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December 27, 2008 at 3:45 pm · Filed under Blogging, Cygnet, Paddington
Christmas and Boxing Day are done!
Now we’re just surrounded by more stuff—people have been very good to us (Cygnet could pretty much be a one-baby advertisement for Lamaze toys!)
Lots of posts to catch up on, and decisions and plans to make for the coming year. I’m hoping to fill in the missing Advent posts over the next week (it was a choice of doing stuff, or blogging stuff… so I chose the doing:-) ) But otherwise, I wouldn’t expect to hear much from me until we’re going to start back at ’school’ in the middle of January. We’ll be busy catching up with folks, going away for a few days, and enjoying Paddington’s company while he’s on leave.
Hope you all had a good Christmas, that your New Year celebrations are enjoyable, and that 2009 holds many good things for you!
December 13, 2008 at 9:09 pm · Filed under Advent, Bilby, Domestic Life, Family, Food, Paddington, Puggle, Season
Bring Dada sweet rolls in bed.
Yesterday when Puggle was making his own freshly squeezed orange juice, he was talking about making juice for Dada for breakfast. Last night I set out everything needed for breakfast.
This morning, Paddington was woken with freshly squeezed orange juice and fruit toast. Puggle carried it all in, but Bilby helped clear it away (she’s pretty good at carrying laden plates, but not completely reliable yet:-) )
December 6, 2008 at 10:00 pm · Filed under Advent, Baking, Bilby, Blogging, Books, Cygnet, Domestic Life, Family, Food, For Children, Paddington, Picture Books, Puggle, Season
Today the task was to read The Secret of Saint Nicholas
. This was one of the books we had from the library last year, and Puggle recognised it when we got it out again:-)
This gave us a chance to catch up on our cooking:-) So while I put Bilby down for her nap, the boys baked:-)
November 3, 2008 at 11:12 pm · Filed under Bilby, Cygnet, Family, Paddington, Progress, Puggle
Today, we had absolute grins (rather than just smiles):-)
And even better, they were in response to our smiles. I think Paddington and I had the first ‘directed’ grins—but Puggle and Bilby have had more…
October 23, 2008 at 8:33 pm · Filed under Bilby, Birthdays, Craft, Domestic Life, Family, Food, Paddington, Puggle, Season
Bilby's 2nd Birthday cake
I’ve been watching Bilby peruse the Cake
books
(Puggle often gets them down for them both to look through) to try and work out what I’d do for her cake.
After some discussion with Paddington (we decided it needed to be related to a nursery rhyme) and some more looking at the books, I decided to try for “Baa Baa Black Sheep”. I based it on the Poodle in one of them, but that is white… so I rolled the marshmallows in cocoa (I decided not to make my own marshmallow and colour it black:-) ). And after Puggle’s Tipper Truck, I was keen that it didn’t involve too many different sorts of lollies:-) (We still have some lollies left over from that!)
Basically, I googled for sheep images, chose one and used that as a template. Cut out the cake, iced it and attached marshmallows rolled in cocoa for the wool. I then finished off with some licorice to outline the face, and to be the feet. Pretty simple (simple enough that I did it once the extended family had arrived to celebrate:-) ) But pretty effective in the end:-)
September 30, 2008 at 12:06 am · Filed under Family, Paddington, Puggle
Playschool used playdough in a craft activity.
Puggle was telling Paddington all about it at dinner, he detailed just what they did with the “plato”.
I commented that he lacked the cultural references—Paddington corrected me:-)
September 9, 2008 at 8:50 pm · Filed under Bilby, Cygnet, Domestic Life, Family, Motherhood, Paddington, Puggle
This is a very long post… If you’re not interested in minute details of the birth story, feel free to skip it:-)
I need to write this up before it gets lost in a flood of hormones and milk!
Sometime about the start of the third trimester, once I decided that I agreed with Puggle that Cygnet was a boy, I started thinking that he would probably come early (my mother’s theory is that boys are early, girls are late… it seems to hold for our family). Puggle was 6 days early, Bilby days late, so I was guessing that Cygnet would be 4 days early. Of course… 6 weeks ago a State Government election was called for 3 days early… so I revised my prediction:-) We made sure to organise our postal votes—and I am very glad we did them! (Although, it does mean I’ve ended up with the most vacant feeling about this election!)
I’ve been not particularly well for a couple of weeks, which combined with pregnancy has resulted in many night-time loo trips.
2.17 Sat morning, I got back from one and made a note of the time, because I realised that possibly it was a contraction that had woken me, rather than any other sort of discomfort.
2.28 I figured that yes, it was probably a contraction, because I was fairly certain that was another. Then it was just a waiting game, to see when (if) more came. About 15 minutes later, there was another, then around 15 more. So… things are definitely happening, time to ring the birth centre and give them a heads up. The contractions were definitely more intense than I remember the early ones being with either of the other two, so when I spoke to the midwife, I said I thought that we’d be in ‘tonight’… I don’t know that she heard that…
They picked up fairly rapidly, and between them we worked on packing bags/car, and making sure that all was organised. At about 3.50 we rang my folks to say we figured we’d be heading to the birth centre pretty soon, so could they come over now… By 4.10, they hadn’t arrived, but I’d rung the birth centre again to say we were leaving (the contraction just before that I’d had a definite pushing sensation… not intensely so… but it unnerved me a bit). That was when I had the news that they were going to prepare the parent education room for me, all four ‘real’ rooms were occupied:-( (When we got there, Janni said she hadn’t expected to see me until the morning, and had hoped to have had someone cleared out by then.)
Mum and Dad arrived very soon afterwards, so I made my way to the car… Mum asked what they would do about bringing the kids in (Puggle really wanted to see Cygnet being born… but had been placated with the opportunity to see ‘him’ “all bloody” and see the placenta… so we had arranged that—depending on time of day—they would come in at the same time as us and wait in the waiting room… of course, overnight was the one time we had planned that they wouldn’t come in at the same time.) I suggested they all just come in as soon as they were all awake and breakfasted… I was fairly confident that Cygnet would be born before the sun rose! Contractions were around 7 minutes apart by now… but were really intense… Puggle woke to come and send us off—he did not want us to leave… but he did agree to kiss Cygnet goodbye:-)
I had two contractions in the car… one on the way (Underwood Ave?), and one as Paddington drove into the Birth Centre carpark… it’s a sharp turn into the covered entrance—and he hasn’t driven the car more than a couple of times—certainly not to the point of being certain where the front and back are…
We got inside and were shown to the Parent Education room… the biggest room in the building… of course, it has no beds, no comfy seats, no ensuite… It has a large pile of beanbags (I think we could probably have used a new beanbag each, each hour we were there and still have had some left over), a number of gym mats, a whiteboard and a pile of seats. Fortunately, there was a fit ball, so I took possession of that and a backwards chair while Paddington went to get the bags and the midwife went about ‘converting’ the room. Eventually we met ‘our’ midwife… one of the blue team—I have been with the yellow team. It was also pretty chilly… I hadn’t expected that, as the general feeling in the rest of the birth centre is a touch too warm when you’re dressed. They had the airconditioning turned on, but it seemed to be directing a cool breeze right at me.
We had asked about what happened in times of overflow—without actually expecting it to happen to us:-( It seemed that the room gets used enough that the know what needs doing, but not enough that they get much practice at it. A pillow was scrounged, and some blankets found… a little table (the one the kids use to play on in the waiting room) was moved in so I could have water close at hand. Eventually the whiteboard was moved next to the door to screen things a bit (not that there’s any through traffic normally… but people do tend to wander in to pick up various educational materials… not an issue at that hour of the morning… but could have been later.) People did keep coming in to do things later, realise they’d forgotten something (no hand washing facilities) and have to go away and come back later.
Before long (at some point here is where my sense of time disappears…) I moved to snuggle up to a beanbag on a mat… I couldn’t get comfortable. The midwife comments that I look nice and relaxed! I think that I’m not at all 
So… a bit of a hike to go to the loo (the ones off the entrance) and possibly my waters broke… another contraction with definite need to push, in the waiting room on the way back. I’m also pretty sure now that my waters have gone. Back in the room I’m draped over a beanbag, kneeling on a mat. I think they’ve found some sheets and things so that I’m not directly on the vinyl. I’m definitely needing to push, and I still can’t get comfortable. (I know that at some point I told Paddington that if we ever do it again, I’m not doing it without water! It was either sometime around now, or after delivery). The contractions were coming fairly constantly—I felt as though I wasn’t really getting a recovery between them. And I was pushing. I don’t know how many there were… I don’t think it was many. I know I reached down to feel his head and could feel the bulge—I wasn’t sure if it was me or him… but I could feel where his head was, and it was all slimy (I wasn’t expecting that). I do remember talking to him and telling him to stay there for a bit more… that wasn’t the right push. I kept my hand on his head, and cradled it through the next push, which I think is when it came out. I felt a sharp pain, that I could have sworn was a tear (that’s what I thought). I kept my hand under his head, he was there… then I waited. He cried. I knew I would need to push again, but I wasn’t getting any urge (Paddington told me yesterday that at that point the midwife got out her watch and checked the time.) Finally I did. And I pushed, and he came out… (I assume the midwife caught him—I definitely wasn’t holding him any more). I sort of collapsed over the beanbag—I wanted to collapse further, but he was below me and I didn’t want to risk squashing him. Paddington told me it was a boy:-) (If I didn’t say anything about the water before, now was the time.) It was 5.54am. Sunrise was supposed to be 6.27—so he well and truly beat it:-)
Eventually we got ourselves sorted out, so that I was holding him (and lying down! At long last! Vaguely comfortably!) Eventually I moved him round so he could nurse when he was ready (and help that placenta along…) He attached with no difficulty. The midwife checked for tears. And commented about the lack of any blood. Cygnet was completely un-bloody (much to Puggle’s later disappointment… he had desperately wanted to see Cygnet while he was all bloody!). I didn’t tear or even graze—in spite of what I thought I’d felt. In fact, the first blood was after I delivered the placenta (6.15 I think… so pretty much 4 hours from start to finish)… (and Cygnet finally got a little blood on him when Paddington cut the cord—the merest speckle). The afterpains just about did me in:-(
Once the placenta was checked, and I was cleaned up a little, I finally got to lie down a bit more comfortably and reposition Cygnet (I have been so relieved that I learnt to breastfeed while lying down with Puggle! It has made so much of this recovery time much easier!) I even started feeling hungry—given the last couple of weeks, I was very pleased:-) It got to the point where I got Paddington to check that we hadn’t been overlooked for breakfast—given we hadn’t been there that long and were not in a ‘normal’ room… but it was ok, I was assured breakfast was on the way. During this time, another pillow had been found, as had a fold a bed, so they were made up. We rang the grandparents to tell them:-)
In fact, breakfast arrived at almost the same time as Puggle and Bilby:-) So I delayed eating a little in order to introduce them to Cygnet:-) They were both very taken with him, but Puggle wouldn’t give me a kiss—he wanted to wait until we got home, and he could have a hold of Cygnet:-) Bilby decided I needed to be wearing my glasses… Cygnet was nursing, so she asked to as well. We managed somehow, although, it wasn’t very proficient. She was much happier once she’d met eyes with Cygnet across my chest:-)
After a little while, they started to be more interested in the food than the baby, so Paddington took them out. Of course, just after leaving the room, Bilby started wanting to nurse again… but Granny and Grandpa took them home for second breakfast instead:-)
Then, I got to eat:-) Best food ever 
The hearing test woman arrived, basically to tell us he was too young to do the test right now… so we got the card to ring and book later.
Time for the loo, and I really wanted to clean up a bit more before moving to the bed… of course, no ensuite… by this stage, the bathroom with the big bath was vacant. So I had the choice of that (half the length of the birth centre away) or the shower off the on-call room—but I was warned the water was often a bit chilly. I decided to go for the longer walk… which, aside from being pretty tired, wasn’t a drama… and it was a lovely warm room:-)
When I got back, I actually felt pretty chipper:-) The midwife was all set up, so we did weights and measures. Cygnet weighed 3365 grams (7 lb 6 1/2 oz), was 49 cms long, and had a 35 cm head circumference. I hopped into the bed, curled up with Cygnet, and there was even a bit of room for Paddington:-) We slept:-)
We’d decided that we’d probably stay till lunchtime, that would give us time to sleep and eat, and we weren’t sure how long it would take for the paediatrician to get to us. As it turned out, she arrived just after I woke up. Aside from difficulty in finding the femoral arteries (as with Bilby… but at least Cygnet wasn’t screaming!), it was all very straightforward. I decided I’d like to sit up to feed, and the midwife dragged in an armchair from the waiting room.
If I hadn’t already selected lunch (or I was excited about eating lunch at home:-) ), I think we would have headed home then. As it was, we hung around for it. It wasn’t as tasty as breakfast—although, it did smell pretty good:-)
Then we gathered our stuff together (made sure we had the placenta:-) Puggle has finally looked at it, so it’s gone into the freezer with the others, until we work out where to plant it), the midwives went through the discharge paperwork, and we headed home. It was just after two when we left, and we were home, unpacked and settled in by about half past. Mum and dad weren’t expecting us quite so soon, and had parked us out of the driveway:-) Mum had just settled down for a nap on the couch, because both the children were settled. Instead, she cuddled Cgynet for a bit, and we chatted (Paddington headed off to do the weekly shop… pretty much at his usual time). Then I headed to bed so that I’d be ‘established’ there before the kids woke.
They were both very excited when they woke:-) They got to have cuddles—and have asked for them continuously since then:-) Then Paddington’s folks arrived to take the kids to the park (and home for dinner… they had brought some for us, as well:-) ). So we got to spend most of the afternoon quietly, then put the kids to bed as normal (well, relatively… They were a little unsettled…) Definitely a plus, the disruption to them was fairly minimal.
Now of course, we’re all readjusting, which is taking a while… I’m recovering more slowly than I had anticipated. The birth related discomfort disappeared by day 3, but I am taking longer to get over the various ills of the previous weeks:-( As I said though, so glad I can nurse lying down! I just hadn’t expected to be doing it for so long I’m desperate to be able to sit up on the couch!)
We’re still working on a name…
I managed to not have Paddington spend Father’s Day supporting me through labour, but on reflection, having the first day home with the kids being Father’s Day was probably not the most resful thing he’s ever done… My parents took the older two to a family BBQ for the evening (they didn’t want to miss seeing their cousins) and given how wiped out I was from being vertical, it’s just as well we didn’t go…
Cygnet has done really well so far, his weight loss was well within the bounds of normal, and has put on 140 grams over the last two days… he’s wee-ing and poo-ing on schedule, and the cord has fallen off. He’s also moving his head around nicely, and pushing with his legs:-) He’s sleeping delightfully so far—of course, it is very early days yet:-) He does seem similar to the other two in all the good ways:-) I’m getting the hang of tandem feeding… Bilby is really enjoying the milk—-she’d been asking where it was. Now she says ‘bilk!’ with great satisfaction:-)
Anyway… this is monstrously long… but I think I have everything important in… I certainly hope so, because I’m finding it all becoming very vague:-( The wonder of birth…
September 8, 2008 at 7:45 pm · Filed under Family, Paddington, Puggle
Things you never thought you’d say…
To Puggle…
“I don’t think Dada’s ever said ‘Cock-a-doodle-doo’ when he got out of the shower?!”
August 16, 2008 at 11:37 pm · Filed under Bilby, Family, Paddington, Puggle
The children have both done swimming lessons since they were around 5 or 6 months old. I won’t be able to swim with them for the first little while after Cygnet arrives, so Paddington will be doing so. In preparation, we took them to the pool today, so he could practise (particularly with Bilby, Puggle is old enough that the parent is basically a moving platform:-) )
I had planned on spending a few minutes going over some holds, then giving Bilby a chance to practise with her dada, and then we’d spend most of the time playing.
Instead? Bilby spent almost all the time swimming between us! Back and forth… she was really tired by the end (tending to float with minimal propulsion… which did have it’s disturbing moments—she has a much longer lung capacity than I always give her credit for). She did go on the slide a couple of times, and thought that was fun, but mostly, she was about throwing herself into the water towards whichever parent wasn’t currently holding her:-)
Puggle had a great time, doing circuits, duck diving, sliding and showing off his new-found ‘windmill arms’:-) He still tends to need a new battery in his left arm, and tends to cycle his legs instead of kicking them… but he’s definitely swimming, and really comfortable in water… Sadly the water wasn’t really deep enough for him to practice diving… I’m not sure if there are any pools that would be more suitable—I (generally, it was a bit colder today) like the temperature of the pool we went to… the kids still get cold quite quickly as it’s not as warm as the pool where we do our lessons, but it’s better than an outdoor pool would be. But it is shallow enough that Puggle can walk the whole time (now… he still tends to jump, because when we first went there he was only just tall enough).
It was a lot of fun… and something we need to do more often:-)
July 12, 2008 at 10:48 pm · Filed under Bilby, Domestic Life, Family, Home Education, Language, Paddington, Progress, Puggle, Reading, This Week
Week 1, Block 6, Dorothea Term
We continued our focus on routine and habits (I don’t know that the strategies I’m currently employing can best be described as successful:-( ).
We did get to Mat (couch!) Time most days, so we did a fair amount of reading and singing… Puggle is proving fond of The Skye Boat Song:-) Bilby is choosing to come and sit with us on the couch for a portion of the time, which is nice. Up until now she has pretty much either ignored us, or wanted to nurse. But she’s now bringing her own books to have read:-) (She loves nursery rhymes!)
I’ve also introduced the dipthongs/digraphs I had planned. I’m not anticipating that Puggle will memorise them and start applying them completely, this is mostly a first introduction. When we see the week’s examples around, I’m pointing them out—although, he has pointed some out on occasion, and has sometimes suggested words that might use them. I haven’t done much more than show them to him (and encourage him to trace them—I did make them sandpaper versions… may as well make use of that), and introduce the sounds, and find examples in our reading. Later in the week though, he was asking questions (while they were colouring in), so I drew some pictures, wrote the words and the sounds and got him to match them up. It’s really hard to find concrete nouns (that are within my drawing capacity!) for each sound off the top of my head:-( I think I need to start making a list (perhaps just each week in preparation) so that I’m not trying to do it on the fly:-)
All in all, a reasonably productive week. Especially given Paddington was away and we were all somewhat on edge:-(
July 9, 2008 at 3:25 pm · Filed under For the Future, Home Education, Organisation, Paddington
I’m a longtime Mac user… although, I don’t generally do much that is Mac specific.
Recently, there’s been some people talking about scheduling/planning their days with iCal, and Jen posted a tutorial today.
All the discussion reminded me that Paddington had at one point been playing with iCal to schedule iTunes playlists (this was a couple of years ago). I thought I would have another go:-) Late last night I remembered this plan. Sadly, it was too late in the evening for me to function effectively, but I did come across this page (with it’s helpful note at the top—although, sadly the link didn’t work!) I opened up iCal, and got to the point where it would call a script… I just didn’t have any ready (I knew what to write, thanks to that link, I just wasn’t sure where to put them):-(
With fresh eyes, I started today.
In my Applications Folder, I found AppleScript, and there found the ScriptEditor.app. I opened that, and simply copied and pasted the examples from that page (although I did rename the playlist so that it would find one in my copy of iTunes:-). I clicked on Compile, and then saved the Script in a folder (that I noted! It defaults to the Document folder, so I made a Scripts folder in that:-) ). I did this for a couple of different playlists.
Then I went back to iCal. I scheduled Mat Time as a recurring event (every day except Friday—Jen gave nice instructions for dealing with iCal:-) ) I set an alarm for it, and as per this page, made it call the script that set it playing the Current Week playlist (for ease, I basically named each script after the playlist it called:-) ).
Of course, I’ve now gone a bit mad and have almost filled some days with automatic music:-) It’s just an experiment… But I’m thinking that having quiet classical music coming on when it’s time to start getting ready for bed will help us all remember to start calming down, and I often forget to turn on music while preparing dinner—until my hands are already covered in food:-( And of course, the current week’s music selections around Mat Time:-)
But in the end, far easier than I expected!
June 21, 2008 at 3:05 pm · Filed under Domestic Life, Family, Paddington, Puggle
Puggle has declared today ‘Balloon Day’. He found a bag with a couple of (unblown) balloons in it, and has insisted on blowing them up and playing with them. He did this before I was awake (Paddington wakes first on Saturdays), and greeted me with the fact of the day:-)
He’s rather taken with the notion:-)
June 1, 2008 at 9:27 am · Filed under Bilby, Domestic Life, Family, Paddington, Puggle
So this morning (7.30), Paddington and I were woken by the sounds of conversation from the kitchen… It was Puggle and Bilby.
Last night, I had set out some basic breakfast things that are normally outside Puggle’s reach, in the hope that he might be able to get them some food if they woke up really hungry (although, I did forget that the milk was really a bit full for him to pour, so I’ll need to remember to decant some into a more conveniently-sized container).
I went out to check that all was well (and also to make sure it was both of them… the sounds were insufficiently clear—and a little worrying if they were Bilby on her own!) Puggle was getting Bilby her breakfast, and when he saw me, he told me that Bilby had got up (from her own bed, third night in a row!), come over, grabbed his hand and taken him into the kitchen (I had closed the gate so that if she had woken again in the night, she’d be ‘directed’ to our room…), so he could get her breakfast:-)
The only tears from her were when I removed the spoon from her hand because I thought she was following me to drink—in actual fact, she didn’t nurse until after she’d finished her breakfast! (Once around 2 o’clock, and that was it… given she’s tended to nurse from about 4/5am onwards, that’s quite a change! Not sure if it’s a one off, or a new pattern for the new sleeping arrangement…)
Now, there’s the cheerful sounds of children playing in their room:-)
All in all, a good morning:-)
March 15, 2008 at 12:10 am · Filed under Bilby, Domestic Life, Family, Food, Menu, Paddington, Puggle, Recipes
I’m kind of always on the lookout for more vegetarian recipes. Recently I have been looking through Complete Vegetarian Cookbook
, and have found a few to try. We had this Ratatouille the other day, and Paddington, Bilby and I enjoyed it, Puggle not so much:-) Today my parents were over, so I offered them lunch. Dad decided he would have this as it didn’t have meat (it being Friday)—and he ate with actual signs of enjoyment:-) (He’s not at all into vegetarian stuff really:-) ) He had to share some with Bilby, who in spite of the fact that she is really a meat girl (she will polish off as much meat as we will give her!), thinks that this is fabulous! So, I’m guessing it’s a keeper:-)
Ratatouille from Charmaine Solomon’s Complete Vegetarian Cookbook
Serves 6
750 grams eggplant (skin on, cubed)
cooking salt
3 small zucchini (skin on, cubed)
2 capsicums (red or green, seeded and sliced)
3 cloves of garlic (finely chopped)
2 large onions (finely chopped)
4 large, ripe tomatoes (diced)
1/2 cup olive oil
1 teaspoon ground coriander
1 teaspoon dried basil
salt and freshly ground black pepper
Sprinkle the eggplant and zucchini cubes with a little salt and set aside in a colander for about an hour. Press out and discard the liquid drawn out by the salt (I did this using paper towel, and I did wonder what the non-paper alternative would be? Tea towels?) Heat the olive oil, and gently cook the onions and garlic until they are soft but not brown. Add the eggplant, zucchini and capsicums. Cook over a low heat for half an hour (I see now I was supposed to cover it, but it worked fine). Add the tomatoes, coriander, basil and salt and pepper (I went very easy on the salt, because I wasn’t sure how much would remain on the vegetables, but I could safely have added more). Cook for another half an hour or so. Vegetables should be very tender. It suggest serving with Middle Eastern or crusty French bread. Sadly, although I pre-read the recipe, I missed this, so we had it without. It would definitely make it a more ‘complete’ meal though. She also suggests putting the cooked meal in an oven proof dish, making hollows in the top and breaking in an egg for each person before baking at 180˚C until the eggs are cooked.
I’ll definitely be remembering the bread (and I think I’ve seen a version with chickpeas included that might also be a nice alternative?), but otherwise this will become somewhat regular as it is:-)
March 14, 2008 at 9:35 pm · Filed under Bilby, Domestic Life, Family, Music, Paddington, Puggle, Singing
Puggle started questioning me about the meaning of “band”. As we’re doing “The Black Velvet Band“, I thought he meant in that context, but he told me he meant like Huge Henry (I had to go and read it to work out what he meant). Henry gets all the other animals together to form a band.
Later, he was playing the piano. Bilby decided she wanted to do that as well, so then he went to get the ukulele. They had a lovely time making ‘music’:-) I pointed out to him that they were being a band. He got very excited, and told me that when Dada got home, he would ask him to play his guitar, and that would make the band even bigger and louder! I said I might even get out the violin as well. That was even more exciting:-)
So, after dinner, when they were both ready for bed, we jammed (for some definitions of the word—there wasn’t much music!) We had the guitar, violin, ukulele, piano, recorder, tapping sticks, egg maracas and voice… it was great, aside from the small matter of no common repetoire:-) We’re going to work on that:-) Bilby was particularly taken with the recorder, she had it upside down and was blowing into it and spinning around… very cute!
We’ll definitely be doing that again:-) (Maybe Sunday, when people come to craft even…) I realised when I was putting Puggle to bed this evening, that I this week I had made progress on two parts of my New Year’s Resolutions—we played games Tuesday evening, and now music:-)
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