The Nanny Diaries

Day 1 of George's Nanny Chronicles couldn't have gone better. He slept all night without a peep (as was the case last night as well), and behaved like a little angel all day (well, an angel that poops itself at regular intervals, but an angel nonetheless).  I managed to get home at 6:10pm and Rachel wasn't far behind at 6:25pm, so we got to do bathtime and bedtime, which was rather nice. Here's a photo of the little munchkin in his blue onesie - I must say, blue sits him. He looks all sophisticated...

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Six months old today!

Bunky turned six months old today!  He celebrated it by waking up repeatedly during the night (to be fair he did have an excuse - there was a typhoon in Hong Kong last night), but behaved impeccably during our 4 1/2 hour first aid course this afternoon.  Tomorrow is his first day with our nanny - although it will be hard for us to leave him, he'll be fine - and we'll make sure that one of us does bath time and feeding time every night. Shouldn't be hard with me working around the corner. Here are a few photos from this afternoon:

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I forgot one

Another from this afternoon - a black and white one. Unfortunately his eyes are slightly out of focus, but he's still super cute in his muscle t-shirt... DSC_4462

Muscle T-shirt Saturday

A few of Bunky hanging out in his muscle t-shirt (although you can't actually see it, he's not wearing any pants in these photos...) It was pretty gross outside, and apparently there is a typhoon about to cruise over Hong Kong. A T8 warning might be raised (T8 = get off the roads and everyone go home), which would be awesome if it didn't fall on a Sunday.  Bah.

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And here's one of the predicted typhoon path (looks like we'll get the worst of it overnight).  Hopefully the roads are ok to drive on tomorrow, as we have a first aid course to go to in the afternoon.

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Nudey rudey tickle time

A short little video of Bunky being tickled the other day - from his afternoon nudey sessions.

His 4am wakeup this morning was a 3 minute chat to himself - no tears and no attendance by us required.  Most pleasing, although I now wake up at 4am waiting for him to wake up. Bah.

Drinks at the Hoffman's tonight, watching the rugby tomorrow afternoon with Mark and Paul (two an Aussie lawyers), and then a CPR / First Aid course on Sunday afternoon.  Looks like a full weekend... and then Rachel starts work on Monday. Eeek.

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Bye Aunty Jane!

Aunty Jane has just left us for New Zealand on tonight's Cathay Flight.  George had a wonderful time reacquainting himself with her, and even took a few moments out of his busy schedule to have a pee on her today. Little Poppycat seemed to enjoy Jane's company too.

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The weekend has begun

It's miserable outside (so much for telling Jane to bring summer clothes), and we're off to get the car registration done in Tin Hau, and will probably get a teeny amount of shopping done on the way back. Bunky woke at around 5ish this morning (evil little critter...) but after a quick feed he conked himself out again until around 7.15am when I went to wake him up. He's now back asleep and was in a lovely mood this morning. He spent much of it in bed with his mummy and daddy, alternating between playing with his BlaBla doll and playing with his toes.  A few photos of him below - I had to open the blinds a bit to let some light in, but it was pretty harsh and flat light, meaning that the photos turned out a little glarey (is glarey a word?):

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Wide Angle G E O R G E

I'm taking some photos of a friend's coffee shop this weekend, and I borrowed a wide angle lens from my neighbour at work.  It's rather cool - I'll get a slightly cheaper one someday (his one is a professional grade one - overkill for me), but it's fun to play with. Took a few photos of George with it tonight during nudey rudey time.  Here's one of them: DSC_4088

Aunty Jane arrives tomorrow night.  My dastardly plan for "Operation Sunday with Aunty Jane" has already failed miserably - George took his weekly constitutional a few days early, and his mummy informs me that he unleashed his weapon of mass destruction this afternoon in his cot.  I understand that a fairly decent amount of laundry was required shortly afterwards. Oh well - she's here for a week, so with a bit of luck the WMD will blow again before she flies out...

Photos from our public holiday

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And this was taken last night. Rachel is always telling me to "be careful" or "be more careful", so it was particularly satisfying to be able to take this photo of how she carefully left her glass of red wine...  *cough*

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Bathtime - featuring small purple modesty flannel

Public holiday today, so we might shoot out to Stanley for a spot of early lunch - we were going to head out to Tin Hau out the car registration, but seeing as there are up to seven different July 1 protests (and seven different road closures), we'll save that for the weekend. George got up just before 7am and hung with us in bed for a while before heading to his mat in the lounge for a bit of play and tummytime.  And now he's asleep again - what a tough life...

This photo is from bathtime the other night. He's actually pretty relaxed about bathtime, and this photo doesn't do his lordship any justice in that regard.  But he looked rather cute, so I touched it up and uploaded it.

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