31 March 2010


Matai, Miro and Mummy walk into town -
Dodging fat heavy raindrops
And seagulls seeking sultanas -
To meet Daddy at work.

At the restaurant, Matai
Only wants cuddles from Daddy, not Miro!


30 March 2010


Matai watches the rain fall on bamboo
For the very first time...


29 March 2010


Every chance Miro gets
He's hauling Matai over to the trike...

A great honour, considering
Archie is allowed it only sometimes
And girls, not at all !




Today is also the day
We half-catch Matai's
First sweet smiles for Mummy...




28 March 2010


Matai and Daddy share a kiss
At Matt's birthday barbeque.


27 March 2010


After a morning of Grumps, pub food, and Ultimo Annual Festival
Everyone is tired, and relaxes the afternoon away
While outside a wind whips the eucalypt
And music and people's happy voices carry on the draft.


26 March 2010


Matai has a day where he suddenly realises
That the squeaky wheel gets oil
And starts to make real cries
In barter for constant cuddles.

Later, we go to Bondi Beach
But again, he spends it mostly in Arms.



25 March 2010


Nanny is Matai's current Family Favourite
And has given her a total of Six Smiles
Where everyone else is waiting for just one !

Mummy takes the camera out in an effort to grasp
One elusive smile in progress...

Matai buckles under the performance pressure!


24 March 2010

Like two little lovebirds
Matai and Miro cosy up on the lounge
Watching TV together.


23 March 2010


It's a day of little mishaps for the Littlest Maitre.

First, a gust of cheeky wind
Picks up the picnic rug corner at Wattalmolla,
Covering Matai in a fairy dusting of sand grit.

Later, his little hand goes walkabout
And ends up being stuck at the bottom
Of a King Island Dairy cooler bag,
Which isn't fun at all !



22 March 2010


Matai is delicate and deliberate with his hands

Commonly putting them into the position
That Mummy recognises as the Abhaya Mudra.

Buddha allegedly made this gesture immediately after achieving enlightenment
And in Sanskrit, represents fearlessness, protection and peace.



21 March 2010


A Sunday Art Adventure
Leads Matai through streets
Where forest bursts from factories
And streets are named Dick.


20 March 2010


After cake, and during chats in the warm park
Where Miro and Ayden squeal and scale stairs -
Splash each other in the sun...

Matai nestles into a set of boobies Not His Own
And examines Cat's soft breast.


19 March 2010


In Matai's increasing wakeful hours
He and Daddy share a discussion
Of forming little voices.


18 March 2010


Matai spends Shopping Thursday sleeping all day
And the promised "wakeful period" in the afternoon never comes.
But not to be deterred, Nanny bundles him up snug after cuddles
And the two spend the evening in the Bali Bed, watching television
And Matai still ~
Sleeping.


17 March 2010


Miro loves being close to Matai at every opportunity
And tries to show him the virtues of both Autos and the computer all at once!


16 March 2010


The paradox about Being Matai
Is that, while generally desperate to suck
Everything but Mummy tastes so bad !


15 March 2010


On a brilliant Sydney day with Autumn chill
Matai heads to Manly Dam
To sleep peacefully while ducks attempt lunch larceny

And later, to walk along the road to Sector 4
While Miro holds the pram side and sings and hops.


14 March 2010


After grunting and sighing all the way through Alice in Wonderland...

Matai comes home, and talks to his bright toys too.

(Today he also rolls for the very first time!)


13 March 2010


Matai loves best to stare at loved ones
With an intense I Love You face.


12 March 2010


Closely examining his bright new bumblebee~
Matai reaches out to touch the crinkly bits


11 March 2010


Matai secretly smiles in Grumps' arms


10 March 2010


While big brother Miro plays with his new cars
Matai is content to snuggle on Mummy's shoulder...


9 March 2010


Matai relaxes into his daily bath.


8 March 2010


This morning we catch Matai
Mesmerised -
By his slowly rotating fist.


7 March 2010


This morning, before his bath
Mummy brought Matai into bed with the family
Where they fell asleep facing each other.

A little while later, when Mummy had fallen asleep,
She awoke to feel Matai's little nose pressing against hers
And opening her eyes, saw his face in a peaceful sleeping smile
While, like an Eskimo kiss, he left his nose there.


6 March 2010


Matai and Mummy share a warm misty shower.


5 March 2010


In raindrop weather, Matai sleeps through pram-push
Cuddles and pizza restaurants


4 March 2010


Matai strips down for cuddles with Grumps
And is so snug that he barely lifts an eyelid...


3 March 2010


After Mum's Group in Jubilee Park
And a trip to Nandos with Aunty Juwee
The boys fall asleep together in their red broom broom pram.


2 March 2010


Matai, on his Two Week Birthday,
Walks his newborn baby reflex

(Much as he'd prefer to be sleeping the day away !)


1 March 2010


In the muggy house, on his first rainy day
Where the wet pours down in streams from the bamboo

Matai tries to make head or tail of Stevee


28 February 2010


Matai has a tummyache from eating too much
But like a Xmas duckling, slowly gets chubbier