All's Well

Bayli has been going to day care for a few weeks now, two days a week. When we get there in the mornings she generally rushes up to the door, but just as she steps through she realises that we'll be leaving her there on her own. So then she starts to cry or clings to someones leg. She isn't all that happy when we leave, but apparently does pretty good during the day. The first few times we picked her up before nap time. Then we waited until after she'd woken up and she was lying in bed saying, "Mummy, daddy, mummy, daddy..." and started crying when we arrived. Last time she was eating afternoon tea though and smiled. Soon we'll be dragging her away.

She is now officially a big girl in a big girl's bed at home. When she's tired she says, "Sleepy," and goes in and climbs on the bed. And a couple of times she's climbed back out and knocked on the door (which is very cute). And once she fell out as well-- there was screaming and blood from a split lip. Books are still one of her favourite things and now Kel and I can actually stay on one page long enough to read the words. It's very exciting.

Bayli still loves going for walks around the yard at home and is always asking to go on the swing. And she can repeat just about any word she hears, which is great until someone swears. She also loves knocking on doors. All we need to do now is get her to say who it is when someone says, "Who's there."

I still haven't found work. Had a few interviews. Got to the final five with one job and may have another but it all seems very dodgy. (Unroadworthy motorbike for delivering mail, among other things.)

Unfortunately I haven't been using my spare time to do writing as often as I should. I've been doing a bit on The Brighest Light but not a lot. Would like to get it done by mid october to enter it in a competition but I don't like the odds.

I've signed up to play cricket with Stafford again. I checked out the local Woodford team but it was going to cost more money to play on concrete pitches. It'll be a fifty minute drive to home games at Stafford but I can get a lift with Ash (about half an hour away) if I want. It should all be fine. First game is this coming Sunday. That will be interesting.

Kel and I had our second anniversary last month and my parents and sister treated us to a night on Bribie Island (and looked after Bayli while we were gone). We had a cabin ovorlooking the water and a picnic hamper and Kel's parents paid for dinner and the petrol to get there. So thank you very much to everyone involved there. Especially Kel. It was great-- very relaxing and just what we need with another baby arriving shortly.

Speaking of which... Kel is doing well. She is doing lots of card making and is generally pretty busy with that and running around after Bayli. This pregnancy seems to be effecting her much less than the last one. Still no sign of the IC or the low blood pressure, which is great. There's only six weeks to go so it is all starting to get very real. Again. We've done a tour of the maternity ward at Caboolture hospital and it seems much better than Kingaroy. There will be two midwives with us this time, so they can read New Idea and Womans Day in shifts. It'll be great.

We have a double pram already, the trouble is, it takes up about 7/8ths of the boot. When we put a second baby seat in the back seat there won't be a lot of room for other stuff, like luggage or shopping or dogs or cricket gear, or whatever. We've been looking at buying something bigger than a Pulsar but can't really afford it at the moment.

Thats all for now.

Books and Bikes

I think I said in one of the previous posts about how two people rang about job interviews in the couple of days after I started working at Storey Electrical. Well, I forgot about it the other day, but the first day I was at Aus Post, madly sorting letters, someone rang and asked if I was still looking for work. Seriously. I hate it when that happens. Oh well. Speaking of work though, I have to go to Brisbane next month for some motor cycle training. Then soon after that I will be riding around Kingaroy learning some mail runs so if someone's sick I can fill in. That should be pretty cool.

Now, according to the experts the best way to get kids interested in reading is to have books around and be seen reading books. Kel, Bayli and I have proven this to be correct. We've always wanted to read to Bayli. We did it occasionally when she was little (littler than she is now) but it's a lot of work when they have an attention span of about 2 seconds then just start squirming and crying and tearing pages or... whatever. So we never did it all that much. But now... When Bayli goes to her toy box, more often than not a book is the first thing she pulls out. And she's started holding books out and whining until someone reads it for her. We were visiting Josh and Leanne the other day and they had some toys out for her. So of course, Bayli grabbed the only book and took it to Leanne (who she's seen about 3 times in her entire life) for her to read. Leanne started reading several times before getting caught up in the adult conversation... And each time Bayli took the book off her and gave it back so she could start again. It was great.

Of course it sucks that if Kel or I sit down with a book to read for five minutes, Bayli has to immediately forget what she was doing and come read with us... Arghhh... Oh well, shouldn't complain. I think I'd be devestated if she didn't like books and reading.