Sunday, May 01, 2005
Last night was my first night in my cot! I sleep in it inside a grobag which is like a sleeping bag with head and arm holes at the top and I wear an outfit underneath depending on how cool the night will be. It was emotionally hard for Mum to stop putting me into the basinette but we worked together to overcome the issues! The grobag is for age 6-18 months and is very long for me at the moment so Mum sewed up the armholes a bit so they are not so loose.
I overheard Mum telling someone a funny story about my cot, I thought it was new but Mum was saying that one night last year (when I was still inside her tummy) she and Dad came home late one evening and saw the cot on our neighbour Sandra's verge with other stuff ready for our street verge rubbish collection. It is common practice to take things from people's verges if they are left out for the collection and since Mum and Dad didn't want to miss out on the cot, they carried it along the street to our house under the cover of darkness. In the last few weeks before I was born, Dad sanded the old silver sparkly paint off the cot and Mum painted it fresh white. When Mum and Dad told Sandra that they had acquired her cot she was delighted that it is going to be well used! So that is the history of my new cot!
Today was Auntie Kate's birthday and we met Nanna and Poppa, Auntie Kate, Uncle Alan and Claudia at the Matilda Baby foreshore for lunch at the kiosk there. Afterwards we walked along to the playground for Claudia to explore the equipment there and Mum fed me.
Mum thought that we would never need all the bibs we were given as presents, but I am dribbling lots now and some days we get through half the bib collection! Sometimes I blow bubbles in my dribble, this always seems to make Mum smile and encourage me so she must like it!
I overheard Mum telling someone a funny story about my cot, I thought it was new but Mum was saying that one night last year (when I was still inside her tummy) she and Dad came home late one evening and saw the cot on our neighbour Sandra's verge with other stuff ready for our street verge rubbish collection. It is common practice to take things from people's verges if they are left out for the collection and since Mum and Dad didn't want to miss out on the cot, they carried it along the street to our house under the cover of darkness. In the last few weeks before I was born, Dad sanded the old silver sparkly paint off the cot and Mum painted it fresh white. When Mum and Dad told Sandra that they had acquired her cot she was delighted that it is going to be well used! So that is the history of my new cot!
Today was Auntie Kate's birthday and we met Nanna and Poppa, Auntie Kate, Uncle Alan and Claudia at the Matilda Baby foreshore for lunch at the kiosk there. Afterwards we walked along to the playground for Claudia to explore the equipment there and Mum fed me.
Mum thought that we would never need all the bibs we were given as presents, but I am dribbling lots now and some days we get through half the bib collection! Sometimes I blow bubbles in my dribble, this always seems to make Mum smile and encourage me so she must like it!
# posted by Connor McDonald @ 3:20 PM 
