The list. And some other stuff.

Time for another update.

1. Go swimming with the kid. 
2. Collingwood Children's Farm. The plan is still to go here, but if we don't make it, I'm going to cut myself some slack and say that with a bebe goat (who has lost the sight in that eye, by the way), we kind of have our own children's farm.
3. Re-stock the wood pile at the farm.
4. RUN at least once a week. Ahem. Not such a great few weeks for this. But I'm back on the horse. Went yesterday, and I'm fucking unfit, but the pelvic floor issue is one hundred thousand times better. Which is huge relief. I think the goal now is to run the Great Ocean Road 14km event in May, and to be able to start training in earnest by the kid's birthday in Feb. You heard it here first.
5. Eat a lobster roll at Golden Fields.
6. Finish the Japan book. Hit a bit of a snag with this one... I decided halfway through that I thought a bigger sized book would be better, but the pics I had laid out as full-page images are too low-res to be used in the larger format. So. I guess it'll be a tiny brick of a memoir. And now that the first of the month has rolled around again and our internet is chugging along at a speed that doesn't make me want to set fire to the modem, I'll get back into it.
7. Family photos. Yay, there are some excellent shots. We went and spent a bazillion dollars on canvas enlargements, which 24 hours later I tried to downgrade to prints, but too late. What we are going to do with them I have no clue. We are not canvas enlargements people. Or at least we didn't used to be. But the parentals all came and ordered a couple of nice prints and I'm really glad we have some good ones of the three of us now. Still a couple of weeks until they arrive.
8. Plant some vegies (tomatoes, lettuce, carrots). The lettuces went great guns, and then the snails went great guns eating them. And the basil. Boo. Cup Day is supposed to be tomato planting time, and I'm on the hunt for grow bags to get them started. Carrots can bite me. But the mint is thriving!
9. Have people over for brunch. Success. And as usual, way too much food. But I was happy enough eating leftover bircher muesli and croissants and challah for a while afterwards. The kid was well-behaved, the pregnant lady scored some hand-me-downs, the engaged peeps got celebratory champagne and the boys left their dogs at home. A good time had by all.
10. Eat some sourdough from Firebrand.
11. Date night x 1, 2, 3.
12. Frame the kid's birth certificate.
13. Have a massage.
14. Take the kid to the beach.
15. Be able to run around the Tan by NYE!

Other things...
We scored big at the Oxfam Eltham second-hand bookstall. Almost every weekend as we head out to the farm, we peer down the driveway of the hall and wonder if it's book weekend. We'd had a big morning and were hoping the kid would fall asleep on the drive, but there was no turning back once we realised it was on. It has never disappointed, and this year was no different. $1 each! I think we found more there in about 15 minutes than we did the whole day in a town full of booksellers at Clunes. Excellent.

The kid and I are heading into the city this morning to buy some fabric so I can make him some pants. He has outgrown all his, and I can't find any that I like anywhere. Too navy or too pastel or too... crap. And I can't justify another Love it love it love it spree just yet. So sewing it is. We're buying wool too, for another little hat, like this one I just sent off to baby A, to keep his wee northern hemisphere head warm...

I think I can just about knit those hats in my sleep now. Babies D, L, J, M, A and of course the kid have one, and there's a couple more on the way. Jeez, I know a lot of babies!

Speaking of... Mine wakes. He still isn't sleeping in the night consistently. But he seems to be logging some serious morning nap time to make up for it, so at least that's something. Back into the fray.