my-speck » beach http://www.my-speck.com i'm pregnant and it's going to be a rollercoaster Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:48:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Lovely Days http://www.my-speck.com/2010/09/17/lovely-days/ http://www.my-speck.com/2010/09/17/lovely-days/#comments Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:24:49 +0000 rakster http://www.my-speck.com/?p=2034 Related posts on My-Speck you might also like to read:
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]]> Hello Little Pumpkin,

well. We’ve had an absolutely fantastic week. You’re over the cold you’ve had for 8 weeks except for a bit of a runny nose, and you wake up every morning and run about the house laughing and playing and giggling and riding your bike and reading and eating and just being full of energy and HAPPY in general.

Our week – morning adventures

I savour our Tuesday mornings, when we get on the bike and ride off to Pilates. We look at stuff along the way, have a chat, and generally enjoy ourselves. It is fun. And today, Thursdays, are pool mornings. We get up and out of the house early, do a swimming lesson, then have a second breakfast as you toddle around the gorgeous big grounds of the pool. They have a fantastic trampoline, which you delight in jumping on (only when there are no big kids really jumping). And then you toddle around looking at the flags fluttering in the wind, the birds in the trees and the other kids swimming and the like.

Trampolining at the pool: 15 months

rocking the jumping on the trampoline at 15 months.

Swimming

So: swimming. You are progressing slowing but surely. You’re now up to going underwater for about 3-4 seconds when you’re chasing a plastic fish that we’ve thrown out in front of you. And while you don’t blow bubbles consistently, you’re getting there. At the moment you’re in a small class of only 3 other toddlers, as we’re just coming out of winter, so the class has been small, but I expect it will swell in the coming weeks. Anyway, it is a nice class and the three of you in it all just giggled and laughed and threw yourselves into the water, over the mats you climb on, into to bubble-blowing etc with abandon today.

Holidays

Other news is that we went to visit P&J&H last weekend down in Bangalow.  It was an amazingly lovely weekend, and I’m so glad we finally got away.  Your made friends with Harper:

Making friends

Making friends: Harper & O (7 and 15 months)

and we had a few trips to the beach at Byron.

Beach Trip

snuggling after a swim at the beach with mum

snuggling after a swim with mum

Which you LOVED.  You know those kids that run head first into the water with gay abandon and come up spluttering and choking but laughing still?  Well, at present you’re one of those.  You got a huge shock the first time the undertow pulled you down and the first time a big wave knocked you off your feet (yes I was holding you in expectation of this happening), however you just had a ball! The water was still cold, so I dragged you out of the water and had to wrap you in two towels and snuggle on the beach for a good 20 minutes to warm you up after your swim both days, but you didn’t care.  You loved it!  You swam between your dad and I, we went under some big waves together and you came up looking startled but happy, and you generally crawled and walked around on the sand with glee.  And you got your first taste of lamington (you don’t get any sugar really yet, so it was a big deal). And you loved it.

a post-swim lamington at the beach. How Australian is that?!!

We had a very content, tired and chocolate-smeared baby afterwards.

Cuteness

So I still think you are still the cutest thing ever.  I got a photo of you sleeping this week as you are still so little in your cot:

So that was our week in a nutshell.

Lovely lovely lovely.

love mum

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]]> http://www.my-speck.com/2010/09/17/lovely-days/feed/ 0 Stradbroke Island – the pictorial http://www.my-speck.com/2010/06/08/stradbroke-island-the-pictorial/ http://www.my-speck.com/2010/06/08/stradbroke-island-the-pictorial/#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:24:58 +0000 rakster http://www.my-speck.com/?p=1736 Related posts on My-Speck you might also like to read:
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]]> Lovely lovely lovely.

an early rise on Saturday morning:

dawn - baby tracks in the sand

dawn - baby tracks in the sand

you enjoyed exploring and eating:

sand for breakfast

sand for breakfast

We went walking:

climbing over the headland

climbing over the headland with dad

walking

walking

And lunch at the beach:

Enjoying the beach

Enjoying the beach

the dad play-gym

the dad play-gym

mum and me

mum and me

Told you! A gorgeous weekend. Perfect weather. Big sandy playground.

:)

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]]> http://www.my-speck.com/2010/06/08/stradbroke-island-the-pictorial/feed/ 0 Eating? Yes. Sand. http://www.my-speck.com/2010/03/04/eating-yes-sand/ http://www.my-speck.com/2010/03/04/eating-yes-sand/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:21:48 +0000 rakster http://www.my-speck.com/?p=1476 Related posts on My-Speck you might also like to read:
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]]> Hi Poogie,

we went to the beach last weekend.  And you got your first sand eating experience.  It reminded me somewhat of G&K’s dog MoMo, who when you took her to the beach would eat sand and drink the water and then for the next while as you walked / ran along the beach the poor thing would wince and scrunch up her back as she pooed projectile-style salty water.

the baby eating sand

Sand-eating poogie. Yum Yum.

Thankfully you didn’t do that.  Just a bit of simple sand eating.  I didn’t notice sand-laden nappies, but I assume it was in there somewhere.  I don’t like to look THAT closely.

love mum

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]]> Good morning big Speck!

We left yesterday and are now here, sitting in the front awning of our tent, looking out over the trees with a hint of blue sea beyond. The bush turkeys are pecking around, hoping for some of the custard apple I am having for breakfast. It’s threatening to shower again – it rained most of last night, thankfully starting in earnest only after we’d managed to get the tent up and had just sat down with a bowl of dinner.

It is a bit of a sodden mess around the tent but the beach is beckoning and I’m going to go for a walk after I’ve lazed about some more. and guess what? That means that you’re going for a walk on the beach too!

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]]> http://www.my-speck.com/2009/05/09/camping-hurrah/feed/ 0 First swim http://www.my-speck.com/2008/11/09/first-swim/ http://www.my-speck.com/2008/11/09/first-swim/#comments Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:23:38 +0000 rakster http://www.my-speck.com/?p=71 Related posts on My-Speck you might also like to read:
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]]> Heya Speck,

first swim for you today. We went to Coogee this morning for a dip cause the weather was beautiful. The beach was full of thousands of surf lifesavers, but it was still fun – had a bit of a swim, the water was cool but not freezing, and we floated out on the waves for a while. I was feeling pretty crappy last night: sick, tired and just erk, so it was fantastic today. The water was a nice clear blue green colour and it just felt good.

Hope you enjoyed it!

love mum

ps your grandad just rang and he says that you have much less than a 1/4 chance of falling out, its more like 16%. He quoted statistics at me to make me feel less worried, i think. So good for him, and good news for you !

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