Both our kids are prone to talk in their sleep, especially when they are too hot (eg, Ash likes to randomly wear flanelette pyjamas on warm nights ). Not just barely coherent mumblings, but full on random sentences. If you’ve seen the scene in Finding Nemo where Dory is talking in her sleep (”Sea [...]
The kids and I have wanted to play with stop motion animation for ages. Since we got a video camera for ourselves for Christmas we can finally do it.
We grabbed a free stop motion application called SingleFramer (OSX only). It pretty much has no features, just onion skinning which allows you to see what your [...]
When I was about 19 I think, there was a huntsman on the ceiling in my room. I used to be ok with that. One night I walked into my room in the dark, and a moth that was flying around hit me in the head. I did not know it was [...]
I remember thinking last Thursday evening that Thursdays just seem to be a problem. I leave work early to teach Catechists at church, then we rush home to get ready for Ash to go to Cubs, Mon has rehearsal so it’s already a busy night, and so many one off events seem to be [...]
Ashleigh’s Cub Pack, along with the scout troop, went through the Croydon Le Pine Funeral Home tonight for something new. It was a really good thing for them, they were really engaged by the guy presenting. He ran through a slide show first, detailing a lot of what they do and what goes [...]
With Christmas money from Granny, we all went to the Melbourne Zoo. You can see our photos and entertaining commentary.
Highlight of my Christmas : Me and Connor got an AFX slot car set. 11.3 metres of track, 3.8m x 2.1m when it’s laid out in the rough shape of the Bathurst race track. That is truly huge, it takes up half of our playroom which is a converted double garage. We [...]
Ash kinda got shafted, cos when she was in that post toddler stage where kids still have the most amazing minds, but have developed the language to express the crazy things that they think, I had nowhere to keep her stories but in my naturally unreliable, and at the time furthermore hampered by lifestyle, memory. [...]
Connor likes us to sit with him for a while before he goes to sleep. One day he was licking his finger then wiping it on me. I said “Hey stop that, I don’t want your spit on me”
“Oh sorry” he says, and lies quietly for a minute or two. “If you do want some [...]
That was a long break between posts. For your enjoyment, let me describe Christmas day.
Got up, did the present thing. Lowlight : Once again I got a pair of size Large boxer shorts, in spite of repeated insistence that my butt is not that big and they aren’t very comfortable. I know some people got [...]