Soooo, I've been a mum for 6 months now, and gosh, how time just seems to fly when you're not sleeping enough!
I swear I've aged 10 years since.
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| I've yet to make a few more to complete the fleet. |
Little B is no longer the little dumpling he was 6 months ago, but is now mummy's little sticky koala. He's a cheeky fella with a ready grin and restless hands, and doesn't take mummy's "NOOOOO!!!!" seriously.
In fact, he'll chuckle and think it's one of mummy's sound effects. (I do a pretty impressive clucking hen and yapping puppy!)
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| Not impressed with the toy mummy made for him. |
I wish I could proudly say that it has been a breeze but we all know that it would be a terrible lie. I struggle with putting him down for his naps and bedtime - bedtime is a constant battle as he often screams and wails. I amuse myself by singing "The End Of The World" which puzzles him. Hehe. I find it amusing because I suspect he thinks being left in his cot to sleep is equivalent to a death sentence and it really is the end of the world.
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| Fell asleep after mummy refused to entertain his wails. Yes!!! But only a half hour nap, though. Booooo! |
And when he finally sleeps, I rejoice!
And then comes the dilemma: do I catch a few winks, too, or get on with my chores?
Bugger.
Such is my daily struggle. :)
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| Hiking the Northern Range track at You Yangs Regional Park. |
We try to go for a hike every weekend so the parents can get some exercise in and also expose him to the outdoors where he'll be spending a good chunk of his childhood. Unfortunately there are a lot of flies and mozzies now that the warm weather is here.
Poor bub gets so bored on the trails that he tends to take a nap while mummy will huff and puff up the incline.
So far, there hasn't a need for me to feed him on the trails. Thank goodness for that!
I'm going to talk about something else besides my little bub now, lest I end up rambling about him. (Let's hope he'll continue napping until I finish writing this post!)
This is our neighbour's plum tree. Every time I step outside into our backyard, these fruits stare at me so invitingly that I wished one of its branches was leaning over to our side so I could pluck them. I found a fallen fruit in our yard that day and we tasted it. It was decently sweet, not sour at all. Lucky neighbour!
This is one of our blueberry plants. It was exciting for a while to see them turning ripe, until I realised how I had to check on them on daily basis to know when they were ripe enough to be plucked.
I guess that's the reason why they cost quite a bit as you need tons of plants to yield enough blueberries to fill a punnet!
One of the herbs we have been trying to grow since 2 years ago is the coriander/cilantro. We bought 2 or 3 punnets from Bunnings a few times and every time they'd struggle and just die.
Then the hubs decided that he'd try and grow them from the roots of store bought ones. They flourished for a while, grew seeds and flowers, and died.
The ones pictured here are from those seeds. It turned out to be a pleasant surprise as we really didn't expect them to find its way into our vegetable patch!
We're now waiting for it to 'pass on' for the next generation. I've even chucked some cuttings onto our nature strip in front of our house to see if they'll shoot up next year. :P
We grew some curly kale from a packet of seeds and we didn't expect them to grow so well. I lost interest in them when I realised that stupid aphids loved kale - they're a pain to clean off the leaves prior to cooking and consumption!
Not only that, we had a short stint of caterpillars happily leaving lots of holes in the young juicy leaves. The hubs had to check the plants regularly and 'dismantle' the caterpillars from the leaves and give them a new home some place else. :P
We are excited that our persimmon tree is fruiting!
It's still struggling to be a very healthy tree so we're obliged to give it tons of TLC and pray its fruits will stay with us until they're ripe.
Gosh, gardening is a tough job.
It's a pretty Aussie thing to do, I suppose, to have a vege patch. It does gives a topic of conversation to have with like-minded friends. :D
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My post from our trip to New Zealand last December is still in draft!
Tsk tsk.
It's going to be another new year by the time it's ready.
I hope not!
