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GOBBLE GOBBLE

We’ve had some new housemates lately – two icky schmicky bush turkeys who have been taking shelter in the trees off our back deck.  We’ve named them both Terrence the Turkey and Ollie is really taken with them. He makes a special “gobble gobble” sound and I swear he even said “turkey” once the other day.

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Fun stuff this week – Obear and I went to a local indoor play centre with our mother’s group which Ollie thought was awesome.  He was totally into climbing all over everything but it was slightly soured when he had an “incident” with a slightly older kid who thought it was a great idea to push Ollie in the chest and onto the ground.  Of course there was no mum around for the naughty kid but I took the opportunity to explain to Ollie that that is why we are gentle etc.  Hopefully the lesson works because Obear is a bit of a roughian at the moment, taking great delight in throwing stuff, biting me and pulling my hair.  I’m still having visions of being on “A current affair” on a special about how out of control my kids are!

We also had a nice family day out today over at GOMA to check out the kid’s section of the Asia Pacific Triennial.  Ollie slept through half of it but still had a great time doing some drawing with Nick and sticky-beaking at the older kids.

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This is Ollie in the room of string.  It is literally thousands and thousands of pieces of string suspended from the ceiling and you walk through it.  It is the weirdest sensation but surprisingly Ollie thought it was pretty cool.  I could have spent all day in there but was a little concerned when Obear started tugging at the string and had visions of the whole installation crashing down upon us.

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The only bad part to our outing is the disappearance of Ollie’s best mate Panda.  We had just been talking with Nanna Carmel and the Aunties that morning about the need to pick up a few reserve Pandas in case something unfortunate happened to him.  It turns out that somewhere between Nick’s office and the cultural centre, Ollie punted Panda out of his pram.  Once we realised he was gone Nick and I both went on search and rescue missions in the rain but to no avail.  I’m taking it pretty hard and am all worried about Panda out on his own in this bad weather.  I’ll make sure I keep an eye out for him tomorrow on my run in case he washes up in the mangroves.  Poor Panda.

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