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Ollie’s vocabulary grows every single day.   We counted it up recently and he has at least 50 words that he regularly uses. These range from the obvious (mummy, daddy, gus) to the culinary (toast, nana, juice, cheese) to transport (car, bus), and environmental (tree, outside, turkey).  Of course he was always going to be a jibber jabberer with Nick and I for parents.

But this week he has been saying something I’m not such a big fan of - “NO WAY”.  I was over at a friend’s house the other day lamenting about this new phrase and saying that it must have been something that he had picked up at daycare, when she pointed out that I apparently say this ALL THE TIME! To which I, of course, replied “NO WAY!”.  I guess I had better watch what I say a little bit more, although it could have been much uglier than that!

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Unfortunately OBear hasn’t been in the best form in the last week.  We have been talking about these new teeth coming through for absolutely ages but finally they are making their appearance.  This arrival has been welcomed with a week worth of nightly waking, all day grumpiness and most frightening for a guy like Ollie, a complete lack of appetite.  We have been doing everything we can to help him out, including getting up to him a number of times each night, giving him tandem doses of panadol and nurofen and rubbing stuff on his poor little gums.  But he is still a cranky franky (I have been into him twice since I started writing this blog).  Thankfully there has been some progress with the teeth but I think we have some fun teething times ahead of us still.

Playing dress ups with daddy over the weekend…

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On Sunday we decided to get mopey-pants out of the house for a bit and went to Yum Yum Peking Duck for lunch.  We were totally the early birds (no pun) special, getting there just before 12 pm.  Nick and I made total pigs of ourselves and had a whole peking duck between us (duck pancakes for entree followed by duck san cho bow for mains).  I’d like to say that Ollie helped us demolish that duck but he wouldn’t put anything in his mouth that wasn’t prawn crackers.  He REALLY loves those nasty prawn crackers!

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And saying “nigh-nigh” to the fish each night.  MWAH!

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