School: Last week Grunge started in the 2-3 room at daycare last week, she’s 20 months We got her a new pillow and blanket especially for school and she’s been napping two sleep cycles which is awesome.  I love picking her up from school as she’s usually off doing something fun.  Today she was following the other kids on their way to the library at the school – complete with a fist full of chalk and last week I caught them just as they were leaving the music room.  Some days I would like to go to school

Language: Grunge talks, sometimes in full two word sentences   We were away in Sydney last week and I was putting her to bed and she looked at me and signed “Mia gone” – total heart breaker as it was just Grunge and I on a whirl wind visit.  When we arrived at the airport and she saw Em she got so very excited.

House: We’ve been doing stuff, moving stuff, installing stuff, it’s getting there Last step will be painting

*thinks* That’ll do

Things happen so quickly;  Grunge is now 20 months old, talking up a storm and totally amazing me daily.

This weekend Em and I went away to celebrate Em’s 30th birthday (which was in Janurary).  We flew to Melbourne, went to a conference for my business (yes, I’m hopeless!), watched the Billy Elliot musical, shopped for Grunge and went to Jamie Olivers restaurant fifteen for dinner – talk about exhausting!  Grunge stayed with her Princess Mish, Unki Baa and their kids and had a ball.  Mish sent us photos through the day and we couldn’t help laughing and wondering who had the most fun

Dinner at fifteen was awesome.  A friend of ours had told us it sucked and we considered just going for dessert however dinner was at 8pm and we were pretty hungry by then.  We both started with bruschetta, Em had pork for secondi and I had rottolo which was maybe the most awesome thing I’ve ever eaten.  We chose the selection plate for dessert which was a taste of each of the desserts on the menu.  Again, it was awesome.  We had some great adult conversation, watched the kitchen preparing meals, I indulged in some very potent adult pink lemonade and we had a very lovely waiter.

Grunge got very excited when we got home and was keen to show us the new trolley she’d gotten from her Aunty Jo and started insisting on me reading her a book.  Nothing changes

This week Grunge starts in the Toddler room at day care.  It’s pretty bittersweet as she was the youngest kid when the centre opened and is moving up a few months early.  They have sent up two of her best friends in hope that they’ll keep their little click.  My kid actually prefers running with two of the boys her own age – does that surprise you?

On Fridays Grunge and I head to music class, she thinks it’s fantastic.  There is a rhyme that we do there that involves a hammer and a saw and it’s got actions.  2 weeks ago Em had an operation and said to Grunge “Be gentle with Mia, she is sore” and Grunge looked purposefully at Mia and said “Saw” while doing a sawing action. Close.

And me, if we’ve spoken in the last month you’ll know what I’m up to – and if I’ve roped you in to helping… thank you

This week my sister is having surgery with Dr Charlie Teo – it’s keyhole neurosurgery to remove two of the four tumors in her brain.  He is pretty up himself which is exactly the sort of neurosurgeon I want to be operating on my sister;  he took her case when the local neurosurgeons wouldn’t.

I’m thinking my blog needs an update – bring on some inspiration