First Easter Egg of the year...
Consumed in less than 4 minutes.
28 March 2011
Watching Play School Dinosaurs, and
Simultaneously keeping guard
Against Matai's twiddly sound-stoppping fingers.
27 March 2011
Daddy creates a fruit box in the fridge
That the boys can go to any time they are hungry.
Unfortunately you've got to be quick, and Matai is astonished
When he realises that Miro has, within the hour,
Already made the fruit box empty!
26 March 2011
Watching TV under his favourite blankie
That is usually stuffed behind the lounge
In his secret kids-only cubby.
25 March 2011
Today, Miro learns
To negotiate the jagged rocks
At Maitland Bay; finding octopus
And ship bones and shells
With the sea in them.
24 March 2011
Today we make trucks, and great rockets that launch,
Fire duplo pluming~
And create the sound effects with the boys' favourite book.
23 March 2011
A very happy little boy plays on Leelee's lap!
Moredin brings back some trucks and boats he found,
And Miro waits in anticipation for the Racing Car Beds
(Red for Miro, blue for Goo)
That Din will bring up on Sunday. Ka-Chow!
18 March 2011
To perk Miro up, Daddy pulls out Sing Star
And then we visit the special restaurant with the racing cars for dinner!
17 March 2011
In a week of being sick and housebound
One of Miro's rare smiling moments
Is when Bandoo starts topping a pavlova
To celebrate Daddy becoming an Australian.
16 March 2011
Miro finally gets to go on the flying fox...
And watches in bemused astonishment as Bandoo gets her hair done!
15 March 2011
Miro's favourite phrase at the moment
Is to trail after us, saying brightly
"Wead? Wead a book?"
14 March 2011
In a miserable sick day for Mummy, Matai and Miro, all three...
Miro gets into his dinosaur pyjamas early,
And watches Petit Ours Brun on the Mypad.
13 March 2011
A bit feverish and miserable,
Miro reads to himself or plays with cars
At Tom's christening party.
12 March 2011
After lunch in the Wiseman's Ferry Pub we ignore the mounting heat
And make the daring endeavour of following the convict track up the hill.
But when Miro refuses to walk any further,
Daddy becomes a double decker,
Still ascending up the cliffs.
Finally we rest in the shade of Hangman's Cave,
And later ride bikes, play on the swings, and eat Chinese icecream.
We collapse into bed that night,
With Miro still smiling and saying he dreams of dindin and Archie.
11 March 2011
Miro is sent to his room twice today
For being a "chippeur" (stealing!)
Whatever toy Matai is playing with.
10 March 2011
Right before dinnertime, Daddy suggests a mysterious dusk walk...
Among trees we find "Bill", a gnarly guide
With a thick fringe of hair and robust brown body
Who takes us to the secret steps. We mount them, and then
On descending find a world all for ourselves
Where Miro runs himself thin like an eager puppy up and down
The length of smooth sinking sand;
Chasing Bandoo with feathers, writing Mooooooo in the shore
And looking at speedboats through sea-glass.
9 March 2011
In the midst of going Stir-Crazy in the restaurant...
Throwing Stegosaurus, crawling at breakneck speed up the seating,
Banging poons on plates, slurping OJ, and dragging Goo back by the neck
Every time he thinks of escaping the chaos for some of his own!
8 March 2011
Miro and Archie all super proud
Of their (indoor!) animal menagerie
Migrating surreptitiously to the backyard!
7 March 2011
Miro is not too impressed with his first haircut at a hairdresser's
But, seduced by Dora, and sitting on Mummy's lap, eventually submits
While Matai cries in the background, wishing he had some hair to cut!
6 March 2011
Miro grows lankier and more into the boy he is becoming every day.
His lovely long feet curl around the play equipment
And he bounces and climbs every higher on the giant spider web.
5 March 2011
Matai's birthday passes with Miro hardly realising it's not his...
Especially when it comes to the bike, which starts off as a Goomobile
And an hour or two later, morphs into a Miromachine.
And just wait until Uncle Joey arrives!
3 March 2011
After a walk to the headlands
Miro wants to sleep in the bush
Rather than walk all the way back to the car.
That's a face that says Not Impressed!
2 March 2011
Miro and his obsession with "mine-t"...
After climbing this big plank and the climbing down again
Miro cries "Mine-t did it! Mine-t did it!"
28 February 2011
Miro extends a protective arm across Matai
In the face of the Patonga marching blue crabs.
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