(Charles isn’t nearly so accommodating)
Archive for April, 2009
Where’s your belly?
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009Toys
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009This afternoon I took Gus to place in town where you can pay a few dollars and let your kid run around. A whole room of toys and I wondered what he’d choose to play with.
He started with the cars. This big school bus and a big red plastic fire engine.
Then he discovered the shopping cart that he could push and walk with. Ok, so I showed him that one. And that was good for awhile until he got sick of running into stuff all the time.
There was a cool tunnel filled with balls (at least before Gus got to them)
A guitar that he spent quite a bit of time trading off with another kid throughout the couple of hours.
Oh, and these huge stuffed animals -a lion, a tiger and a big black gorilla that he kept touching then running away.
There was a big pile of castles with little figures that a bunch of boys were playing with. And behind that pile, buried under some costumes was this yellow construction truck thing that he somehow knew was there.
And finally, my feminist heart glowed with pride when he found the pile of dolls and gave them a good chunk of his time as well.
(even though he bit their heads and smashed them together)
He can reach the fruit bowl now
Monday, April 27th, 2009
Last two weeks of July
Sunday, April 26th, 2009That’s when we’ll be in Sydney for Charles’ Mum’s surprise party (that she now knows all about).
Not sure where we’re staying yet but we’re very excited to see everyone.
(This was at the pub late this afternoon -starting to get warm here. Just as Sydney gets cold.)
Horsepower
Saturday, April 25th, 2009Gus saw his first parade today. We met Christina in the The Dalles this morning and found ourselves a curb to sit and watch the horses and marching bands and the various people riding in cars -all throwing candy at us. Gus was a huge magnet for fistfuls of tootsie rolls, peppermint stripes and tiny lolly pops. I remember as a kid waiting the entire parade for one or two pieces to happen to fall near by. But now that Gus doesn’t eat sugar and I’ve just started my new healthy eating kick… it pours.
Speaking of pouring, did you know that horses only pee once or twice a day? So it’s rare to spot one doing so, right? Well, I’m hoping it’s some kind of good luck thing because as we sat there we watched not one, not two but three horses empty their entire bladders onto the road -about 20-30 liters (or 5 -10 gallons). It was pretty damn impressive, I must say.
(note the ground below the horses behind us)
Then we headed to Portland to visit with Cousins Lena & Kyle and their cuties Lila and Lainy.
Gus went into a kind of toy frenzy and got particularly obsessed with this car. Kept opening and shutting the door and basically stopped being very social. I wouldn’t have been surprised to look over at some point to see him polishing the wheels down with one of his spit up rags. Plastic wrench sticking out of his back pocket.
And then we ended the day with a lovely dinner out with Roberts/Heberds at a fairly family friendly local pasta place. Maybe it was the excitement of the horses/ cousins/ car, but Gus was being really loud as he ate. Charles thinks he’s that loud all of the time and we just don’t usually care. But in the middle of the restaurant, it was in danger of disrupting other people around us. Yikes. Time to start teaching him about ‘inside voices’ before we take that 15 hour flight to Sydney (where he’ll be wide awake at 3am -wanting to chat to everyone around him and go for big exploratory walks all around the plane). Lord help us.