The tooooth, the tooooth...*

*This will not seem very funny to you if you haven't seen the movie Dune - yes, the entertainingly crappy one from 30 years ago based on the book.


 Mr. Baby finally has a tooth!  I have been trying to get a photo of it but it's just too darn small to get on camera at this stage.  But it's there!  All those months and months of teething has finally produced a tooth.  'Bout bloody time.. It was a tough week for him (and hence, me) last week as he also had a bad cold (which he shared not just with his parents but also his grandparents).  There was so much mucus and drool I actually gagged at one point.  With all the various poop explosions and being pee'ed on since he was born, I was surprised that it was snot that finally got me to gag in the end.  But, dear lord, there was just so much of it and I was using one of those bulb syringes to get it out and the sound along with the visual was too much for me.  Mr. Baby wasn't too happy either - I can only imagine how uncomfortable it is to have a big rubber tube stuck up your nose and sucking everything out.  Poor thing.  He was pretty uncomfortable for the entire week and the cold is still lingering a bit along with a cough.

The cold has resulted in two weeks of him taking terrible daytime naps. He's never been a good daytime sleeper but the last two weeks have been shocking.  Some days he was barely sleeping 40 mins during the entire day. He started to improve a bit this week. I am now training him to go to sleep without being rocked and cuddled.  I love cuddling him and rocking him to sleep but he's getting much too big now and needs to learn to go to sleep on his own. Trouble is, I have to keep laying him down as he is like a jack-in-the-box who pops up as soon as you lay him down.  This caused some frustrated tears the first day (his, not mine!) but the last couple of days he has decided it is a VERY fun game.  My back is killing me from lifting up 11kgs of baby repeatedly whilst bending from my waist.  A big no, no for lifting!  Anyways, he giggles and laughs the whole time so today after 10 mins of this I gave up, said 'goodnight' and just left him standing there in his cot.  He talked and giggled some more but went to sleep after about 15 mins.  And my back is thanking me! He is still only napping for an hour and a half total for the day but short of knocking him out, I can't think of how to get him to sleep longer. If we have another kid I REALLY hope it sleeps both at night AND during the day. 

I don't have much else to report to be honest.  I know I have been quiet on the wires the two weeks but that has mostly been due to the fact that our computer is dying. Or at least its graphics card is.  So we have a new one on its way to us but it won't get here until my in-laws do in about 10 days.  We are all super excited to see my husband's parents. They are visiting us for 12 days, which is not very long, so we will make the most of it.  I am nervous that they may not like Australia that much.  It's important to me that they do - that they don't question why the heck their son would move all the way to the other side of the world!  I want them to see the country as my husband and I do - as "worth it".  So I hope things go smoothly for them.  They arrive at 6am Monday week and unfortunately my husband has to be in Melbourne that very morning for a work breakfast so I will have to get Mr. Baby up and sorted out and over to the airport to pick them up.  As long as we don't hit bad traffic on the way back it will probably all be ok, but if immigration, etc takes a long time and we it ends up being peak hour  then we might be sitting in the car for quite a while.  I will be bringing plenty of snacks for the little guy just in case.  He is just like his mummy and gets pretty crabby when he's hungry.

Ok, the screen is getting black spots on it so I have to sign off before it crashes yet again. But in a week or so we'll have the new computer and I will hopefully get back into the swing of writing regularly!

Easter Break

So you may have noticed that I did not post anything for the past couple of weeks.  It's because we took a short holiday down to the coast, at Mornington Peninsula in Victoria!  It's about an hour or so south of Melbourne so it was a real trek for us (we drove) but Mr. Baby did really well with all that car time.  We headed down on the Thursday before Easter and stayed in Melbourne. The next day we had an Easter lunch with my Grandma and my aunt before heading down to Mornington on Friday afternoon. 

We stayed at St Andrews Beach right on the coast in a great house, which we shared with our very good friends who live in Melbourne, Matt and Zoe. They have a daughter who is only two weeks younger than Mr. Baby (we will call her Little Miss Baby) and you may recall that we caught up with them when they visited Sydney at the end of October right after we had arrived in Australia. Or you may not...

Anyways, we had a fabulous week and it was so great to catch up with our friends.  The bubba's got on so well and enjoyed playing with each other. Although I must admit that their 'playing' seemed to consist of one baby picking up a toy, the other one coming over and taking it, then either of them picking up another toy and the other one grabbing it, etc etc.  Luckily, neither of them are at the stage of "Mine!" so they didn't care when the other one took the toy out of their hands but it was funny to watch!

Here are some piccies from the trip....

We started our trip down with a breakfast of champions - Burger King! Although Mr. Baby had fruit, we still put the silly crown on him :)

This is St Andrews Beach - just beautiful!!

We took a walk down to the beach most days. Sometimes in the stroller...

Sometimes using this hiking backpack thing our friends had.

Although Mr. Baby clearly enjoyed the backpack, it KILLED my back! We will not be getting one.

We went out for lunch at a cafe in Sorrento nearby. It was all a bit much for the little guy.

We had a drink at the Portsea Pub at sunset (can you believe I took all these pics with just my iphone?!)

A couple of days we just stayed at the house relaxing with the bubs.

We had lunch on our last full day at a lovely winery - T'Gallant. Yep, weird name. Pretty place though!

And we left on the big trek back to Sydney before dawn, which allowed us to see a beautiful sunrise while driving along the Hume Hwy.

Thankfully, Mr. Baby did a lot of napping in the car for these long trips!