27 February 2011

All of Miro's friends come to little brudda's First Birthday

And Miro makes the most of it. There are presents to open,

Marshmallow catching competitions to win,

And a great big party table to sneak chocolate cake from

When the great day is finally over.

26 February 2011

A balmy day filled with boat-watching

And falling from the hammock with Vicky B

25 February 2011

Nanna flies in from Melbourne

For pork crackling and bedtime stories.

24 February 2011

Watching the ferries cruise in...

23 February 2011

Making sandcastles on the beach

And digging holes and tunnels that lead straight into the weedy sea...

22 February 2011

Besties...

Archie and Miro!

21 February 2011

Playing sillyboys over lunch~

Mostly forgetting to eat...

20 February 2011

After a hot and muggy day

And a yummy white wine roast

Miro goes to the beach with Dave and Michelle

And digs an enormous hole!

19 February 2011

Miro's beautiful fingers as he plays in the pool...

And later, with Tomas and Ayden, watching the great big moon.

18 February 2011

Miro does his first poo on the toilet

And gets this amazing car box for a present...

But it makes him so excited that he poos again all over the floor!

17 February 2011

Miro is not impressed when three emus

Invite themselves to our birthday picnic;

Sitting right down on the grass beside us,

And occasionally (hopefully!) poke their beak in our face!

16 February 2011

Miro spends the day being a Really Good Big Brother

To the birthday boy Tai; sharing his delights;

Helping him open the presents; and in an instant,

Blowing out the candle before little fingers can touch it.

15 February 2011

Sitting on the itchy grass,

Listening to Bandoo

Tell stories about aeroplanes.

14 February 2011

Brothers in the bath

Soft heads craned around the bubbling tap.

13 February 2011

Miro learns to cut with a knife

And sets to task, chopping the mushrooms for dinner.

12 February 2011

Right when Miro was a nice nephew,

Right before he LICKED Gen silly !

11 February 2011

Miro gets excited about Matai's first birthday present arriving in the mail

And "opens it for him", and then when the present is a t-shirt,

"Wears it for him" too !

10 February 2011

Miro loves people reading books to him

And luckily, Bandoo is ever ready to read him plenty

At all hours of the day.

9 February 2011

The ground-in dirt of a whole day of play +

Yummy noodles with Din

Is obligatorily followed

By a nice soapy dunking in Nanny's purple bucket

Before the trip back home.

8 February 2011

Wild boys a-floor!

Tearing around the museum on all fours...

7 February 2011

First long-sleeves in maybe months

And Miro protests when they're first put on

Complaining the tightness around his shoulders makes his arms look like a "monkey" !

(Complete with convincing apish demonstration...)

6 February 2011

Miro and the (positively mythological-status!) Aunty Doody

Play racing cars on the Mypad.

5 February 2011

At Archie's house, Miro marvels at the low-flying planes

And crowds around the birthday cake with his friends since 6 weeks old,

Dipping the occasional finger into the cream!

4 February 2011

Miro frolics in the balmy seawater

While Mummy's footfingers give him a good flip!

3 February 2011

While Miro learns about pouring, and spends days furtively

Tipping liquids from one container to another,

His little brother engages in some hero-worship

And insists on eating Miro's dinner beside him,

Despite having already eaten before.

There's always room for more!

2 February 2011

Whenever there's pizza to be had, in the cooling dusk of another heatwave,

Miro is super excited, but carefully removes all the delicious toppings first

Then plays the "fou" with what's left over!

1 February 2011

Miro would like to sit in the clamshell with his steamroller

But there are too many feet already in it!

(Everyone cooling down on a 41 degree day)

31 January 2011

Miro relishing his meal-of-the-moment ~

Pasta with nothing on it.

30 January 2011

Today, at Josh and Jackie's house

Maddie teaches Miro to play the recorder

Though he prefers just to toot! ear-splittingly,

Over and over again!

Later we go to the beach,

Where Miro finds a dinosaur he names "RAR" (complete with clawing motions)

And RAR, and only RAR, can tempt him into returning to the beach

When he decides he's had enough, and starts walking home on his own.

29 January 2011

Searching for gold in the Hill End gully.

Splitting open quartz rocks with great cracking smacks.

28 January 2011

While Miro slumbers, Mummy captures

His perfectly dirty "poot", and mouth just moments

After nounoucar falls from it.

Later, when he awakens, he loves yelling at the kangaroos...

Is disappointed and stages a sit-down protest

When he cannot enter a house he falls in love with...

And is finally tempted into a backsling ride

Where we walk through the peaceful goldrush streets

And taste mulberries from the tree.

27 January 2011

Miro braves the leeches ("nakes") to pan some river gold

And later delights in some tomfoolery with his brother and a beach ball.

But still, the car beckons, or rather, the Nounoucar...

26 January 2011

On Australia Day, we head to the outback,

Where Mudgee is a meat-cook 42 degrees, and we are forced

Into a petrol detour of 60km to the Black Stump.

Luckily, orange iceblocks improve all moods,

Enough for the singing and playing with Bandoo in the back,

And finally, at Mudgee, a dusk walk before dinner.

After tea, we walk the insect-studded shut shop windows

Watching bug haloes around the street lights,

And retreating into the moist mug of our pub room.