365 Photos - Feb 6

Daddy headed off early with his groomsmen to get suits for the wedding, so Zeke and I decided to head out with Grandma to visit her cousin. Naturally, when needing to leave at 1.30, Zeke decides his usual 11.30am nap time is redundant and doesn't sleep until 12.40. Although he was obviously a bit tired, he was on his absolutely best behaviour! Such a good boy :)

After that visit, it was home for a quick nappy change, re-pack his back and go to Kayleb's for dinner! (It's our Saturday night routine now!) The boys had a lovely time playing, although neither of them ate much dinner, some law of toddler logic I guess. After dinner we put them both in the bath, and boy was it a splashy one! They were having heaps of fun, and Cathryn and I were laughing too hard to stop them. Zeke got a bit overwhelmed by it in the end, but it was great fun! I was so drenched I had to change my clothes. Thank goodness for never cleaning my car out, I wouldn't have had nothing to change into otherwise!

Ended up getting home MUCH too late, but Zeke as usual was just fantastic, so well behaved, even when he was fall-down exhausted - he really is awesome!

Saturday 6th Febraury 2010



We were trying to get a group shot of the kids, Zeke, Kayleb and Lillia... this is about the best we got. Pinning two toddlers down for a photo is hard work!

365 Photos - Feb 5

Mini Maestros, our music class was back! Zeke naturally (after dancing and clapping half the morning) immediately turned shy on arrival, and wanted to sit on my lap the whole session. He'll warm up to it again soon no doubt!

I can't be sure, because there was a lot of background noise at the time, but I think Zeke told me "up up" while holding his hands out to be picked up at music! If he did, that's 3 new words in a week (Lillia "Lala" Done/There "Deh!" and up...) maybe this is the start of a word explosion for Zeke? Should do a new post counting his words while I'm at it!

Back home for a nap and then a play. I have a feeling we got up to something else, but I'm pretty tired, so cannot for the life of me remember what. No, wait, Ryan worked all evening and Zeke was cranky without his Daddy.

Friday 5th February 2010



No time to take pics at music, we're too busy dancing and having fun! We were playing with blocks later in the day, and Zeke was so proud of himself for stacking all those blocks on his own! Not the best picture ever, but I have about 3 seconds from the completion of the tower to him demolishing it in one flying blow, if I want to get a photo!

365 Photos - Feb 4

Another warm day - more tantrums, but HEAPS of sleep. He slept 11 hours at night, and 3.5 hours in the day. He was ready for bed by 1/4 to 8, but was up again an hour later, back in bed by 9.30 after a bath. Getting more and more sure teeth are coming!

He was really really trying to tell me a new word in the bath too, it was either 'there' 'that' or 'done' the context he was using it in suits all of them. It's sort of "Deh" (as opposed to Da or Duh) and he says it quite sharply, when he's giving you something, but because it is something he wants "that," what you've asked for "there" or something he's finished "done" I can't be certain 100% what it means.

Thursday 4th February 2010



Zeke was very active and had a great wrestling session on the couch with Ryan. I was playing with the multi-shots option on the camera, and caught this. That blurry thing is a pillow Zeke was about to whack Ryan with. Not the best pic, but it amuses me all the same!

365 Photos - Feb 3

Wednesday... I really shouldn't get so many days behind I forget things! Zeke slept for 13 solid hours! I was very surprised to wake up at almost 11.30 am and find he was still asleep! We were both obviously in good moods though. We needed the rest... turns out he was just storing energy for an epic quantity of tantrums. Fun fun.

I really think he's teething though, the whining is far more like teething and we're into more clear runny nose again... but it's so hard to tell with the weather being so warm whether it's actually teeth or the terrible twos, or just being hot & bothered.

Zeke also turned 20 months old today... holy crap, only 4 more months till I'm the mother of a 2-year-old!

Wednesday 3rd February 2010



Zeke is developing some kind of love-affair with his hat. Probably because he knows he gets to go outside (and this hat actually fits comfortably, he has a big head, so wears hats for 3yos!) Anyway, he loved it so much, he wouldn't even take it off for dinner, which he did with his usual messy flair!

365 Photos - Feb 2

Today was a quiet day, it was too warm to want to be active, and we still haven't quite caught up with the broken sleep from Monday. I spent a lot of today emailling people and organising lists for the wedding... guess that means tomorrow I need to clean up!

Granny and Aunty Kyla dropped in for a bit, and Zeke was thrilled to see them. He was less thrilled though when he woke up from his nap and Daddy had gone out! He was really upset about it, he went and looked for him in every room of the house, and then when that failed brought me his hat and shoes to go find him outside! Fortuantely of course Daddy did come home in the end, but not before Zeke had had a good scream to express his sadness.

Still not sure if the heat is causing the screaming tantrums, or if it's the teeth, or just the age. It's been more intense the last few warmer days, but he's showing some signs of teething, but then he's almost 2! Guess I'll have to wait and see :)

Tuesday 2nd February 2010



Zeke's been really focused on his fine motor skills, holding and drinking from regular cups, putting lids back on pens, coins into a piggy bank and the like. Now he practises any of those any chance he gets - in this case drinking from a cup in the bath!

365 Photos - Feb 1

Welcome to February... how did a whole month go by so fast? To celebrate a new month Zeke decided it was necessary to have another ER visit. (We had the splinter on his foot visit on NYE.)

This time he was waiting with Ryan for the bath to run (it was well past bedtime, but he was hot & sticky so we decided a bath was in order) when the cat jumped into the room and startled him. The poor little guy being so tired lost his balance and crashed down HARD... right onto the metal track for the shower door. He screamed the place down, I was at the other end of the house and heard it. Well there was no blood, and he seemed fine, but wouldn't stop shivering (it wasn't a seizure... just like we'd dumped iced water on him) so we decided to take him to the ER just to be safe.

Miraculously we walked into a completely empty ER... there was literally NO ONE in the waiting room! Thank goodness for that, and we were there for less than an hour from going in to going home! The doctor said that he was fine, (he wasn't shivering anymore) but the shivering was likely from shock after the fall, and we could go home and give him panadol if he seemed to have a headache. Better safe than sorry, but an adventure we could have done without!

We had a crappy night sleep after that, combined with him being now well over tired, still warm and sweaty and a bit shaken up by it all.

He was up early as well, but fortunately this meant he had a nice long nap before we went to PLAYGROUP! He and Kayleb were both so excited about this, they started singing and yelling when they saw where we were walking to! They had the best time, although Zeke started back on the 'Mr Sensitive' behaviour, screaming as soon as something upset him. Not sure if that was still being tired from the night before, or molars, his nose has started running and he's becoming really dribbly again, so those 2-yo molars may be on their way.

Then we had dinner at Granny's house... so a very big day indeed!

Monday 1st February 2010



There were so many awesome pictures from playgroup that I wanted to use as my photo of the day, but then when I uploaded them, I came across this one I took early in the morning before we'd gone out. Zeke put the beanie on all by himself, and was zooming around the house, looking very pleased. I think it's time we started a dress up box for him!

365 Photos - Jan 31

The last day of January already - how can it be a whole month is gone? I'm still not even convinced its 2010 yet! I saw Kyla's diary today and it has a big 10 on the front... took me forever to work out why... it has a 20 on the back cover too, that only confused me more, I was busy going "ten-twenty...WTF?" Then I realised when you lay the diary flat with both covers visible it would say 2010... duh!

We had lunch with Grandave today, and Pete & Kat around for dinner. Zeke spent most of the time showing off his new peek-a-boo skills. He was cranky and hard to put to bed this evening, which led to a whole other adventure, but that's a story for Monday's post seeing as it happened after midnight!

Sunday 31st January 2010



Just a cuddle with Daddy to try and convince Zeke that it's bedtime. Lovely to have a photo of Ryan where he's not flipping me off or pulling some ridiculous face too!