March Update
14 March 2016
Hi everyone,
Not even three weeks until we head
down to ‘das kapital’! The way the post is, we may be there before this letter!
At Joe’s Plunket appointment on 17
February he weighed 8.78 kg and measured 72 cm tall, he does seem so much heavier,
especially after carrying him about for a while. He’s 50th on the
weight percentile and 70th on the height. Joe’s climbing everything
he’s able to, and trying everything else. Although not properly walking yet he
gets up on to his digger has started to try to operate the digger arm and
mimics the noise it’s ‘starter’ button makes. He loves the animals and escaped
his compound on Friday, yes at 10 months and 11 days, to go visit Ruby cow,
tethered just beside Joe’s area. It has been fortified, but Tony has received
instruction for increasing the height of compound – it’s going to need to be
like Fort Knox.
Joe’s teething at the moment, poor
lad. His top right front tooth is just through, but giving him trouble keeping
him and us up at night and he has a scarlet cheek. Paracetamol is getting him
through the worst bits and he’s gnawing on his cold cucumber and chewing his
dummy. He ‘gums’ up his meat so efficiently now, he’s going to be a machine
once he’s got teeth. Joe’s also
transitioning to normal cow’s milk too, so that’ll make travel easier.
We had a fantastic time in Auckland
and Joe coped really well with the trip and even the weather played nice. Tony
enjoyed his jet boat ride and the car show was full of cars! We had an
interesting meal at a restaurant, after I made them clean their filthy high
chair (sadly a regular occurrence at eateries), but we wouldn’t return to the
Chancery Bistro. The IBIS hotel was lovely, as usual, and Joe delighted in
using their bar/restaurant concourse area as a racetrack for baby crawling exercise
and the staff were marvellous about it too.
Autumn is definitely here. One night
last week it got down to only 10 degrees C, I had to close some windows. It
means slippers and a sweatshirt on for Joe in the mornings but it warms up
quickly and they’re off by 9 am and he’s usually down to just his shorts by 11.
It is nice snuggling in with the duvet at night. I think this is our perfect
time of the year.
We’ve been having a bit of fun playing
a joke on Kaarac who has a rather large lawn and with all the rain this summer
has had to mow it very frequently. Especially a 3 x 6 foot rectangular patch
I’ve fertilised with NPK and splosh a bit of extra water on it if he’s not
home. It’s growing at three times the rate of the rest of the lawn and is very
noticeably grave shaped. He’s mentioned the ‘grave’ growth and that he wonders…
Tony and I could hardly keep a straight face.
We think we should be able to keep this one going and laughing at Kaarac
for quite some time. Lucky petrol’s
cheap at the moment. We’re just a little
evil!
Tony’s working at Waipapa full time
now, staying put – except he’s gone to Kaikohe workshop today, although it’s
probably for the boss’s birthday cake.
Everything is ticking along just nicely.
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