October 2013

Here's an idea of what we were up to way back in October 2013!

We started planning Augie's birthday party and sending out the invites.  We'd only had a small family celebration the last couple of years.  This year, since he has a few little friends from Asilo (day care), we decided to have a proper party.  We ended up with an invites list that included about 40 adults and 31 kids.  Imagine our suprise when nearly all of them RSVPed that they could make it!  Luckily we had scheduled the party for a local park and didn't have to manage the frightful logistics of hosting 31 3-year-olds in our house! 

He started carrying his own backpack into Asilo. 

We spent some time at the beach.  He doesn't so much as dip a toe in the water but is very happy to move sand around with his dump truck, bucket and spade.

One of our favourite books during October was Beauty and the Beast.  In part because Mick does a fantastic 'beast voice'. 

One one trip to Cottesloe Beach with Dad we did manage to get wet although this was mostly by accident. 

Watching the miniature trains at the WA Railway Museum (a favourite haunt).  Note that he is wearing his 'train hat'.  This hat is worn whenever we ride the train into the city, the Castledare Miniature Railway or whenever we go to the WA Train Museum.

A happy Augie at the Train Museum.

Here he is being a train on top of a retaining wall (which was most definitely a train track) in Kings Park.  In case you haven't guessed by now....trains are the new bin trucks.

The Indian Pacific train travels between Perth and Sydney every week.  The terminal for the Indian Pacific in Perth is the East Perth train station, which is not far from our house and which we pass by every time we drive into the city for something.  Augie has made an absolute sport out of observing when the Indian Pacific is in Perth - and, when it is, much excitement ensues.  We even have a square clothes basket that is now known as the Indian Pacific (it picks up the dirty clothes - passengers - and unloads them at the washing machine 'station').  Our round clothes basket is a boat and it never does clothes pickup runs whenever Augie is helping with laundry.

Funny faces while riding the Castledare Miniature Railway (note the wearing of the 'train hat'). 

Augie preferred to do his wees outside and it always helped if he had something to aim at - Mick called them 'piddle sticks' and put a few around our backyard to encourage Augie during his toilet training.  Here Augie has gone out and found himself a 'piddle stick'.  This video reminded me of the crazy Staffy dogs (Staffordshire Terriers) at the beach who are always trying to fetch a stick that is 6x the size of themselves.

Wearing Mick's hat in the truck one day.

Augie developed a fondness for riding his bike to either the gazebo or the park benches on the local bike paths to 'watch the world go by'.  Augie typically has two laments during this activity: 1) there is not enough world going by and 2) the world is not going by fast enough.  And this, folks, tidily sums up this kid's personality from about Day 1 of his existence....

He took a liking to walking around in my Ugg Boots.  And sometimes nothing else.

Mick did a Tough Mudder event with a few of his friends (L to R in this photo are: Brett, Mick, Jeff and Bjorn)

A few crayfish on the BBQ for the Tough Mudder team that evening!

Augie also liked wearing my hot pink Crocs whenever we were out in the garden.  He mostly liked wearing them on the wrong feet.  He loved eating the peas straight off the vine so much that we ended up with no peas ever making it into the house for meals!

He's still a big fan of the babycino.

During October, he wasn't a huge fan of having a poo.  He refused to do them on the toilet and would even hold them in for a few days before doing them in a nappy/diaper.  This is the whingey/whiney 'poo dance' we'd get when he was losing the battle with holding it in.  We'd have days of grumpiness and misery just avoiding a poo.  It was horrid!

Riding bikes with his little friend Jasper.

An Easter basket hat while waiting our turn at the blood testing lab.

Augie freqently gets a 'rat run' when playing on playgrounds.  He'll do the same path over and over again.  This was his rat run at the Bunnings (think Home Depot if you're reading from North America) playground one day...until he saw me filming him and then he had to come over to check himself out.

This photo was taken from our master bedroom balcony looking directly across the street at our neighbours Greg and Linda.  Augie went over one Saturday afternoon to help them plant their rose garden.

He does really like gardening of all types and here he is at one of his favourite activities, weeding the lawn.  Unfortunately the grass makes him a bit itchy so we don't spend too much time on the lawn before we feel a bit miserable.