We have arrived!

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

After 6 "legs" (walk, bus, train, bus, plane, car) Chance and I arrived safe and sound in Brisbane. And not that I want to brag, or jinx myself for the trip home, but our little man was an absolute dream. He slept on the bus, then had a feed and sleep on the train, then happily made lots of cute noises on the shuttle bus to the airport, then slept for pretty much the whole flight. Honestly, it was so wonderful. I had hoped this would happen, and I think I did a good job of keeping calm and relaxed so he could follow my lead. Once we got into the car on the way home, he had had enough and lost it. And I was absolutely fine about it, as I was feeling pretty shattered and disorientated as well so I really couldn't blame the little guy.

He fell asleep in the car at the top of our street but woke up for party time once we got him out of the car. I think he finally went to sleep about 11. Monday night was a tough night for both of us, with Chance waking up every hour or 2, so we were both pretty tired starting out yesterday. I wondered if I was in for the same fate last night, but he only woke up twice, and then at 6am (7am Wang time) it was time to wake up for good. At 6:30am, Grumpy came and took him for a cuddle and gave me another few hours of wonderful sleep. I feel so much better now. He's a bit unsettled today but I'm sure he'll be back to his usual self in the next day or two.

It's really nice to be back in Brizzie catching up with rellies. He's at such a lovely age and it's nice to share this time with family. He's currently having a bit of a scream so I'd better go and see if I can help out, although Gran and Grumpy seem to have it covered!

Visit

Monday, March 28, 2011

This time tomorrow, Chanbe and I will be starting our journey to Brisbane. We are catching the bus to Seymour, train to Melbourne, shuttle to the airport, plane to Brisbane and will be picked up and taken back to Gran and Grumpy's with a stopover at Ouma's place. I'm getting tired just thinking about it! I really want to share this time in Chance's life with family and friends in Brisbane so when Virgin had cheap flights, I couldn't resist.

I think it will officially be the longest I've ever spent away from Hubs :-( I know quite a few people who spend weeks and/or months away from their partners and I have no idea how they do it, other than the fact that they are deeply committed to their relationships and I have so much respect and admiration for you guys (you know who you are.)

So if you're around I'd love to see you! I haven't scheduled any posts while I'm away but I'm hoping to have a bit of time to blog while I'm there. We'll see how that goes...

Happiness is.....

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Sitting at the computer, dunking home-made crunchy oatmeal cookies (with chocolate chips and craisins) into my cup of tea, catching up on my google reader and watching my 4 month old try and crawl while waiting for Hubs to get home after his night away.

Mmmmm.... crunchy cookies....

The many faces...

Friday, March 25, 2011

 Curious:

Happy:

 Hungry:

Sleepy:

Unimpressed:

Time with family

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Hubs' Dad and Nanna came to visit us on Sunday as they were "in the neighbourhood" (they had a party to go to in Shep) so we took them out to lunch at the King River Cafe. This is one of mine and Hubs' favourite places to take family and friends to when they visit (hint hint!!). We were originally told about it about a year ago when we were coming up to Wang from Melbourne to go house-hunting. The nephew of one of the ladies I worked with at Newman College is a chef there, and after that first visit, we just have to keep going back. They change the menu every couple of months or so, so Hubs and I have never had the same meal twice.

On Sunday Hubs opted for the butterflied sardines...


...while I had an Asian-style pork, egg and rice bowl. 
 
Hubs' Dad had the trout and gnocchi dish and Nanna ordered the pizza of the day which had smoked salmon and other goodies on it.

And of course we simply had to have dessert. (Lucky we went on that big walk the night before!!!) Hubs had an orange and chocolate torte:

And I just couldn't go past the lemon tart:

And we accompanied the meal with a local bottle of Sangiovese. It was so so goooood...

And Chance loved all the extra cuddles he was getting too!

Chance and I are heading up to Brisbane for more cuddles from family and friends next Tuesday for a week. We're leaving Hubs behind unfortunately :-( but hopefully he can make it next time. My solo parenting trip to Melbourne was a bit of a practice run, and since that went so well, I'm quite confident about taking Chance on the plane on my own. Hopefully that confidence won't be challenged too much! See you in Brisbane if you're around!

Super Moon!

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Hubs and I have been trying to increase our activity levels as well as our social network, so when we were invited along to a moonlight walk with the Warby Range Bushwalkers Club over the weekend, we jumped at the offer! As many as you would know, there was a "supermoon" on Saturday, and we walked about 9km enjoying the view! We met lots of lovely people and had a great time chatting with new friends we invited along as well. Hubs carried Chance in our new ergo sling and he slept most of the time. (I'm glad Hubs did the carrying - we had a "weigh-in" yesterday and Chance has hit the 8.5kg mark! And he's only 4 months old!!)



One of the members of the walking group hosted us before and after the walk. Everyone (all 35 of us!) brought our own dinner and drinks and mingled before and after which was really lovely.


Hubs, Wifey and Chanbe at the start of the walk:

The route we took:

We had a really super time and look forward to the next walk!

Chanbe's new trick

Bath time!

Monday, March 21, 2011

(A couple of super cute photos to distract you while I actually write a post with more than 30 words in it...)