Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Australia Day 2005
Here I am in the dying minutes of another Australia Day!
It was a fairly laid back day. We spent the morning unpacking more boxes and rearranging the garage/rumpus so that Dee could fit in more shoes for the Zaparties she's coordinating for Lisa's shoe company, Zapatito. So the rear of our garage is now a shoe emporium/warehouse.
An F111 did a fly-by of our house just after midday. It was amazing! It was on it's side so I could see the top of the plane and it must of only been about 300m above the ground.
Paradise sponsored the Brisbane Australia Day parade so this year it was the Paradise Foods Australia Day Parade :-) This promised to be a very cool event with 500 Paradise employees signed up to march in the parade in special t-shirts followed by a BBQ before the evening fire works. Wow!
Unfortunately, it was a rainy day and we watched wave after wave of showers pass through the city and then our place. After much deliberation we decided that it was going to be too difficult taking Max in the rain so we aborted the mission. Shortly after this, the parade was actually cancelled due to a severe storm that was supposed to be coming. Bad news for the 300 odd Paradise employees getting onto buses at the factory!
The call was made to go on with the BBQ...try telling 300 people their BBQ's cancelled!
We then decided that we'd brave the weather and join everyone for a little while. We drove into South bank, scored a street park and then walked 10mins to the BBQ! We had a great time and Max was whisked away by Wendy (Dad's PA and mother to us all!) to be shown to all and sundry! He loved it and came back with lipstick on his cheek!
We then drove home in time to watch the fireworks! I love Brisbane :-)
I know you've been wondering what the t-shirts looked like...so here's a picture!
It was a fairly laid back day. We spent the morning unpacking more boxes and rearranging the garage/rumpus so that Dee could fit in more shoes for the Zaparties she's coordinating for Lisa's shoe company, Zapatito. So the rear of our garage is now a shoe emporium/warehouse.
An F111 did a fly-by of our house just after midday. It was amazing! It was on it's side so I could see the top of the plane and it must of only been about 300m above the ground.
Paradise sponsored the Brisbane Australia Day parade so this year it was the Paradise Foods Australia Day Parade :-) This promised to be a very cool event with 500 Paradise employees signed up to march in the parade in special t-shirts followed by a BBQ before the evening fire works. Wow!
Unfortunately, it was a rainy day and we watched wave after wave of showers pass through the city and then our place. After much deliberation we decided that it was going to be too difficult taking Max in the rain so we aborted the mission. Shortly after this, the parade was actually cancelled due to a severe storm that was supposed to be coming. Bad news for the 300 odd Paradise employees getting onto buses at the factory!
The call was made to go on with the BBQ...try telling 300 people their BBQ's cancelled!
We then decided that we'd brave the weather and join everyone for a little while. We drove into South bank, scored a street park and then walked 10mins to the BBQ! We had a great time and Max was whisked away by Wendy (Dad's PA and mother to us all!) to be shown to all and sundry! He loved it and came back with lipstick on his cheek!
We then drove home in time to watch the fireworks! I love Brisbane :-)
I know you've been wondering what the t-shirts looked like...so here's a picture!
Monday, January 17, 2005
Blinded by the light...
So Dee and I are here listening to the endless replays of songs on Brisbane's Triple M. I swear they have a 2hr playlist that they replay it 12 times in a day!
Anyway, one of our old favourites came on and we were, as ever, perplexed by the words that come after "Blinded by the light...". Yes, that's Manfred Mann's version of Bruce Springsteen's Blinded by the Light.
So, we turned to today's encyclopedia Google...
Well, what a crack up this page was. I'm sure you'll enjoy other people's attempts to complete the chorus too :-D
Anyway, one of our old favourites came on and we were, as ever, perplexed by the words that come after "Blinded by the light...". Yes, that's Manfred Mann's version of Bruce Springsteen's Blinded by the Light.
So, we turned to today's encyclopedia Google...
Well, what a crack up this page was. I'm sure you'll enjoy other people's attempts to complete the chorus too :-D
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Max Mania Update
Our little Man is growing up too fast :-(
Last Tuesday night (4/1/05) he managed to roll over for the first time from his back to his front. It was quite funny because Dee was trying to put him to sleep and she called me in to see that he had wriggled around 90 degrees and onto his side in the cot. We watched him for a while and eventually he dropped over onto his tummy and popped up on his arms with the biggest smile! What a time to start his gymnastics.
The next day he rolled over several times and I managed to video his last oned when I got home from work. It's so cute seeing his little smile when he manages to roll over and onto his tummy.
On Sunday we gave him a cup of water to try. He was straining forward with his lips out to get the cup in his mouth! He even managed to swallow some of the water but he needed a change afterwards.
Last night we also gave hims his first solids (Farex Baby Rice mixed with expressed milk). What a step! At this stage he's mainly keen to get the spoon in his mouth to chew on but he's swallowing a little bit of it.
I certainly have mixed feelings as he seems to be growing up quickly now and I'm probably worried about how much more hassle solid food is when compared to breast milk (not factoring in the fact that Dee has to sit there to do it).
More news and photos soon...
Last Tuesday night (4/1/05) he managed to roll over for the first time from his back to his front. It was quite funny because Dee was trying to put him to sleep and she called me in to see that he had wriggled around 90 degrees and onto his side in the cot. We watched him for a while and eventually he dropped over onto his tummy and popped up on his arms with the biggest smile! What a time to start his gymnastics.
The next day he rolled over several times and I managed to video his last oned when I got home from work. It's so cute seeing his little smile when he manages to roll over and onto his tummy.
On Sunday we gave him a cup of water to try. He was straining forward with his lips out to get the cup in his mouth! He even managed to swallow some of the water but he needed a change afterwards.
Last night we also gave hims his first solids (Farex Baby Rice mixed with expressed milk). What a step! At this stage he's mainly keen to get the spoon in his mouth to chew on but he's swallowing a little bit of it.
I certainly have mixed feelings as he seems to be growing up quickly now and I'm probably worried about how much more hassle solid food is when compared to breast milk (not factoring in the fact that Dee has to sit there to do it).
More news and photos soon...
