Fun and games for the rare minutes that Matai is awake today...
In Nanny's arms, and with Grumps and Miro and funny faces!
14 April 2010
...And gravitates to being safe from Miro
In his playpen, on the roll-friendly floor...
13 April 2010
Matai enjoys one of his last days
Watching his mobile
While safe from Miro
On top of the kitchen bench...
10 April 2010
Matai starts to open his Smile Allowance
And on the proviso that he is actually awake
Gives smiles to whoever asks, every day.
9 April 2010
This afternoon, Matai enjoys his first real playtime with Miro
(Under Mummy's watchful - but firmly excluded-from-the-bed eye!)
Which includes being properly introduced to Matchbox cars
And hugged and patted from all angles....
And sucking back !
8 April 2010
Another day where Matai sleeps almost constantly -
Save for when the "happy couple", Daney and Dale,
Decide to give him dodgy hugs!
7 April 2010
Matai socialises with Steve, Lucy and Lucy's Mum
Before deciding that all that night partying is too much for little boys
And politely requesting to be wrapped up, nounoued and put to bed.
6 April 2010
More and more, Matai rejects daytime Nounou
In favour of plain old fashioned cuddles, kisses, and
Walking around with him snugged into the side of Mummy's hip
So he can join in and watch the world.
5 April 2010
Trying to recreate the "Don' t mess with Grumps' mug" shot
Miro made famous at the same age,
Matai is the perfect model...
Miro, not so much !
4 April 2010
As big as Matai sometimes seems to be growing
His little face is still cocooned by his Grumps' hand.
3 April 2010
Matai sleeps fretfully through a visit to Lucas Cave
But after feeding, settles down for a solid 6 hours of dreaming...
2 April 2010
The family sets up camp at Newnes
In the lengthening shadows of glowing cliff-face
While bigger boys kick footballs, girls ride bikes,
And adults pull out beanies and pullovers
Starting little steamy fires that breathe smoke across the damp grass.
Meanwhile Miro practices being Two
Tripping over everything, and frequenting stormy tantrums
Where nounous come flying at Matai's head
Or dirty footsteps appear on his chair.
In the middle of it all, Matai sits like a Magi
And cools the chaos.
1 April 2010
During cuddles with Nanny
We count the cute little kissable rolls of fat
That are developing around Matai's neck
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!
29 March 2010
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!
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!)
12 March 2010
Closely examining his bright new bumblebee~
Matai reaches out to touch the crinkly bits
10 March 2010
While big brother Miro plays with his new cars
Matai is content to snuggle on Mummy's shoulder...
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.
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
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