tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338278942012-01-25T00:40:07.548+10:00A Blog dedicated to the first child of Kirsty and John, Matilda, formerly nicknamed "Bun Rabbit".StarbuckJrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14443866951941341391noreply@blogger.comBlogger1481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33827894.post-43927681827572593082011-07-23T18:16:00.000+10:002011-07-23T18:16:59.177+10:00

 Cars for sale on the Champs Elysees I didn't realise Laduree was on the Champs Elysee; I was so glad to spot it! We crossed the road to check it out, what a divine selection of deliciousness! In the Laduree display window. This pic is now blown up and in our kitchen. :) Inside Laduree. There are no signs, but apparently you aren't meant to take photos. A special room at the rear of Laduree.  

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 M thought the trees outside Invalides looked like ice creams, so she had to eat some!  We bought a two day bus tour ticket - such warm weather was perfect, although a bit toasty, for sitting on top of the bus.  Looking suitably solemn at St Eustach church; we stumbled across it near Les Halles on our way to Rue Montorgueil Three years later, back at Shakespeare & Co. This time Mama was able to

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 Tuckered out in Singapore. Our flight to LHR left at 11:59pm Singapore time, which is 1:59am Brisbane time. Tilda didn't sleep on the way to SIN, so she flaked out while we waited for the boarding call. Trying to get comfy on board, before takeoff. Very hard to have a tired wee person and keep them happy while *not* reclining their seat. Eventually got her comfy enough, and reclined the seat as

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At Matilda's last ophthalmologist appointment, we were told she needs to start wearing glasses. Doctor had been telling us that she'd need glasses for at least a year, so we weren't surprised. We went to a local optometry store to get her prescription filled. There was a decent range of kiddy, durable glasses frames. Luckily, Matilda doesn't know who Hannah Montana is, but there were no Princess

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So, my friend Jane posted on her blog about her gorgeous daughter, Lucy. Well, one of her gorgeous daughters! Lucy has an eye condition, different to Matilda's, but similar. I've tried to post my comment on her blog post about five times - different browsers, on my iToy and my laptop, to no avail. :( So here's my comment: Oh, I know this. How I know it. From the moment Prof Fred at church said

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We got back from our US holiday on 16th May. In those whole two weeks, including over 35 hours on planes, M had only two memorable toileting accidents - while at Little League, and then at the airport on the last night before catching our flight. Since we got home, however, it's been a WHOLE different story. It got much colder at home over those two weeks, and we're definitely into Winter weather

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Lunch with a few good friends.

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M gets to meet Alice and her friends feom wonderland. Including the Queen of Hearts. No photo though. M didn't want to get within an axe handles reach.

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As you can see. Empty logs either side of ours. So no queuing for the second ride. M was keen. No idea why based on the look of her face.

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M finds the stage again. Surfs up themed breakfast had our girl re-enacting her Hawaiian performance from a year ago.

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After a sleep deprived shaky start our girl has got into the Disneyland swing of things. She has started reaching for her autograph book before we do. Her tally so far. Mickey, Minnie, Daisy, Pluto, and Stitch. We haven't even got into the park yet.

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Life is hard for thd young traveller.

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From the "kids say the darndest things" annals. Like last post, every other kid has probably said something like this. But this should be preserved in cyber-posterity. ;)Lying down this afternoon for a nap, I realised that in 5 weeks we'd be in Dallas. I told M. Instead of talking about San Francisco and the boys or anything else, M said:My going to do a poo on the toilet in Dallas and wear Dora

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Tonight before I got in the shower, M looked up at me and asked "Mama, why you got big ones?" "Big ones what M?""And why I don't got big ones? Why my got little ones?""Well, because I've grown up and had a baby."End of conversation. No more why?s. I bet most other parents have had this or a similar conversation. I've been wondering when this would be a topic of conversation, especially after M

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It was Matilda's god-sister K's 5th birthday this week, and we went to her birthday party yesterday (which thanks to the CRAZY warm weather for August ended up being a pool party! August! It isn't even Spring yet!!). Our oven's thermostat is broken, and I just had to contribute some kind of sweet offering to the array of delights available, so chocolate crackles were the ideal treat! Chocolate

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Sitting up like a big girl, wearing a fash Wiggles blanket.

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Thursday morning after the lu'au dawned, and it seemed a bit wet and drizzly, so we decided to hit Ala Moana shopping center and buy some clothes. It'd been 4 years since John's last chance to buy some Gap Khakis (well, in US dollars, instead of Euros or Pounds!), and his work wardrobe was starting to look a tad shabby. We knew we'd need a stroller, so decided to rent one. To Matilda's delight,

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After much anguish on my part (would we survive the hour-long bus ride each way? would we cough up the $USD40-60 for a "child's" ticket our have Matilda sit on our laps and eat from our plates?), we decided to go to the Paradise Cove lu'au. We had a great time (and it being not-too-busy, Matilda had her own seat at dinner, and they even gave her some food - fried chicken and rice!). John and

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Each night at our hotel, the Embassy Suites in Waikiki, there was a Manager's Reception in the Grand Lanai, with some snacks, free drinkie-poos (which for Matilda was a Sprite, Juice, water and ice concoction of our making), and Hawai'ian entertainment, featuring singers and hula dancers. Matilda called the hula dancers "dancing ladies". As we'd exit the lift on our way to the reception, Matilda

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We arrived in Honolulu just over a week ago, after a more stressful trip than we anticipated - we left Brisbane over 2 hours late thanks to a mechanical failure, so what was meant to be a leisurely commute to the International airport turned into a bolt, including running through the Domestic airport and getting priority passes to get through Immigration and Customs!The International flight was

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Water height line on our fence. Yes, the post box needed to be cleaned out!Creek mud on the front path (all pics from Thurs 21st)Downstairs main room. That's the upright freezer on its SIDE. Assorted mess in downstairs big room. Water went entirely over the piano. My CM shelving. Water went to part way up the second-top shelf here (the last shelf with albums)Looking from the scrapbooking room

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After being attacked by a bar of soap in the bath. Matilda recommends relaxing on the couch with an elmo dvd, an improvised ice pack and breakfast cereal.

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Playing in the park. M later tried to use this hole as an exit when we had to go. As a hint of how high up it is, I'm standing, and not crouching very much!We took a bunny home with us for the five-hour drive back to Brissie on Easter Monday. The ears lasted maybe til we were out of the township.A bit of face painting done by the fairy at Tin Can Bay markets. And I think the marks all around M's

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Happy Birthday Aunty Kate! For Christmas, Janet, Kate, and Darren gave the rest of the family a weekend away together - what fun! So in early Feb, we went to Peppers Resort at Salt (yes, those are not made up locations/names) for a wonderful weekend together. As it happened, that was the weekend of Kate's birthday, so were able to spend the whole weekend celebrating together! Aunty Janet picked

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So since about January, I've been working on a Storybook for Matilda from our trip to Europe last year. I finished it on Thursday night, uploaded it to Creative Memories in Sydney, and it arrived on Monday! I was so surprised at how quickly it arrived. Yay! Here are some of the pages I did: Last page

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(Yes, I realise it's almost the end of Feb!!) New Year's day. It isn't just Mama's shoes that get stolen,but also Daddy's joggers. And what else to accompany joggers but fairy wings? And, did you notice, super large shoes also provide a handy butt seat. ;) Having too much fun running around GG's unit. Always guaranteed that Matilda will clean the fly screens naturally while we're there (by

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Matilda's favourite fruit at the moment is:Strawb-ba-berriesShe's been saying strawberries this way for some time, at least since December. It's ridiculouly cute.Some other favourite fruits right now:BlueberriesAppleOrange (stealing Daddy's)Mango (stealing Daddy's)Watermelon (stealing Daddy's)Cherries - pits and allFruit-flavoured yoghurt ;)GrapesVeges seem to work better when disguised still ...

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After a very full day celebrating Aunty Kate's birthday. BR hits the wall during dinner. Pass the salt. Pass the sleeping 2 yr old.

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For Matilda's first birthday, back in Oct '07, I hoped that she wouldn't get only "girly" presents. Sure, I'll dress her in pink 70% of the time, and even though I lurrrved my Barbies, I figured my girl also needs some non-girly things to play with. So when her Unca Cam asked what he could get her, I said a Tonka Truck. He really didn't want to, he wanted to get her a dress or something more

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NYE is Grandad's birthday, so after knocking off work and daycare early (yes, M's Mum and Dad worked through Christmas and New Year, except for the public holidays, pretty much), we went to visit him and say:Happy Birthday!We had a lovely afternoon tea, M took some photos with Aunty Janet's digi camera, and we got to see all the family.We then went to B&L's house for their annual NYE party, and

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We had planned a rather busy day, but one in which Matilda would see all of her grandparents (all 6 of 'em) in the one day. We'd already seen Gramps and Gran Lylia on the night of the 23rd for Matilda to get her pressie (too big to bring to Christmas lunch @ Great Uncle Scott's).Here she is at her very cool new table and chairs, just her own beight for drawing (on herself), painting (on herself),

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This was meant to be a Christmas letter post, to atone for not sending out any Christmas cards. But it's now 11:30 pm on Christmas Eve, and we'd better get to bed before Santa arrives and finds us awake! ;) According to Norad, he's in PNG at the moment, so mustn't be much longer before arriving on the East Coast of Aus.This awesome pic was taken by Madeleine. We're still choosing which ones to

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We've always thought Matilda would be a talker, and as her vocab continues to develop, we're seeing plenty of signs of her future potential (and suspect ear plugs will be our future).Last weekend, M could not stop saying:Santa coming, picking up Tilda.She said it over and over, again and again. She told everyone at daycare on Monday how Santa was coming to pick her up, and by Tuesday it morphed

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Last Thursday morning, JR and I were rudely awoken by what we thought was some stoopid person's car alarm going off. By the third sounding of the alarm, I stomped out of bed, went to the curtains to *see* the stoopid car and stoopid person with my very own 4am eyes. I looked out into our street, and noticed flashing. And water in the middle of the street. Gee, the drain's not dealing well with

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I can't be bothered fighting with blogger to get these pics in chronological order. Just wanted to get some up so you can see the damage we've had (and we are very blessed and thankful that unlike so many other Brisbane residents, we have a roof, we can still live in our house, our only power outage was due to JR turning off the mains). Will post more later. Water mark on bricks in garage.CM

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At the beginning of the month, I finally rang my uncle (M's great-uncle Scott) and asked about picking up the bed he put aside for M when she was about two months old, when my cousin S was graduating to a bigger bed. Uncle Scott brought the bed over one Sunday afternoon, and he and JR quickly pulled the cot apart and assembled the bed. I had thought we should be good parents and try to transition

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The other night, we were the Worst Parents in The World, and didn't have a meal ready for Matilda by 6pm. Because when all adults get home at around 5:45, having M's dinner ready by 6 means it's bolognaise or risotto or something else made in bulk and parts of it frozen (note to self: perhaps that's why M doesn't respond well to fresh veges or meats??). JR fairly quickly put together some fried

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Thanks for the cool colouring-in pens, Lou, Ash, and J. I really like them. Mumma and Dadda have been telling me how I need to be green, but it seems they meant I should be recycling my works of art, not wanting every light bulb turned on at night, and ensuring I don't drive in my SUV every time I want a hit of milk. I thought they meant it literally. But seriously, the pens are yummy. I just

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OK, so we're not the first parents in the world with a two year old. We're not even the first parents to have a two year old, who is independent, feisty, refuses to admit to having pookie nappies, only wants to feed herself unless she's too tired, and will NOT let you take bandaids off (and for some reason on M they are really sticky. I wish regular bandaids stuck to me like that, I wouldn't need

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Matilda's favourite question at the moment is:You doing, Mummy?(Mummy can be replaced with Daddy, MorMor, GG ... and so on)This means "What are you doing, Mummy?" and can be uttered at any time of day or night. Driving in to work and day care on Thursday, I was asked at least twice "You doing, Mummy?". "Driving, Matilda" was the response on both occasions."You doing, Mummy?" has the potential for

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We saw M's opthamologist last week for her six-month checkup. She's now almost 1 year post-op.The Doctor was really happy with her eyes! Yay! She was somewhat more focussed during the tests (following squeaky toys, looking at grey pieces of carboard with white outlines on them) this time around, though still did not want to be patched. We managed to get the patch on, and she continued with her

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Some more pics from the birthday weekend ...Daddy and Grandad providing swingpower!Wearing the super-cool outfit Auntie Kate brought back from Vanuatu (grass skirt and lovely dress, shame the "bra" to go with the skirt was too small ...or not?)Emma's turn for a swing (in English and German, as Emma speaks both to M!)The trampoline birthday cake Mummy made.Yummy! I've got my piece of cake ...

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Who says a swing needs to be installed to be fun.

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Today is Matilda's last day of Being One. She started the day by not waking up until the very late hour of 6:45am. After dressing and deciding on the second pair of shoes for the day, Matilda accompanied her parents in the car to daycare.Car is a popular word. But Bus is much more exciting.M doesn't really understand that tomorrow is her birthday. I'm sure next year will be VERY different. We

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This hat was given to all conference attendess, in lieu (I guess?) of the more usual conference T-Shirt. Every girl needs a hot pink cowboy hat. Particularly to wear with your Rome Zoo T-Shirt.In the middle of August, Daddy and Matilda had another special bonding weekend while Mummy went to Creative Memories' consultant conference, Showcase, at the Gold Coast. The weekend had a pink (with a bit

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One-handed babycino drinking at Cafe Mama - Matilda and Mummy took Daddy out for breakfast Matilda's first breakfast with Daddy on Father's Day Wearing Aunty Jen or Aunty Petie's shoes Dad, Lylia, all the kids, and the first grandchild (exciting news: grandbaby number two expected by March 2009 - Dan and Susan are expecting!) Happy Father's Day Grampsy, hope you like these pickled onions we

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Before Grandad read Matilda stories on Wednesday night (post below), she found a mouth organ and Grandma's Mickey ears ... Aunty Lexie would be so proud of how quickly Matilda recognises Mickey! And says either Mickey or "O Toodles". ;)

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Grandad's turn to read me stories tonight. We read Monty Mouse looks for adventure and then Blinky Bill.

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I knew I'd grab you with that title. ;)Matilda now happily pats her pants/nappy and pronounces "poo poo" multiple times a day. So we take off her nappy, and pop her on the potty/loo. She sits there for three seconds, then pulls off some toilet paper and happily throws it in the bowl. Now, in a post like this, believe me, I'm not leaving out any gory details ... that's ALL she does. Then she

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Saying Bye Bye in Brisbane airport before Mumma's trip to the USMy very own crackberry ;) I can text as good as the next 21 month old!At brekky this morning, with the Minnie Mouse sunnies we bought in Venice (as you do).Could this picture represent a happier, more content only child, only grandchild any more??

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I just found some pics from Singapore on the little camera:Tuckered out in China TownNot Matilda's feet .. her Mum ... seeing the "Doctor Fish"Think I might need this life ring in the spa Daddy ...Actually, I think I can work it around my middle, with some helpSoooo jet lagged. M fell asleep during dinner.

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It was my grampsy's birthday yesterday. Had t wait until tday to see him. We all got tgether at Sonomas in Sandgate. Scored morning tea, plus a babycino.Happy Birthday Grampsy.

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I went out to dinner tonight with my Grampsy, Gran Lyla, Aunty Peta, Unca Rambo, Aunty Jen, and Aunty Lauren. Ate some mezze. Then i learned some wicked moves from te resident bellydancer. I showed her a few of my moves to. Keep a look out at Efes One for the bellydancer doing my patented stomping pirouette.

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Breaking News ....I visited daycare today (M was asleep) to check how M is going. Ai, the group leader this week as Suzanne is away, told me that M did a wee on the toilet! She's noticed one of the other toddlers doing wees on the loo, and today wanted to do one, too. Ai was changing her nappy, when M pointed to the toilet. Ai asked her if she wanted to go on the toilet, M nodded, and when she

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We visited Mummy's former host family, the Reinekes in Essen. Dieter and Inge picked us up from the Duesseldorf airport, and took us home to their house for dinner - yummy chicken soup followed by potato salad and sausage. A bit of wine (for the adults) from Lichti winemaker to wash it down with. We spent most of the weekend enjoying the luckily BEAUTIFUL weather in the backyard, and Matilda

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Checking out the pigeons in St Mark's Square, VeniceDancing with Samuel from the US in St Mark's SquareAbout to head off on a walking tour around a little bit of Venice ...Mmmm ... Gelato from Captain Cono!Finally, a bonus for travelling with a baby in a stroller, we were able to use lifts a fair bit through the Vatican Museum, and this one had seats! How posh!Matilda's room in the Aurealia

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Matilda enjoyed sitting in the little seat in the bath at the Amiens NovotelWe found a fun playground near the Amiens Cathedral, where Matilda and Daddy played while Mummy washed our clothes in the laundromat.Yummy food bribery on the way to Paris after our days in the Somme. Matilda was very much OVER driving in the car by this stage.

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Apparently its tme to leave England and Europe. I've had a fabulous time. Anymore Salt amd Vinegar chips?

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We said goodbye today to Rome and headed to Florence. Had an absolutely marvellous time staying at our apartment. Even if Daddy was a total space cadet with a head cold. Paula from reception made us really welcome. She thought I was wonderful and told me how she was going to eat me up. Mummy and Daddy kept telling me that was a metaphor. But I fooled her and escaped on her day off. See you

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The great tour continues as Matilda fights her way across the alps (should that be flies?). Now the eternal city's playgrounds and slippery slides lie before her. Veni Vini Vici?

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Matilda meeting Paddington BearChasing pigeons in Kensington GardensBuckled up and ready to go! Chasing pigeons in ParisPlayground below that famous landmark in Paris Researching where to go next while Mummy and Daddy drink coffee Asleep at the Dawn Service Wide awake before the Dawn ServicePayground near our hotel in Paris, the Bastille angel is in the background With Mummy on the Eiffel Tower

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Its 4am, its freezing, I should be in bed. But Daddy wanted to come to the first ANZAC day dawn service at the Australian National Memorial, outside of Villers Bretonneux, France. I'm sure I'll understand the significance of this as I grow up. Until then there are a lot of warm legs to hide behind and pretty flowers.

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Sorry for the lack of photos, M's parents are yet to be awake enough after dinner at night to download any photos from the camera or phone ...We're in Paris after our early morning on Monday (4:30am wake up call). Terminal 5 was .... OK ... security a bit crazy (told in one spot to take off shoes/belts, told in another not to), my hand luggage was completely checked due to the baby food in it,

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Matilda and her parents survived the flights to London. First was Brisbane to Singapore, leaving at about 2pm, arriving 8pm Singapore time. As we anticipated, M did not have her usual afternoon sleep before the flight, and spent her time charming the others in Qantas club, and trying to steal other people's tecnology items (laptops, mobile phones ...). JR scored a middle four seats to himself on

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Our little world traveller just finished meeting her parent's good friends Emma and Damien. We all spent a delightful afternoon eating (kudos to Emma the Chef), catching up and intercepting M from her more creative investigations. Can't wait till next time. Apologies to Damien for the action shot. Spontaneous blogging works this way apparently.

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Do we think someone is getting accustomed to the Jet Set life? Looking down from QANTAS Club at all the othertravellers?

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It's just after 7:30am and the house is quiet. There are three full suitcases in the lounge room, a pile of hand luggage on the dining table, toiletry bags waiting for last minute items in the bathrooms, Vita Brits ready on the kitchen bench fore brekky, and a list of things to do before we leave for the airport at around 10-10:15. And JR and Matilda are fast asleep.Yesterday was Grandma

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On the 17th April, we all leave on our first big big big family adventure - a trip to Europe. For some reason, we thought that the three of us travelling in an enclosed tube for 24 hours, then moving around from hotel to hotel every three days, and visting countries where we can barely say "I'll have a pint please, oh, and two wines for the adults" would be FUN. I am yet to meet a parent who

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Today we find Matilda mastering the tradition of an Easter Egg Hunt. There is nothing like a bit of chocolate for an incentive. Stand by for the sugar rush. Three, Two, One...How well do you know your celebrity gossip? Talk celebrity smackdowns here.

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Matilda's vocab is still forming, but there's already a couple of phrases she can say. I'm not sure if she thinks of them as a single word, but the most frequent phrases we hear are:up and downandall day long....We have finally realised they are from M's favourite song - The Wheels on the Bus. The book at daycare has each verse ending with "all day long", which M's Mummy and Daddy only realised

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Check the time. Our party girl was up rocking late again at her cool Aunt's Birthday party. Compliments to the pastry chef. The cake is excellent. So is not having to lift a finger to feed yourself.

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Playing in MorMor's drawersBabycino at home ;)Happy Birthday Grandad!@ BF Daniel's birthday party - M lurrvved the trampoline. The rapport between D and M is astouding for kids so young!Helping Grandma with the cleaning ...Playing in the parkAfter taking a few falls in the park, loves to go down the slippery slide alone!Grandad repaired and repainted Mummy's play cot for M. Dolly apparently likes

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OK, I've been really slack lately, and I know people are looking for new pics of M. I should have some up by the end of the week. I've finally got a new laptop (Dell XPS M1330 for the geeks), and am busily using up the 350GB HD with photos ... :) I've uploaded all the pics from the little camera in Memory Manager (CM digi photo sorting software), and the pics from the big camera are uploading in

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Posing , a few weeks after the operationGetting ready for a swim at Anne & Jason's ... first time in a pool in about 10 months!Swimming with MummyAt the Cathedral for their children's service, Christmas Eve afternoonUnwrapping pressies Christmas Eve with Gramps and Gran LyliaGetting tired ... Christmas EveChristmas Morning ... unwrapping pressies with Mummyand with Daddy!Woohoo! First wheels!Look

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Matilda is now mostly walking everywhere. Now and then when faced with an obstruction, she'll either walk over it or resort to crawling. She can go faster if she holds one of our hands, and still enjoys doing that. Except when we're trying to steer her in a direction she doesn't want to follow ...Yesterday, we noticed that we could tell M was getting tired, not by her eye rubbing, but by the

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If I tried, I'm sure I could look cuter! Trucks and books, what more could a girl want?Wattle plant ... in New Orleans!! Helping Mummy unpack

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It's been two weeks since Matilda's surgery, and she's doing very well. We see the surgeon for a follow-up appointment tomorrow, and we're hoping that will mean ... no more eye drops. It's taken almost two weeks, but Matilda's just realised in the last day or so that if she thrashes around while we're trying to hold her down, the eye drops end up on her face or Daddy's fingers, rather than in her

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Matilda had her three muscle bilateral squint surgery this morning at the Queensland Eye Hospital. It went quite well, we managed with the no foods after 3am (woke her up and gave her a bottle at 2:30am, lucky Mummy!), and the no water/juice after 7am. M was getting grizzly at home, probably due to the breakfast routine being interrupted, but picked up when we arrived at the hospital (it does day

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Matilda is now one ... and I've almost started her first album! :PWe had a little party, with just some family and godparents. Not all of the people who love and care for Matilda, but we thought we'd keep this year relatively quiet, given M doesn't yet understand what a birthday means. She had a great time, and a big sleep right in the middle, which rather mucked up our plans for the cake - it

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Eating cake, on the actual birthdayBirthday cakeEating Birthday cake ..Mum let me feed myself Avocado again ..Happy Father's DAy - and I choose Daddy over chocolate!See, I can crawl up on my knees now!Trying icing ... M acted as though we were trying to feed her poisonOpening pressies, how spoilt

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We saw the opthamologist yesterday. Matilda's surgery will be on Weds Nov 14. Three of the four horizontal muscles around her eyes will be cut and either loosened or tightened. This will hopefully get her closer to using both eyes together, rather than independently. It's day surgery, and if there are no complications, she should be back at daycare, etc, the following Monday.We also discovered

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Playing with the Mardi Gras beadsYum, avocado face maskBut if I can reach it, I can touch it, right??

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Some of Matilda's favourite toys at the moment boggle our minds ... the bottom part of a plastic chinese takeaway container can keep M entertained longer than a Lamaze toy ... an empty tissue box (well, she'd love a full tissue box even more, but that's just TOO messy) ... the recycling crate with old paper and plastic bottles in it ...John had a pretty good first Fathers day - my hopes of

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I won't be able to post any photos of M for a bit. :(I need a new PC. This one has less than 2GB of disk space left. Yes, I know you don't have to get a new PC when the disk space runs out, but this on is getting a bit old and clunky. More RAM and other such things are needed, as well as more disk space (to cope with the 10megapixel camera which produces photos that are at least 3MB each).

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Just thought I'd let everyone know, I now have my very own Creative Memories website - mycmsite.com.au/ktaylor. You can browse the full range of Creative Memories products, check out my upcoming events, and even order products. So cool.On an album related note, I will be FINALLY starting M's album soon. We have so many photos, got to start putting them somewhere other than the hard drive and

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M's starting to feel better now. We're well under way with the Amoxil doses, and have scaled back the Panadol. If necessary, there's a bit of Dimetapp around bedtime, to help dry up the nose (otherwise if she wakes during the night, you can find her headl lying in a damp spot, poor thing - must be horrid when you can't blow your nose). No waking up last night through the night ... we'll see how

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Matilda has started waving Bye Bye in the past couple of days. I first saw her do it when she was strapped onto my front in the Baby Bjorn as we were leaving daycare. How cute!Also at daycare this week, the "big" kids (I'm talking the 2 year olds) were so happy to see M. They exclaimed "It's Baby Matilda!" when she arrived, and one day one little girl came up and gave M a hug, and then everyone

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I'll try not to get too TMI. ;)M has dropped down from three BFs to two a day (and two bottles of formula during the day time). We dropped the "dreamfeed" in the last week or so, as we'd worked it forwards from 11pm to 8:30pm, and we figured M would cope without it. She really wasn't drinking much at all, and barely waking up for it. So she still has a BF after waking up in the morning and before

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Matilda is getting very good at drinking her water, all of a sudden. I hadn't been able to figure out why on her daily "report cards" from daycare, there would be comments that M had drunk water. One day I popped in at unch time, as M had also been rather picky about her lunch eating ... I noticed that the carers put her cup on the highchair table while she's eating. So I've been doing that since

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We saw the opthamologist on Thursday. M's right eye is getting better, but we still need to keep patching. The doctor is keen to operate as soon as M is using her eyes evenly to see. If we have to, we're going to put something like Elastoplast over M's patch to try to keep it on. Hopefully as her right eye gets stronger (again), M will protest less about the patch ... fingers crossed!

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As I picked M up from childcare today, her carer stopped me to tell me what another beautiful day it was with M, and how much she loved playing outside and even pulled herself up to STANDING on the frame outside. Goodness me! It's still unfortunate timing, what with winter weather and our polished wood floors ... but I guess M'll figure out a way around it, or get lots of bumps!M is also babbling

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Cuddles with Unca CamHappy Birthday Gramps!Got Milk?Helping with the recycling ...Rugged up on a cold Sat to go to the Farmer's Markets

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Matilda is trying to stand. So far, our polished wood floors are getting the best of her. John is also joking that we're spraying oil on the floor to make sure she keeps crawling ... ;)There's not a great deal of furniture for M to pull herself up onto. She tries to pull up on the recylcing crate, and also the footrest for the highchair, but everything else so far is just a bit high, particularly

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Matilda now has five teeth, very much proof that they don't "erupt" in pairs all the time! Two on the top and three on the bottom. I'm still feeding her first thing in the morning and before bed at night (bottles during the day), but that might change if she starts biting hard. :( Generally I'm able to discourage her from biting pretty quickly, and I remind her to be gentle with Mummy.We had

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