Famous Last Words - Part II

Before you read this post, read this post.

So I'm changing Kat's nappy. She's giggling and I give her a zerbert. She scoots herself away backwards. And bangs her head into the wall (bad mummy for not anticipating this). She starts crying. So I pick her up and give her cuddles.

The crying doesn't last long and turns into giggles again. I say to her "You think that's funny, what would be really funny would be if you pee'd on me right now".

Aware of the dangerousness of this statement, I expect her to do so straight away. She doesn't.

Ten seconds pass. I say "I guess you're not going to then". No sooner had the words left my mouth than down comes the trickle.

Unfortunately the photo didn't turn out to well given I was the only one home and couldn't find the timer button on the camera.



Downside is that I only brought one pair of pants to Wellington with me. D'oh. Hope it dries quickly, and hope I don't smell too bad :-/

-Megz

A week in Wellington

Kathleen and I are currently in Wellington visiting with Peter's family. We flew down here with Peter on Thursday evening, as Peter had a job interview in Wellington on Friday. We decided to combine the interview with a bit of a holiday and spent the weekend here. Peter flew home yesterday but Kat and I are staying for another week.

Peter said the interview on Friday went well, but we don't expect to hear anything until the end of the week, or maybe even next week.

Saturday night Peter and I went out into town on our own. Kathleen stayed home with Grandma. It was great to go out, just the two of us. First we went to the movies and saw Clerks II (see review below), then afterwards we grabbed a bite to eat at the foodcourt (neither of us were too hungry after all the popcorn). Then we met up with a bunch of Peter's paintball friends at the Ballroom and played some pool, and hung out drinking coffee until nearly midnight. How extreme!

Sunday evening the whole family (including Kat) went out to dinner at the Hogs Breath Cafe. Kat hadn't slept very well that day and I was fearing a repeat of the first time we took her out. And yes she started screaming as soon as we put her in the highchair. However when we put a plate of mashed potatoes in front of her she began to have a lot of fun picking up handfuls of mashed potato and playing with it, trying to put it in her mouth, and having most of it end up in her lap. And the rest of us were able to eat our meals in peace while she played with hers.



As we are here for the rest of the week, if anybody from Wellington or Palmy wants to catch up with us, send me an email or a text message.

-Megz

Movie Review - Clerks II

Peter and I got the chance to go out by ourselves on Saturday evening (thanks for babysitting Mimi). We decided to go to the movies and see Clerks II.

We went to Reading Cinemas on Courtenay Place and got seats in Cinelounge. While the tickets are twice the price of ordinary seats, you do get to recline in Lazy Boy chairs, get your own personal coffee table, and all the popcorn and fizzy drink you can eat or drink. Plus there is a cafe menu and alcohol if you wish to purchase it. So by the time you throw the free popcorn and drink into it, it's not that much more expensive than a regular ticket, and it's sooooo comfy.

So we settled into our nice comfy chairs to watch the movie. I first saw Clerks on video about nine years ago. I don't think I 'got' it the first time, and it wasn't until the second time that I actually liked it. When Kevin Smith followed it up with Mallrats, well I really liked that. I'm not sure that anything Kevin Smith has done since then has really lived up to the first couple of movies. I think I liked Chasing Amy but I've only seen it once and can't remember. As for the rest, well they all got a bit commercial for my liking. So anyway, I wasn't expecting too much from Clerks II.

However, I was pleasantly surprised by the film. I felt that it really lived up to the flavour of the original film. I don't want to give away too much, but it is set 10 or 11 years after the original film. The original characters Dante and Randall return. The Quickstop has burnt down and they are now both working at some hamburger joint. And as per the original movie, this one just follows a day in their life at work. Talking crap, slacking off, and pissing off customers, while Jay & Silent Bob stand around outside.

If you enjoyed the original movie, I recommend seeing the sequel. If you haven't seen either then I recommend seeing both, although you can see the sequel without having seen the first one. But if you haven't seen it before, be prepared for something a bit unusual. Like I said, it took me a couple of times before I 'got' it.

-Megz

Movie Review - My Super Ex-Girlfriend

This week our car needed to go to Toyota to get a new seatbelt fitted so that it would pass its six monthly Warrant of Fitness (mechanical check). The old seatbelt was a bit frayed. So since Toyota is right around the corner from the movie theatre, I dropped off the car and then went to the movies while they worked on it.

The first Wednesday of every month our local theatre has a Mums and Bubs session where you can take your babies along to the movies. It's dark so that you can feed them in privacy, and they can hopefully sleep, and it's full of other mums and bubs so no-one minds if they cry.

Kathleen and I went and saw My Super Ex-Girlfriend. Well, I saw it as best I could while also keeping an eye on Kathleen crawling up and down the aisle playing with the other babies. She had a good time and made a couple of friends.

Maybe it was because I was paying too much attention to Kathleen, but I didn't find the movie very interesting at all. It was just kinda boring really. It was too easy to be distracted away from the movie by Kat and I was only half watching it. I don't think I missed too much - I think it would probably still have been boring even if I hadn't had the distraction.

So not a movie to recommend I'm afraid.

-Megz

Father's Day

Sunday was Father's Day in New Zealand. I wanted to make the day really special for Peter for his first Father's Day as a father, to acknowledge just how much I really appreciate all his help and support. He plays with Kathleen and she loves it. He's really good at putting her to bed without her fussing. And whenever she wakes up during the night he always jumps out of bed to her. Although she has been sleeping through the night for some time now, she still wakes up several times a night. She sleeps with a dummy to help settle her, but during the night she will drop it or knock it out of her mouth, and then she will start crying. Peter always goes to her and puts it back in her mouth and soothes her back to sleep again. And I am so grateful for this because somehow he has the ability to do this and then go straight back to sleep again. Whereas if I were to get up I would then spend the next hour tossing and turning unable to get back to sleep. And as soon as I started drifting off, Kat would cry again. So Peter, thank you, I really do appreciate everything you do.

In the morning I kept Kat quiet in the living room while Peter enjoyed a sleep in. Then after they both woke up again I made omelettes for the family and we all ate at the dining room table together. Kat had her own special omelette cut up into tiny pieces which she was able to grab and put into her mouth by herself. Of course much more ended up in her lap than in her mouth, but she had a lot of fun and she still got something to eat.

It was a lovely day, so in the afternoon we went down to the park. Spring is definitely here now. We took Kat on the swings and slides but she didn't seem all that impressed. Then we found a spot on the grass and took her socks off and let her have a crawl around on the grass for the first time ever. Maybe she was getting a bit tired but she wasn't all that interested in crawling around. She liked the daisy and tried to put that in her mouth. She also wanted to put the stick in her mouth too but hit herself with it instead (oops).

That evening we finished the day off with a big meal of lasagne, Peter's favourite.

Photos to come soon.

-Megz