Sunday, October 23, 2005
This morning after my breastfeed in the big bed, Mum dressed me and then put me on the floor to play. I let her know with an indignant cry that this was not the usual routine, this was breakfast time! Luckily Mum assured me that she hadn’t forgotten and I could see her packing all the ingredients into a bag and soon we were on our way to the O’Briens for breakfast. I had my usual weetbix with formula milk and a little prune juice, followed by mashed banana, pieces of banana and some mashed banana on toast too. I couldn’t believe that in the time I ate my breakfast, I saw Mum and Dad put away mango, pineapple and strawberries, croissants, muffins, bacon and eggs, fruit toast and coffee! They shouldn’t be calling me the piggy in the middle next time I’m in the big bed! Michelle was pleased to see me wearing some of the clothes which she had passed on from Josh and Samuel.
We went home for my morning sleep and afterwards I ate my lunch in my highchair on the front porch because it was such a beautiful sunny day. I could hear birds singing while I ate my lunch and a cheeky magpie even walked up the steps to see if we had anything to feed him but since we had no meat he soon lost interest and walked back down. After lunch, we drove to Auntie Kate and Uncle Alan’s house. I had a great time on Claudia’s swing in their garden and Dad pushed me for ages until they decided I might have had enough sun on one side of my face. Then I sat on a mat with Mum and played with Claudia’s baby gym, she played with it too and we played nicely together.
We went home for my afternoon nap and then headed out again for a welcome home BBQ for twins Mackenzie and Georgia and their parents Dennis and Sheila, they have been away in Scotland for 3 months. The BBQ was at the Hamilton’s house at City Beach and I had a great time there trying to get a swig from my Dad’s beer bottle and generally looking around at everyone and all the kids running around to see what was going on. Mum had a challenge on her hands to get me to eat my dinner with all the distractions, but I did OK in the end. Everyone thought my rocking in the high chair was funny, they thought I was dancing to the music but that is just what I do in between mouthfuls!
We went home for my morning sleep and afterwards I ate my lunch in my highchair on the front porch because it was such a beautiful sunny day. I could hear birds singing while I ate my lunch and a cheeky magpie even walked up the steps to see if we had anything to feed him but since we had no meat he soon lost interest and walked back down. After lunch, we drove to Auntie Kate and Uncle Alan’s house. I had a great time on Claudia’s swing in their garden and Dad pushed me for ages until they decided I might have had enough sun on one side of my face. Then I sat on a mat with Mum and played with Claudia’s baby gym, she played with it too and we played nicely together.
We went home for my afternoon nap and then headed out again for a welcome home BBQ for twins Mackenzie and Georgia and their parents Dennis and Sheila, they have been away in Scotland for 3 months. The BBQ was at the Hamilton’s house at City Beach and I had a great time there trying to get a swig from my Dad’s beer bottle and generally looking around at everyone and all the kids running around to see what was going on. Mum had a challenge on her hands to get me to eat my dinner with all the distractions, but I did OK in the end. Everyone thought my rocking in the high chair was funny, they thought I was dancing to the music but that is just what I do in between mouthfuls!
# posted by Connor McDonald @ 11:42 AM 
