2008-2009

for the past couple of weeks we've either not been near ready internet access or i've not been motivated to write. it's been a very tiring few weeks, not to mention a confirmation of why i dislike christmas. never mind- percy loves life and thru her you can't help but see it all with a bit of a sparkle too. (is it wrong to already live vicariously thru my daughter?)

once again percy scooped the pool at christmas in terms of presents. she even ran out of steam on opening them. because we had two christmases with each set of grandparents percy spread out her present opening over five days! lucky chook! she now has a lovely new haul of dinosaurs, a mega-sketcher, horsies, a tonka truck big enough to sit in, books, clothes, baby dolls and i'm sure other things i can't think of just now.

percy is becoming an adept car traveller too. we drove to wollongong on 23rd dec which was easy, she's done that trip heaps of times. then on the nite of the 26th we left wollongong at 5pm for the 9 hour drive to wellingrove. the plan was that percy would sleep the whole way. which she mostly did! she didn't fall asleep until 9pm but was out of it for nearly the rest of the way. we arrived around 2:30am and transferred her successfully to a waiting cot. on 1st jan we drove 4.5 hours to coffs harbour. it took that long because we stopped for food, fuel, to look at waterfalls and to coordinate what we were doing with my brother and his family who had also decided to come to coffs. percy got a bit whingey towards the end of this trip because she was awake the whole way. still she only cried a little and was happy once we checked into the hotel. on the 4th we left coffs harbour at 4am thinking we might get ahead of all the returning holiday traffic. again percy slept nearly the whole six and half hours it took to get home. we didn't get any traffic, thankfully, just lots of road works speed limited to 80kmph, oh well.

the last three days percy and i have been at home together- mostly hiding in the air conditioning as it's been too hot for out door activities. she's made some fantastic new leaps in language and understanding too. details, and photos of the 'holiday' period to come...