A sunny day

Harrison is quite a bit brighter now, and it was a stunning warm winters day yesterday in Perth, so we decided to take advantage of the weather. Simon was on duty at the UWA Open Day, so H and I went to visit. Highlight of the trip was H getting a helium balloon from the guy at the student union stand. It's amazing to see the unadulterated pleasure a 2 year old gets out of having a balloon tied to his wrist and watching it bounce up and down and float in the breeze. We also had lunch with Mel and Tim - old friends of Simon's who've just moved to Perth. They live only a couple of minutes from us, and Tim works at UWA. We ran into them, as you do, in the car park at Karrinyup shopping centre a couple of weeks ago.

Pneumonia

News today is that Harrison has a bit of asthma as well as pneumonia... He had a chest x-ray yesterday, and is not a well boy. One of his lungs is a little collapsed. Poor little thing is mostly sleeping and coughing. Hardly eating at all. We had him in our room in his port-a-cot last night, behaving like new parents and listening intently to his breathing. He's a little trojan though - he is happy to hold the mask of the ventolin thing to his face and breathe in and out for me. I think he's intrigued by the contraption. Isn't so thrilled by taking medicine though. Simon is looking after him this afternoon, and will stay home with him on Friday as well. H goes back to the doctor tomorrow.

"I don't like it very much"

Funny thing happened yesterday while I was at Kings Park with Harrison and Simon's mum. For some reason Harrison started putting his forearm in his mouth and biting his own arm. We got in the car and started driving home, and this voice from the back seat said "I don't like it very much". We asked what he didn't like, and he said "I don't like eating my arm.". We burst out laughing, only to hear Harrison insist "I'm not funny!"....

Mum's going back to Toowoomba today, so it's a sad day for us. We did have a lovely time with her, and finished last night with fish and chips at Cicerellos in Fremantle, which was a favourite haunt of Dad's.

Valley Road

We've been in the new house a week now, and, although there's lots of cleaning up and sorting out still to do, we're very happy there. I think it will really suit our lifestyle. We tried out the local fish and chips last night (thumbs up), and the cafe at the local shops on moving day last week (double thumbs up). Yesterday I babysat Harrison's friend Rhys for the morning, and Mum and I took the two toddlers down to our closest park, which is only 300 metres or so away. They had a lovely time.

On Thursday night we drove for about 3 minutes up to Rendezvous Obseration City at Scarborough and had a night away. Mum looked after H for the night. We drank a lot of champagne, had a gorgeous dinner at Savanaghs, and generally had a fabulous night. It was the first time we'd both left Harrison overnight. He didn't seem to blink an eye (grandma is much more popular with him than either of his parents).

It was a good day for everyone on Thursday, as Harrison went to the Dorothy the Dinosaur Dance Party (the Wiggles minus the Wiggles). He was completely overawed for a while, but he did eventually get into the groove and danced his little heart out in the mosh pit. Best of all, we bought him a "big red car" afterwards. It's a small soft one that now goes everywhere with him - even to bed.