Tantalising Toddlers

Yesterday I headed off to coffeegroup. It was a gorgeous bright blue day, with sunshine to boot. It was great catching up with everyone - apart from Rachel but I will see her on Sunday at her Baby Sprinkle. I whisked a slightly squeaking K boy where he snuggled down into his cot to dream of chocolate milk. He really is an angel baby. He adores reading and sits on the floor flicking through books several times a day. He will bustle over, face bright with anticipation and a book clutched in his wee paws, as he begs for "storytime". I rearranged the spare room with my son's lemming tendencies in mind. A mattress has been placed on the floor for his jumping pleasure with pillows placed upon it. I hope it meets with his approval.

Kieran has emphatically outgrown his stroller and just looks faintly ridiculous in it with his legs sticking out any which way. I must take a picture cos he looks ridiculous :)
Today I dragged him out for a walk. I got a run instead. He pretty much sprinted around the circle as well as the adjacent circle, coming to a halt next to the house of a woman who goes to our coffee group. She and her husband are moving to the USA and are selling off all their stuff. Ahem, so I now own: 2 chairs, 4 storage bins, a potty, a lightweight stroller cos our is knackered and a sesame street ride on interactive toy for K - and all for $115!!! Awesome or what.
Tomorrow we are heading off to a midwinter christmas dinner over at Bryony and Helen's - it should be awesome!! A Turducken has been prepared as has 6kg of pork... we are taking along bacon wrapped kumara and 2 Frangelico trifles - mmmmmm, yummy!! I have half a bottle of Frangelico and was worried it might not be enough. Luckily there is another bottle stashed in the cupboard-under-the-stairs....phew!! We will have to head over a little early to set up the portacot and set Kieran upon Rabbit and the corgi's. He will be THRILLED!!

Perturbed and Peeved

Those who read my facebook status will know that I spent much of yesterday calling down maledictions upon the male sex. After the cause of my angst exited the house Kieran and I did some major tidying up. Couches were pulled out and swept behind, toys were retrieved, bookcases were packed up and rearranged, the cupboard-under-the-stairs was opened, reviewed and repacked, the cat scratch post was moved and the kitchen got a revamp. Throughout all of the 3.5 hours it took to do this K was bustling about after me - playing with the broom, chasing petrified (geological sense haha) snacks across the floor, crawling into packing boxes I was placing books into, hurling toys into said box, now also containing a Siamese - and basically driving me to distraction and laughter.I received some respite when I popped Howl's moving castle dvd on - it is actually a great adaptation of Dianne Wynne Jones as long as you understand that just the concept remains the saem (oh, the names too, I guess hehe). Chris arrived home and gazed around the scene of much activity and labour and said... I see you moved the cat's scratching post. Aaaaarrrrgh!
This morning I had the weekly meeting for the vitamin D trial. K woke up at 7:58am which was awesome!! Alas it also meant a flurry of showering and dressing. And NO breakfast for Chris or I. No lunch for Chris either. Man, that bracelet is a pain in the ass. The velcro catches on all my sleeves and makes it very difficult to have the face of the thingy uncovered. Oh well. only 7 more weeks! While I was there I realised that the team work with Uncle Dan :P Such a small world isn't it!! Kieran and I walked back from the meeting at 8:40. The sky was grey - yet rain free, the weather cool and we were breakfast free. It was an enjoyable walk, well, for me anyway. K rode in the stroller, rugged up to the nth degree and sucking on his bottle - hopefully not a foretelling of his future as a wheelchair bound boozer :) We headed into the library cos we reached it just as the doors opened at 9 and K loved it. Again, he ran up and down the aisles, "helped" the librarians shelve books, leapt upon the big white bear etc. Eventually my lust for breakfast could not be contained, and I whisked him off home.
I popped him down for his nap and spent the HOUR in which he repeatedly thrust his clenched fists to the ceiling while grunting ferociously, or rolled about the cot clicking his tongue by reading books for my Massey assignment. Three down, 12 to go! I also popped a video of K leaping from the Futon up on Facebook, as well as some pics. There was a wail of horror from Chris last night as K leapt from the futon..onto the carpeted floor..... foolish morsel!
Oh, and our Daphne is blooming. I will take a pic on pop it up for tomorrows blog picture.

Beef Burglar

We had a lovely dinner planned last night. We were going to finish up the remains of the roast beef from Sunday. Fate, or the Siamese, had other ideas!! Yes Bandit truly lived up to his name - dragging the chunk of beef off the counter and stashing it is a safe place - the base of the cat scratch post.
On a brighter note K ate almost half of a scrambled egg- and wolfed the rest down when I hid it in some mashed potato... he LOVES mashed potato!! It has been a struggle getting him to eat eggs - but I persevere! After out dinner of Noodle Box's finest I did a load of laundry, dishes and prepped a shepherds pie, and also did a dinky baby one for our baby :) I am sure he will love it - after all, it has mashed potato in it :P

And now for the book list!! These are just a few from this month's reading mark you!
Awesome Books:
The Magic bites series - Ilona Andrews
The enchantment emporium - Tanya Huff
Thirteenth child - Patricia C Wrede
Psychic Eye mystery series - Victoria Laurie
Choice - Edith Layton (a truly awesome Regnecy romance)
The Charm series - Candace Haven
The ultimate guide to winning Scrabble - D Hinch
Garden Spells - Sarah Allen

Didn't-bother-finishing books:
The Stepmother's diary - Fay Weldon
The secrets of happily married men
Primal heat - Sherri L King (only good if you like back door entry - bleh)

Pyjama Days

Yesterday was wet and not particularly warm - dammit! It was Chris's turn for a sleep in and I was incredibly jealous as I hauled my wretched, expectorating carcass out of bed to retrieve McShrieker from the cot at 6:30am. Once K woke up from his nap we headed out to Palmers to get a Daphne plant. We got one already potted with heaps of buds on it. It is currently in front of the front door but I will drag it out back when I have a spare moment (haha). We have a house inspection due in the next 10 days so Chris got the usual option: A- clean the house to my satisfaction or B- babywrangle. After lunch I began to scrub out the bathroom. It was damn hard work as for some reason the bathroom gets muckiest fastest. I will work on the rest of the house each afternoon while K naps. Today's target is the lounge. If you came to my house you would believe it was inhabited by a troop of unhygienic baboons with an eating disorder. It would not cross anyone's mind that I actually sweep, mop and tidy up on a regular basis - all of it undone behind me by a cracker munching toddler tornado.
Today looks gorgeous - I will take K out after he wakes up to his favourite park then the library. At the moment he ius enjoying a shower - one much needed once I pulled off his nappy and shrieked in horror at what resided inside. Reading has commenced on the assignment - but I have also been reading a few other books as well. Next post I will give you my "I loved it" and my "it blows bears" book list :P

We call him....Lemming Boy

Today I had the boy in his play room/one-day-his-bedroom/spare room and he kept trying to leap off the futon. I bore with this for a while but eventually got tired of supporting his weight in my arms as I gently lowered him to the ground. I wondered, "what would June Cleaver do?" and inspiration struck. I piled up every pillow in the place in a heap then threw my son off the futon. Don't worry - once the sprain settles down and the gash over his eye heals he'll be good as new. KIDDING! He is unhurt - if you don't count a sore tummy from too much laughing. He sprang from the futon for what seemed like ages - and was probably a good 20 minutes. Inspiration then struck the little weasel and he hustled over to the pillow pile, arranged it to his liking and raced along the carpet before flinging himself on the pillows. I fear that when he has a big boy bed we will find that he's a jumper. Dangnabbit all to heck!
As predicted I was unable to see Wolverine before it left the movies. Gutted, I am just gutted! Ice Age 3 is on and I don't hold high hopes for seeing that before it's released on DVD either! Aaah movies, I love you so much :) yet see you so rarely!

Despite a lovely sunny day yesterday I didn't make it into Henderson so K will have to go without crayons for the next little while. We are heading into Palmers to find a Daphne once K wakes up. I went to the Doctors on Thursday as I thought I was anaemic. Man it took ages! The doctor was very nice and gave me a prescription for some iron tablets, and sent me off to diagnostic medlab for blood tests. I went in and the place was empty. I handed over the form and after about 5 minutes Snarky Cow the Phlebotomist came to my cubicle. She ranted on about how I needed an appointment and the only reason they were doing it was because the place was empty (well, duh!). She finally wound down her rant and asked why I was there. I said miscarriage and watched as she attempted to remove her foot from her mouth. She was a lot more pleasant after that - but I was glad to escape with band aids on both arms :)

Closure

We headed off to the scan yesterday expecting the worst, but with that tiny spark of hope that maybe, just maybe we were wrong. We weren't wrong. The scan of my uterus was markedly different than before - for starters, no baby. We managed to get out with our dignity intact though I was crying by the time we hit the carpark. Despite the sadness I also experienced a feeling of relief that it was all over and we could mourn the baby and move on. It sounds callous but I was actually terrified that there would still be a baby after all that bleeding, because it wouldn't have stayed there... and that would have been a terrifying time.
Chris thinks that a Daphne plant would be a good one to plant in remembrance so we will hit the garden centres on the weekend.

I am also sick as a dog and feeling very put out about it. It's not fair that I am sick in addition to all this other... stuff! I might take Kieran out today - perhaps to Henderson - as I want to buy him some crayons. We got him a book to colour in yesterday which he liked but the pavement chalk I found only came in pale shades - boo.

Nothing says "I love you" like a

potato. Or at least, that is what K thinks! With acres of toys to play with he shows a marked fondness for an old egg carton, the dishwashing brush and ... a potato. So far today the potato has been carried, rolled across the floor, flung into the toy box, moved around his playhouse and flung up onto the dish draining board for me to admire.. and it's not even 9am!!

I got signed up for the vitamin D trial. I now get to wear a snazzy device on my wrist and must expose it to sunlight every day. I get rewarded with petrol vouchers which seems well worth the effort. I have been feeling dizzy and rather ill today - perhaps low iron levels. Tomorrow we have the scan to confirm that everything has progressed the way it should have. Sigh. Wish us luck.