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One thing I have quite forgotten to mention is that Elliot had his first “solid” food yesterday!  A bit of baby rice was all it was but by today, and his second crack at it, he seems to have gotten the hang of swallowing food.

Poor wee Max was doing so well until this evening!  He had been in the same pair of underpants all day today and that even included going out for an hour and a half this morning too! It had got to about 18:00, Max had finished his dinner and was starting to fade (we’ve been up since 05:00, Max and I) when the first accident happened. He was standing in the family room and looked down to find himself standing in a puddle…… he was so upset about it and bawled his eyes out while I stripped his bottoms off and cleaned up the floor. We’d just finished all that and put new clothes on when he said that he’d popped (our word for farting) and then his expression changed to one of horror as he said “too late Mummy, too late” and burst into tears again.  By this stage he was starting to get clumsy-tired and so it was off upstairs to bed.

All in all we are very pleased with the way things have gone and are so proud of our little man

OK, so we’re 7 hours into Max’s first day wearing underpants and so far it’s gone really well (touch wood!)

He’s sat on his potty about 12 times this morning and peed about 10 times, done a small poo once and done a massive, adult size crap once (I have pictures of course but, really, you don’t want to see them) Within about an hour or so he got to the stage where he would walk over to his potty, take his own underpants off and sit down.  All this and only one tiny accident where he didn’t quite make it and did a tiny dribble of pee in his underpants – I’ve peed myself more at really good comedy shows I’m sure of it!

I’m sure you’ll be hearing more……..

Here’s another shot taken by Max today at my Mum’s place with her camera.

A big day in Max’s life today – we decided to do away with nappies (diapers) during the day for him!  Here he is looking so proud of the first time in underpants

Vic and I have heard of various approaches to this matter and decided that a full-on, whole hog, deal with the accidents approach suited us best.  He’s gone to the toilet in the potty a few times now and is able to tell us when he’s going in his nappy so we thought what the hell. We’ve only started today and things so far are going OK.  We put him into underpants when we got home from going out today so it’s only been a couple of hours but he’s done really well and I’m very proud of him.  We cleared the rugs out of the family room and will try to keep him on the easy to clean laminate flooring for a couple of days but already twice he’s asked to use the potty and has peed both times – yay!

I gave Max the digital camera for the first time the other day which was slightly nerve wracking.  The boy has a knack I can tell you that!  This was the first time he had held a camera and about 70% of the shots had a subject centered (I’ll wait until he’s three before I explain the rule of thirds )

Here’s us snapping each other…….

Another week over and not a lot to show for it (not even a working Government!)

I eventually got down to Christchurch on Thursday and even then I had my doubts – when we flew in the cloud cover looked to be down to about 1,000 feet.  I’m not sure exactly what it was but we only descended into clear air about 20 seconds before we touched down!

On Saturday Vic and I did the whole democratic thing and voted in our national elections.  It was a nice day so we walked to our local polling booth which is about 30 minutes away and took Max for a play in the park on the way. We have had an MMP electoral system for the last fifteen years or so and yet again we have no clear winner on the night.  The two main parties were within a seat of each other and there will now be a month or so of bargaining and horse trading with the minor parties until one party or the other can form a majority coalition.  Oh joy……..

In other, more geeky, news I got Mac OSX running on a Dell laptop that I had at home.  It took about three days on and off but I now have it booting up normally with screen resolution and sound sorted out.  It looks really nice on a 1280×800 12.1” screen!  I’ll try soring out the network next (wired and wireless) and then look for some apps

The boys are well (nothing major to report) and we are getting some sleep so aren’t trying to kill each other

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