it must be love love love

mama brought
me to the zoo
again today
and we met
met up with
mardi and ella
mama kept
saying to me
kiss ella
kiss ella
and so i did...
awwwwwwww

like peas in a (continents-apart) pod

dear luke
just as you have your
coins in the pringle tin
i have my
pegs in the plastic plum tub
how similar are we???

another first

this evening, after he finished feeding me
and tried to have his own dinner
i hovered around papa's dinner plate
acting like a seagull/vulture
and so papa decided to
put some of his food into a bowl
and let me feed myself for the first time...
(note to papa - next time, remember the bib and suction bowl!!!!!)
in order to buy himself
a peaceful and quiet dinner time
you can see for yourself the results -
how dextrous am i at using both hands
and how pleased am i at my little self?!

best of both worlds

you know mr darwin's theory about survival of the fittest?
the one that suggests the genes you inherit
are supposed to be the best ones from either of your parents
well mama thinks it's actually gone haywire in my case
she reckons i've managed to acquire
her late-night-owl gene
coupled with
papa's early-to-rise gene...
so you can imagine what the means for them, hey?!

i'm going to be a super model

yesterday mama tried to
take some pictures of me
and she kept saying
'smile james'
then she kept
laughing her head off
because each time she said it
this is what i did...

i must have an innate sense
of what it takes to be a pouty moody supermodel...

transcendental playground

as you well know i love playing on the swings
and i am usually all excited and joyful at the
freedom of flying high up in the air
mama thinks this picture of me
far away in dreamy contemplation
makes a nice change...

regression

most children
learn to drink
from a sippy cup
around 6 months
before they then
graduate onto
a straw sipper
but as you all know
i am 'unique'
and tend to do things
'my way'
so having mastered
the art of straw-sipping
mama decided to
get me to try drinking

from a sippy cup
as i had never
been able to do so before
finally, we are all
pleased as punch
now that i can drink
like the adults do
despite the slightly
out-of-kilter
time line

future automobile designer

aunti letti
you will be so pleased to watch another video of me
this time it's my drawing skills
you will notice my autophilia...
(mama is understandably perturbed by
my incessant practice of drawing circles
- first come tyres, then comes body of car...)

water works

i am getting
more and more
interested in
the world
at large and
how things work
i was quite
mesmerised by
the water fountain
on sunday
mama is very
thankful the person
who designed it
had the foresight
to make it pretty
toddler-proof...
... for now anyway!

cadel evans watch out

this is my
most recent
bicycle pic from
when we went
cycling along the
swan river
on sunday
you can't see it here
but i am
utterly brilliant at
chewing sucking
and biting
on those
helmet straps!
how'd you like
the fringe-less james?

zoology 102

who's the
king of the
jungle?
who's the
roaring
rascal?
well,
can you guess
which is which?

6+6+6 months

mama can't quite believe
i am 18 months old today
she keeps asking me,
"where's my
baby james gone?"
whatever does she mean?
i guess i have shed
my baby-guise
and now head into
toddlerdom...
she keeps saying
how much she misses
my little baby-ness
but i bet she doesn't miss
those constant feeding days!

we spent sunday
cycling along the river
as we have done
the past 3 weeks in a row
thank goodness for
the fab weather!
(roll on spring, i say!)
i loved playing
on this
roundabout platform
so much!!!
papa thinks i looked
like an elf
clad in my red trackkies!
what a dag as usual...

blue for you

nanna went home to tassie today
after a few weeks' visit
since it was a sad day
we all decided to show our blues on our selves
bye bye nanna sheila
you will be sorely missed...

zoology 101

every time we go to the zoo
mama forgets the camera
her excuse is that
it's just too hard
trying to take a picture
whilst chasing after me
and trying to control
the runaway stroller
but this time
nanna brought her camera
so we managed to
get some snaps
here i am
pointing excitedly
at the lemur
in it's enclosure
(ha! ha! mama was scared of it)

dashing through the rain

i don't know about you
but all this rainy weather lately
has been driving me insane
keeping me cooped up indoors
so it was with great relish
that mama took a chance
in between showery periods
and brought me
for a nice long walk
along the coast yesterday
she also let me run amuck
on the deserted playground
of course it was wet
of course i got sodden
of course i fell down

sure i got caked with sand
but i had it all to myself
and nothing, nothing
beats the freedom of
madly dashing about
tearing up and down
the slopes and slides
with the wind in one's hair
woo hoo!

wheely cow fun

now that i can articulate the mooing sound of a cow
mama borrowed this wheely cow from the toy library for me
she was really impressed when i saw it
and instantly made the moo-ey sounds
cause she doesn't think it looks awfuly like a cow
but there you go -
children tend to have more creative imagination than adults, don't they?!

quote of the day

mama stumbled
across this quote
by kahlil gibran
of the prophet fame
and quite likes it
she says she must
make it her mantra
during the times
when it's my way
or the highway:







Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters
of life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love, but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.

pppppfffffffffttttttttttttttt...........

today
i started
sticking my
tongue out
and blowing drool
all over the place
something i seem to think
rather funny!