisy to the toilet and wait and wait and wait until we got that wee). I am sure that when they … [Read more...]

I've said it before and I will say it again...time is going way too fast for me at the moment. Another week been and gone and I have barely had time to catch my breath!My sister and her husband headed down to Melbourne for the weekend for his 40th and so my Mum had her 3 kids for the weekend. Friday … [Read more...]

I work Mon - Wed every week but yesterday I had to go and see a client for work on my day off. She knew that I had Daisy with me but wanted me to come to her house to help her with he computer. We always conduct client meetings in the office but I was happy to help her out and head over there.As you … [Read more...]

We are so used to being able to get what we want, when we want. If I want to see what people are up to I can check facebook - day or night - and see what my friends are feeling/thinking/doing there and then. If I want news I can get on the net. If I want to be entertained I can put on the TV and … [Read more...]

Whoosh! Did you see that? It was ANOTHER weekend flying past. I can't believe how fast the weeks are going at the moment. Um, it's November next week!? Anyway, enough of that here is what we did over the weekend.Saturday morning we headed over to some friends place for brunch. There were 3 couples, … [Read more...]

Daise and I (and Rob) had to say goodbye yesterday to her godmother and our good friend Amelia. She is heading back to the UK to live for good with her lovely husband Tom. She has been such a lovely friend to have and I have so enjoyed her time popping in to play with Daise, eat and drink and laugh … [Read more...]

How lucky are we? I will answer that for you. SO lucky. So VERY VERY lucky to have been to the most BEAUTIFUL place I have ever been to in the whole world. And we got to stay there for 5 whole days!! Let me tell you all about it.Saturday we headed off early. As in 4.50am start early. I was nervous … [Read more...]

Nigh on 2 posts ago I was talking about how good it was to be able to effectively communicate with Daisy and how I felt we were in a new chapter of this parenthood thing...yeah ok...um.We are heading off for 5 days tomorrow which involves a 2 hour flight getting there. I thought I better get Daise … [Read more...]