Proper Post Soon

Hi All - Well we're still on a dial-up connection so I haven't had a chance to do a proper post yet. Also the cord for the camera is still hiding so we can't upload photos until we find it. Boo. But in some shorthand news, Harriet has all eight of her incisors, refuses to sit anymore and must be standing at all times. Her favourite game is to walk everywhere with support from Mama or Papa and standing on her own has graduated from being almost nonexistent to solid for around a few seconds. She loves to walk from the lounge room into the bath to see if there is any water in the bath. When she gets there and there isn't anything in the bath she stands looking down wistfully into the tub for a few seconds and then sighs and turns around to go back into the lounge room and play blocks.

When we go to a cafe lately she loves to eat chunks of our bread, mushrooms with tomato relish and generally make a huge mess. She has her own little booster seat so she can sit up and use the table, it's very cute. She is also justgenerally more like al ittle person and responds to certain words showing us that she understands them (like 'food' and 'indian' [we play a game called indian] and 'splash splash' and 'water'). On Monday mornings she has been going to swimming lessons in the city and in the same class there are babies that are around 13mths old. She is bigger than all of them! *gulp* Big baby alert! Plus she goes OFF in the water, she loves it so much. She swims underwater with gusto and whacks her arms in the water splashing everyone in the near vicinity. There's a little game where the babies swim underwater and have to aim for a toy that the instructor is holding. Harriet did it on her first go and the two girls who were the instructors were so amazed it was pretty funny to see.

Anyway I don't have much more to say since there aren't any photos to support the boring text and being on dial-up is excrutiating. So will see you all soon when we move into our house and organise broadband. Yay!

A New Sydneysider

Harriet has now joined the ranks of the east coast brigade! The flight over went really well, which was a relief considering how squealy she was in the departure lounge before we left. We had given her a few doses of the Brauer 'Calm' which appeared to work a treat because she was so calm that she fell asleep for three-quarters of the flight!

We're now staying in Medina Appts in Chippendale - the room is really lovely, has a full kitchen, lounge room, full-sized bath and even a little garden/balcony area. Just a short walk to King Street Newtown and Broadway Shopping Centre which is handy for everyone.

In fact we had to head off to Broadway this morning because Harriet woke up with a rash all over her torso. It wasn't bothering her and she hadn't had any new foods, used any new detergents or body washes or anything, and had no fever. All the same what with the recent measles outbreak and everything we thought better safe than sorry and took her up to Broadway for her first check-up with the doctor. He was a lovely guy and seemed surprised that this was the first time Harriet had been to see a doctor for something other than her vaccinations. All was fine, just a viral thing and by later on tonight it was very faded and she hasn't had any real signs of being upset other than wanting to have more breastfeeding than normal.

In other exciting news we bought a new stroller today - a Quinny 'Buzz' in purple. Our old one was so, SO bad because it was difficult to manouvere especially when it had Harriet facing us. Since she gets upset if we're not facing her we definitely needed to get a reversible stroller, and this one totally rocks. Although the wheels are big so it feels as though it has a bigger footprint than our old four wheeler, in actual fact it is the same size and actually folds down a lot better than our old one. Yay!

Well since we can't connect up the photos in the camera to this old laptop just yet photos of Miss Harry on the plane and meeting up with her Aunt Kristy will have to wait. But you can bet your booty that they'll be up here ready for perusal and adoration as soon as is humanly possible.