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Hi All,

It was hot today. Very hot. Too hot for little boys who don't like hot weather.

Today I went out shopping with mum. I have graduated to the seat in my pram (rather than the bassinet). I sat up like a big boy for the whole shopping trip (except when I got sleepy and fell asleep - my head kind of lolled to the side a bit).

I am going to have another big first tomorrow but you'll have to come back to read about that.

Did I mention that it's hot?

Bye for now,

Roman

Things to share

Hi All,

I have a couple of things to share with you:

1) Mum almost dropped me on my head (on concrete). I was in the pool with dad and he passed me out of the pool to her. I didn't want to get out of the pool yet so I did a pretty impressive roll move to try and get back in. I was very slippery and wet so she did a pretty good job of hanging on to me. Her face was pretty funny when it happened.

2) I am seriously trying to crawl at the moment. I am getting my legs up under my body and pushing off. I'm obviously still missing part of the puzzle though because I'm not moving (or if I move, I go backwards - does that count??). Here's a picture of me trying to crawl:




3) Mum caught me having a private moment (what can I say?? I am a boy after all). Photo below...



4) In case that last photo offended you, here's another of me being cute:





That's all for now,
Roman

Adventures with my dad

Hi All,

Something very exciting happened yesterday. My dad looked after me for most of the day... By himself!!! Mum decided she wanted to go the sales and that she didn't want me to come with her (I'm still pretty upset about this but whatever...). So she left my milk for the day and went. I'm glad she left me though because I had SO much fun with my dad. We got to do cool things like play Wii together (he played more than me - he's very greedy).I was such a good boy for my dad. I think mum was secretly hoping that I would be a rascal so dad would think that she does such a good job with me (because I'm so trying) but we all know I'm lovely so that wasn't going to happen! I even did something for the first time so my dad could have something exciting to tell my mum - when dad gave me a bottle I held it all by myself to drink it.

Mum and dad have bought me a chair to eat my food in. I think it's going to be awfully uncomfortable for mum to try and feed me while I'm in the chair so I hope she can bend well. Here's some pictures of me in it.





That's all for now,
Roman

Christmas

To all my loyal readers,

I know that I have disappointed some of you lately with my lack of posting. I have a couple of things to say regarding this. Firstly, I'm very glad that you enjoy reading my blog so much that you get disappointed when I don't get around to posting. Secondly, give me a break. I'm only little. I can't cope with all the pressure.

That said... I've been up to visit my Grandma and Grandad for something called Christmas. It's very strange because everyone gives everyone a present but I couldn't work out who the birthday boy was because no one got to blow candles out. Very strange. I'm not complaining though because I got awesome presents!! I got some red and gold and blue wrapping paper and some ribbon!!!! Here's some pics of me enjoying (eating) my presents:

Some of the other things I got were:

-a bowl and cutlery (don't know what I'm supposed to do with them - I'd probably hurt mum if I tried to use a knife and fork to eat my food)

- bath toys (I thought baths were already as fun as they could be but these are going to make it even more fun!)

-some super soft toys (some that are like puppets, some that jingle but all that taste very good)

-some big boy clothes (in the best colour, blue)

-a puppy that talks to me (it's called a learning puppy, I'm going to call him LP).

I got to see lots of my favourite people. Here are some of them:

I also got to visit my Great Aunty Coral and Great Uncle Wes and my super duper 2nd Cousin Fiona. While visiting them I learnt that not all music is as good as Ten little indians and the alphabet song. I think I need to get mum to send them down some of my music (unless they have been naughty and someone is making them listen to that music as punishment). But I had lots of fun there and I got lots of hugs and smiles.

Lastly, my dad seems to think that I'm a play thing that he can dress up. The below photo should explain that comment.

I have lots more to tell you but we'll leave some until tomorrow!

Bye for now,

Roman

All quiet on the western front

Hi All,

I know I've been a bit quiet lately. Sorry about that.

I'll probably be a bit quiet over the next couple of days as well because we're going to my Grandma and Grandad's for Christmas.

Here's a couple of bits of information to keep you interested:

I can curl my tongue (like my dad)
I tried a tenny bit of banana today (I'm still not sure whether I liked it or not)

Have a lovely Christmas.

Roman

Very serious poo incident

Hi All,

Yes - I've had a very serious poo incident.

Mum had taken me out shopping (for dirt, of all things. I don't know why she wants to buy it - we have some in our garden). While walking around she thought my leg felt a bit wet but she couldn't really see anything because I was in the Hug-a-bub. When we got back to the car she found poo down my leg. Then she went to put me back in the car seat and found evidence to suggest that perhaps the car seat had been the scene of the crime. It was pretty much everywhere (later she said that there was more poo in the car seat than in my nappy).

She's headed out to the car now with a bucket of water and whole lot of rags (and she doesn't look happy).

Oh well, poo happens.

Bye for now,
Roman

sleep and other catastrophes

Hi All,



My dad's gone away to Canberra. I miss him.

I've decided (once again) that I don't want to sleep all night long. So after having a week or so of sleeping for 12 hours every night, I now wake up twice every night. Why I didn't go back to waking up just once instead of twice I don't know but it's working for me so I'm going to run with it.

Bye for now,
Roman

Very miserable

Hi All,

I have a cold and am very miserable. I am all congested and have a lot of snot coming out of my nose. Mum finds the snot very upsetting (not because she feels sorry for me, just because it grosses her out).

Also you might be interested to know that mum noticed that she wasn't producing as much milk as she used to (and I was getting upset because of it) so she is trying something called fenugreek which is supposed to help her make more milk. An interesting side effect of this - is that she smells like maple syrup. Seriously. I'm kind of glad that it's maple syrup smell and not something awful like rotten bananas because I have to get up close to her... a lot... But please don't try and sniff her to check for yourself because she might know that I've told you and she might get embarrassed.

Here's another picture that Aunty Leanne took:


Bye for now,
Roman

the pool

Hi All,

Here's what I wear when I go to the pool!

Bye,
Roman

Visit

Hi All,



Yesterday I went to visit Aunty Tanya and Uncle Cliff to say well done for graduating from their uni course. Mum and Dad told me that it's a really big deal to graduate from a university but I don't think it sounds that hard. I could probably do it if I wanted to (but I'm busy at the moment so I'm not going to). Anyway... Mum and Dad tried to get me to go to sleep (in the closet, mind you... something about it being the darkest spot for me!) but I wanted to hang out with everyone else. Eventually they got the message and I got to stay up with all the adults. I'm not even too grumpy today. I'm going to go swimming with my baby buddies now so I've got to go.





Bye for now,
Roman

Why?

Hi All,

Why? Why? My mum took me back to the nasty place with the ladies that stick pins in me!!! AND my Grammy came along too and didn't even stop them!!

I just can't work out why they would do this to me. OK, I did wake up at 2:30am last night but I was a bit hungry. I didn't think I deserve to be stuck with pins for that. And I do cry some of the time but not all the time so I don't think I deserve it for that either. I do poop and wee on the carpet sometimes but mum has never seemed too bothered by that either. Why? Wht would you take me to get stuck by pins? Why? Am I naughty?? Please tell me what I'm doing wrong so I can try and stop it. I really don't want to be stuck again. I had to cry a lot this afternoon (after my Grammy left - I didn't want her to see me upset) because I was so sad. I cried the worst I've cried since the first night I came home from hospital. I heard mum say that it hurt her heart (I think it hurt my leg more.)

Bye for now,

Roman

My Mum's birthday

Hi All,

Today is my mum's birthday. She turned 28. I'm 4 months old so I'm pretty sure she's twice as old as me (which is REALLY old!). Here's the card I wrote for her (you can click on it to read it if it's not clear):

My Grammy is over for a visit so I got to play with her lots today. It's good because I get bored of just seeing my mum and dad's faces.

Last night I went to church. Mum gives me my bottle during the meeting and dad said that he could hear my slurping noises from the platform (mum and I were sitting in the back row). I wonder if that means everyone else could hear them too! I don't care - they would probably just be jealous that they couldn't eat their dinner in church. I was a bit annoyed with mum because she took me out of the meeting half way through Kirsten's sermon because she thought I was being "noisy" (I was just saying "Hallelujah" and "Preach it, sister"). So now I don't know the point of the sermon - I think maybe it was that we should all buy lots of transformers toys.

That's all for now,

Roman

Another photo for you!

Photos

Hi All,

Today Aunty Leanne came over to play. We had heaps of fun and she took lots of photos of me and mum. I'm a very good model (I only wee-ed everywhere once). I've posted some of the best photos here so you can take a look (Aunty Leanne is very clever, isn't she??)

Aunty Leanne babysat me tonight. I was really good and didn't even cry for her at all. To be honest it's been a pretty long day and I was very tired so didn't have the energy to put up a fight (being beautiful takes a lot out of me, you know).

That's all from me,

Roman

today

Hi All,

Today I went to the pool with my buddies from Mother's Group. I got to wear my swimming nappies. They are blue and have pictures of Nemo on them.

I also went to the Health Nurse for my 4 month weigh in (did you know I am 4 months now??). I weigh a lot. 6.6kg. That must be like how much horses and whales weigh. It's a LOT. I'm also very tall. I'm taller than I am heavy (the graphs say so). That makes me tall and skinny. So maybe taller than a giraffe but not heavier than an elephant. I'm also strong. Like a lion. No, stronger than that. Like a hungry lion who sees a chipmunk eating breakfast and decides to steal it. Also I can roll over very well. Like a dog with fleas.

I'm tired.

Bye for now,

Roman

Crazy parents

Hi All,

Now, I love my parents very much but I am starting to have some concerns regarding their mental health. This is why... I spend a lot of time laying on the floor near the window and during this time I've learnt a lot of things. One of the things that I have learnt is that trees belong outside. Well, my parents brought a tree inside the house on the weekend. Not only that, but then they proceeded to put decorations on it: lights and shiny gold balls and little angels. On the tree!! They dressed up a tree!! IN THE HOUSE!!! They are crazy (gee, I hope they don't read this).

Oh well.

Bye for now,
Roman

Not very chatty

Hi All,

Sorry for the lack of posting lately. I haven't been in a very chatty mood. But I'm sure you'll be pleased to know that I've been sleeping a lot lately. For the last 5 nights I've slept from when mum puts me in my cot (usually about 6.30pm) until 7am!!! How amazing am I??

What else? I've rolled over a couple of times. I've been practising talking. I've found a new toy to play with. This one's cool because it's with me where ever I go and whenever I play with it mum and dad say "Stop playing with your ding dong!!.

That's it for now,

Roman

Big sleeps

Hi All,

Last night mum put me to bed at about 6.40pm. I then slept until 6am when I had 2 little peeps (a peep is a very small cry of approximately 1 second duration). I then realised that I wanted to sleep some more so I went back to sleep until 7am when mum woke me up. That is officially my longest sleep ever. I also had a long sleep the night before when I only woke up at 6:20am.

Mum isn't sure what has made me start doing long sleeps again (before I was waking up again at about 2am) because 2 nights ago she made 3 changes. She made my room completely dark at night time (she made sausages for the floor and pieces of materiel to cover the top and side gaps of the blind), she is putting 2 inserts into my nappy so that I stay dry even if I've done lots of whizzes, AND she put me in a baby sleeping bag with only a sheet over me to keep me in place. Dad says that mum will never make a good scientist because you should only make 1 change at a time so you can see what makes the difference. Mum says she doesn't want to be a scientist so she doesn't care.

Also you might be interested to know that I haven't done a poo today so I'm expecting a really big one sometime soon.

Bye for now,

Roman