Dangerous Nappy

With him able to control the DVD remote and whatever is played on our TV, i’ve come to realise that the child really is the man of the house. I’m just support staff.

Since he first muttered “rub”, we’ve been keeping record of the words said by ratty-man and the dates we heard them. This comes in handy when (say) you have a penchant for data. Below is the chart showing the number of new words learned (ie: he says them in context rather than just repeating us). [...]

I feel so sorry for the little guy right now – he has some kind of viral/bacterial infection which is causing him to have chronic diarrhea. The diarrhea alone is concerning, but the acidity of his stool is so strong that it’s literally burning and scoring his butt-cheeks to the point that they’re weeping. As [...]

i’ve said it many times before, but i’m always intrigued by the way Mr Boom-Boom’s brain works, and understands the world around him. He’s at an age where talking is become more fashionable, so he babbles. And although to us he’s just blabbing garbage, to him those words have meaning and he believes he’s using [...]

All week, i’ve been struggling to find a way to express this post, so im just going to come out and say what I want to say. When in the hell did my baby boy grow up? He’s only 18 months old, but i’m blown away by just how independent he is. He speaks close [...]

When a Rat undergoes surgery, there are a few people who hold their breaths. His mum and dad, for starters………everyone else is peripheral. Sitting your child on your lap, placing a breathing mask over his face, have him fight you and cry every step along the way, and then watching his eyes glaze over and [...]

Interesting thing about children growing up is that they seem to develop favourites from an early age. It swings from one to another more frequently than we’d prefer, but it happens nonetheless. Little Rat seems to have recently developed fondness for his dad, and he shows this fondness almost every single time he gets an [...]

I could easily provide excuses for my distinct lack of blogging, but why bother – you, dear reader, either don’t care, or you’re me in another 10 years in which case you’ll remember why its been a busy few months. (hint: sinuses, perforations, gall stones, houses, paw-licking, unemployemnt and over-working). Needless to say, the Son [...]

I mentioned earlier that The Walking Deathtrap has started saying a few words. Well it seems that in the last few days he’s taken a particular interest in talking and mimicking those around him. Example 1: No more monkeys jumping on the bed! There’s a nursery rhyme we sing to him when he comes into [...]

I mentioned in my last post that I was interstate doing work for what felt like forever. In that time, The Rat-Man has further developed his attachment to his mummy. So much so, that the sight of her walking out of the room is often enough to trigger a separation cry. No amount of “there, [...]