We headed down to the coast for a drive as we had a brand new X3 for the weekend courtesy of our good friends down at Brisbane BMW. It had only done about 50km before I got to defile it :)
Since it was such a nice day Grayson and I decided to have a quick dip in the pool at dad and Karen's place. Not too sure at first but seemed to come around in the end. If we decide to buy the house at Alderly then he will have his own pool to frolic in. But you know how auctions are....the bidding might get out of control in which case we will bow out and keep looking.
Tuesday, November 27
Monday, November 26
Schmap!!
What is Schmapp you ask? Well I had to look it up as well but it turns out it is an online tourist guide of sorts telling visitors where the cool places to hang out are. I found this out recently when I got an email from them wanting to use one of my Flickr photos for their latest guide. So you can now check it out too here. On the top right there are a few photos of the Belgian Beer Bar and you can click the arrow to see mine.
Saturday, November 17
Noosa updates - aka the dangers of co-sleeping...
Hello from Grayson - and if I sound a bit sillier than usual it is because I am febrile (39.8!) and am under the influence of medications - such as panadol and nurofen - not to mention mummy might be a little mad at me....
It all started when Daddy had to go back home to Brisbane, JUST after we had arrived in Noosa (or so it seemed). Something about an exam I think. That left me and the mother unit to our own devices Thursday night. I did all the usual things, dinner, a couple of tunes at the piano bar and then went to bed. Sounds quite innocent at the moment doesn't it. At about 11pm I woke up and felt REALLY sick and may have turned over and may have puked up all my dinner and squishey and dessert all over mummy - who was fast asleep in bed with me.
Well, she was pretty good about it all - particularly with all that sticky stuff in her hair and everything. She and I had a nice warm shower (after which I may have been sick again, and I wont mention the stuff that came out the other end) and we hopped into the other bed - which wasn't QUITE as good as the first one, but it was a lot cleaner. Mummy may have muttered something about not having another pair of pyjamas so she ended up wearing one of the hotel robes (which were a bit scratchy to cuddle against ). I was feeling a little bit FRAGILE after all of this and did spend the rest of the night needing mummy cuddles and a bit of constant reassurance.... Not to mention another bottle or two as well - Hey my tummy was EMPTY!
Mummy didn't look her nice self in the morning - but I am smart enough not to say anything (Daddy has taught me a lot about this sort of stuff already) as she was a bit grumpy too....
So!
Last night I stayed with grandma and grandpa as the parents were going out to some swish restaurant (Berardos) - I was a TAD miffed - why couldn't my bugaboo fit in there hmm? I didn't sleep too much as I was a bit pooky about not going out and my mouth was really really sore (I think its another tooth - or as I am known to say these days... "Oh oh!")
But I digress.
Today things picked up a bit as mummy had FINALLY finished at that conference thing and the three of us went out for lunch, then for some ice-cream and I managed to score a nice blue spade and orange bucket - which I put to good use as the montage on flickr shows.
Off to sleep for me now - over and out from Grayson "Danger Mouse" Cook.
As to the meaning of that.... well, I will let the parental units explain that in another blog entry.
MWAH!
It all started when Daddy had to go back home to Brisbane, JUST after we had arrived in Noosa (or so it seemed). Something about an exam I think. That left me and the mother unit to our own devices Thursday night. I did all the usual things, dinner, a couple of tunes at the piano bar and then went to bed. Sounds quite innocent at the moment doesn't it. At about 11pm I woke up and felt REALLY sick and may have turned over and may have puked up all my dinner and squishey and dessert all over mummy - who was fast asleep in bed with me.
Well, she was pretty good about it all - particularly with all that sticky stuff in her hair and everything. She and I had a nice warm shower (after which I may have been sick again, and I wont mention the stuff that came out the other end) and we hopped into the other bed - which wasn't QUITE as good as the first one, but it was a lot cleaner. Mummy may have muttered something about not having another pair of pyjamas so she ended up wearing one of the hotel robes (which were a bit scratchy to cuddle against ). I was feeling a little bit FRAGILE after all of this and did spend the rest of the night needing mummy cuddles and a bit of constant reassurance.... Not to mention another bottle or two as well - Hey my tummy was EMPTY!
Mummy didn't look her nice self in the morning - but I am smart enough not to say anything (Daddy has taught me a lot about this sort of stuff already) as she was a bit grumpy too....
So!
Last night I stayed with grandma and grandpa as the parents were going out to some swish restaurant (Berardos) - I was a TAD miffed - why couldn't my bugaboo fit in there hmm? I didn't sleep too much as I was a bit pooky about not going out and my mouth was really really sore (I think its another tooth - or as I am known to say these days... "Oh oh!")
But I digress.
Today things picked up a bit as mummy had FINALLY finished at that conference thing and the three of us went out for lunch, then for some ice-cream and I managed to score a nice blue spade and orange bucket - which I put to good use as the montage on flickr shows.
Off to sleep for me now - over and out from Grayson "Danger Mouse" Cook.
As to the meaning of that.... well, I will let the parental units explain that in another blog entry.
MWAH!
Thursday, November 15
UQ feel for home exam
I had to sit an online exam for my masters yesterday so to make it feel more like the uni exams that I have come to know and love I decided to add that authentic flavour with a blackboard telling me the start and finish times. The only thing missing was the little old lady that used to remind us not to have any illegal materials in the exam room (she was a medical school exam institution!). This was supposed to be a closed book exam but they obviously had to rely on us to do the right thing here as I had internet access to a world of information at my fingertips. At least they had a sneaky way to see if it was actually me sitting the exam. About half way into the exam one of the questions was "what is your date of birth?". I guess at least I got one right!
Later in the day we headed up to Noosa for Mel's conference and are staying at the Sheraton. I will post some photos of our stay over the next few days. I have to go back down for a "real" UQ exam tomorrow morning.
Later in the day we headed up to Noosa for Mel's conference and are staying at the Sheraton. I will post some photos of our stay over the next few days. I have to go back down for a "real" UQ exam tomorrow morning.
Sunday, November 11
Grayson becomes one with the monkey!
Last night was G's first night away from both mummy and daddy. He stayed at Mel's parent's place so we could have a night out and a sleep in the next morning. Nothing too outrageous....just a film at Centro (Death at a Funeral) and then home really. We did have a few Louis Roederers before the film so that made it more of a night out. The film was recommended by Sebastian and it didn't disappoint as it was quite humerous.
Later that night our plan of an uninterrupted sleep was rudely sabotaged by some lower class tart, apparently acquainted with the neighbours......yes, those noisey ones who like Shannon Noll in the early hours.......who kept ringing our intercom at 3am but would not answer. Finally I had to go down to stop the intrusion on our peace and she gave some lame arse excuse about trying to get in to see her brother (the neighbour) who was obviously out or decided he didn't want to see her that night and therefore was not answering his intercom. The slack b@*# didn't even apologise for waking the complex (we weren't the only unit she had been buzzing). Probably on some form of medication I would say and not the stuff that I usually prescribe.
Anyway putting all that behind us and managing a sleep in until nearly 7am!!!, we decided to go get the boy. We then headed for Manx, one of the restaurants at the Portside district and had a nice lunch. The photo is of G getting rather familiar with his monkey while waiting for the pre-dinner bread to arrive.
Tonight we are off to see Will Anderson at the Powerhouse and we are inflicting Grayson on Riley for the night. Should be fun :)
Later that night our plan of an uninterrupted sleep was rudely sabotaged by some lower class tart, apparently acquainted with the neighbours......yes, those noisey ones who like Shannon Noll in the early hours.......who kept ringing our intercom at 3am but would not answer. Finally I had to go down to stop the intrusion on our peace and she gave some lame arse excuse about trying to get in to see her brother (the neighbour) who was obviously out or decided he didn't want to see her that night and therefore was not answering his intercom. The slack b@*# didn't even apologise for waking the complex (we weren't the only unit she had been buzzing). Probably on some form of medication I would say and not the stuff that I usually prescribe.
Anyway putting all that behind us and managing a sleep in until nearly 7am!!!, we decided to go get the boy. We then headed for Manx, one of the restaurants at the Portside district and had a nice lunch. The photo is of G getting rather familiar with his monkey while waiting for the pre-dinner bread to arrive.
Tonight we are off to see Will Anderson at the Powerhouse and we are inflicting Grayson on Riley for the night. Should be fun :)
Sunday, November 4
Point of no return!
Saturday afternoon was for playing in the park at New Farm. Grayson seems to have developed a penchant for the playground and especially the slippery slide and see-saw. We stayed long enough to enjoy some afternoon treats as the sun set (see other Flickr photos). Grayson was practising his walking lots and at one point became the subject matter for a photo shoot by a group of Asian tourists. Anyone would think they have never seen a baby walk before. Maybe it was just the slightly humourous waddle he had on the soft grass. Anyway, fun was had by all and all that walking served a purpose, tiring him out so he would sleep well at night :)
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