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You capture- Feet.

I have loved this weeks task, although it has been a bit of a challenge trying to capture a certain baby’s feet seeing as though they are always moving or wrapped up when he is alseep.

The feet of my two favourite people.

What most of my photos for this assignment look like.

 

 

 

Earth choice.

I don’t watch a lot of television, and when I do, normally I find the ads terrible, but every now and then one grabs you. 

Earth Choice

 

Mother and son.

 

 

Love.

 

Love and teething.

I have no idea if Otto is really teething, and I imagine I will only know for sure when those teeth pop to the surface, but for the sake of my mumma sanity I am blaming all the recent irritability and crying on those pesky teeth.

Thank goodness chewing does seem to help some of the time, we have been trying not to have Otto use the plastic teethers too much, but sometimes it seems that is all that helps.

 

The flying orchestra

Han, Otto and I went to a children’s book launch yesterday morning at the black cat in Paddington.  The lovely book ‘The Flying Orchestra’ is a first time novel written and illustrated by Clare Mcfadden who’s father taught me woodwork at school, such a small world.

The book is lovely and the illustrations include so many spots around Brisbane that I hope Otto will recognise and love as he grows older.  Right now we have put the book away until he is at the stage of not ripping the pages, we are pretty much a cardboard book household at the moment after a few sad mishaps with some treasured books.

Clare McFadden did a lovely reading complete with music to accompany the pages and Otto was enthralled with both the music and book which was lovely to see.

If you want to see and hear her reading the book with accompanying music, just follow this link.

Hope you all had a great weekend.

 

A sort of working mum.

So last week was my first shift back at the hospital working in the PACU (post anaesthetic care unit).  What a spin out that was, after eight months of concentrating 100% on our family here I was trying to concentrate 100% on each patients well-being.  My heart stays at home when I walk out the front door, but fear not, my compassion, empathy and brain stays with me.

Walking through the halls to work on a Friday afternoon I am met usually by the eerie emptiness of them, because who on earth would be walking to work when most people are walking to the pub to celebrate the weekend.

That of course doesn’t mean that when I get to the unit all is quiet, as last night proves that is often not the case, seriously who plays with a nail gun on a Friday night, only to have it operated on at midnight?

I live in hope that I might be able to get a few rows of my knitting done while waiting between cases if only one surgeon is operating.

But mostly I think of what is happening at home, if they are all sleeping, wondering how my little boy is going knowing that Mummy isn’t home.  Thankfully I only have to be away 3 times a fortnight, although I do wonder now what I say when people ask what I do for a living, part time nurse, full time mummy?

Thank goodness for decaf coffee so I can fool my brain into thinking it just got some of the real stuff!

 

You Capture- A moment.

I have really enjoyed this week’s challenge from you capture, probably because it wasn’t as hard as some of the others, but it was lovely to try to capture some of the everyday special moments that pass us by so fast.

A special moment for us happened just this afternoon, Otto discovered the world at his front door (lets not talk about the pumpkin all over his overalls!)

 

Could there be anything more gorgeous than a boys friendship with his dog?

 

And we are back…….

Finally things seem to be up and running here again.  But while I may have been absent from the blog things have really been happening in the household. 

We have graduated to this,

Eating solids

 

And been working hard on doing this,

Sitting!

 And most exciting of all, Otto is crawling, unfortunately I don’t have  a good in focus picture of that one because he is just too fast!  Hopefully we will be back for some more regular posting now that all the bugs are ironed out.

 

Sometimes you could just die from the cuteness……

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