Stuff About Harriet

Well, although the Internet connection at our place is still dead, that doesn't actually prevent me from writing an entry in the blog about Harriet. But no pictures, unfortunately, it's logistically and legally difficult from work. Because this is being written by me, it's nowhere near as humourous as Cass would make it!

Harriet has passed the 7 month mark. Last week Harry and Cass visited the community health nurse, where Harriet weighed in at 9.8kgs and measured 74cm long/tall. This puts her well above the 97th percentile for both height and weight, which should be no real surprise to anyone.

She has also decided to try to crawl - she's one or two weeks away from making her first real movements. This morning she appeared to work out how to crawl backwards very slowly, so all she needs to do is reverse the movement and get a little more speed up. Hand-eye co-ordination has also improved - playing with toys is becoming a much more fun and long lasting experience for her.

She has another tooth, the one to the left of her two bottom teeth. The corresponding one is not showing much sign of appearing, so she might have a good quality lop-sided grin for some time to come. Her grandpa noticed the other day that Harry's right canine appears to be near the surface, which if it comes out soon will make her smile rather comical.

Also, due to the impending move Cass has finished working at Morley Vetcentre.

Last weekend we didn't have to do any work on the house, or even get it ready for an open house. This left us with not much to do, so we took Harry to her Nana and Grandpa's house, dropped her off and went to the movies. Nana was pretty happy with this as she hasn't spent much time with Harry lately (not since Cass has finished work) and we were happy to have time to ourselves. So what did we do by ourselves on a fine sunny day? Went to the movies. Twice. ("A History of Violence" and "Inside Man" - both good but not awesome). Wicked stuff. All you Sydney based aunties better get ready for your turn at doing this - in fact, anyone up for some babysitting on June 9th? We're off to see Split Enz at the Entertainment Centre in Sydney.

I've quit my job, the house has been sold and the settlement has little to no chance of falling through, so we'll definitely be in Sydney in early May (at the latest - still trying to get an earlier settlement on the house). See all you Sydneysiders soon!

According to Telstra, our Internet connection will be back up later this week or on the weekend so Cass will no doubt provide a long post with lost more information than that sometime soon.

Telstra: Still Evil

It's been a comedy of errors with Telstra, I've lodged a formal complaint with them so hopefully they will fix the phone line sometime next week and the ADSL will finally get reconnected... Stay tuned...

Sydney - Here We Come

Well, we sold the house - got a pretty good price - so we're headed back to Sydney. We expect to settle the house on the 2nd of May, so we'll be in Sydney the day after or thereabouts... You could safely say that we're looking forward to it.

Preparations are being hampered, however, by the continuing lack of a home internet connection. At this stage it looks to be next week or so until we get the connection back, so don't expect to see much updating of the blog between now and then :(

Internet Connection: Dead

Just to let you all know - there are some houses being built on our street. As part of that, the builders apparently thought it a good idea to cut our phone line. That means that both our phone and our ADSL connection no longer work - this is why the blog hasn't been updated. But stay tuned, we'll be back in the next couple of days with an updated entry!

Rest assured that Casso is having serious withdrawal symptoms from EB, TVR and the blog!

I'd better run before I get in trouble for blogging from my work computer...