and so i went back with my camera...
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this is a really cool kid. he sure knows how to have fun and is friendly with the other kids too!
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oops, i guess! this kid slipped and fell several times, and sometimes it looked like it really hurt as he laid there being still for a few moments before getting himself up and playing some more like he never fell. anyway, 'twas a really nice way to spend an afternoon, sitting around watching kids play. There is something about this that warms your heart.
Oh, and i even had a bratwurst. Just no beer. :-)
Labels: kids, kingston, play, water fountain
when you wake at 5am and its not light,
when you are out at 8pm and it's already dark,
(even feels like Singapore at christmas - the cool air after it's just been raining... blame it on the lights on some trees outside the futon shop!)
you know that summer has GONE...
"Highly Effective" my arse
what i like about the UK is...
not the weather! Haha. Well, actually, what i like about here is the fact that i can walk into a library, look through 2 shelves of "Summer Bumper Sale" books and pick out 4 for the grand total of 60p! (Even less than the 99p i spent in Oxfam Books for Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea.)
i got Mark Helprin's "A Soldier of the Great War", Michel Houellebecq's "Lanzarote", Henry James' "The Aspern Papers and Other Stories" and David Knowles' "The Third Eye". Well, i've never read any Helprin, but that one looked quite promising...
Oh yah, and also that the museums are free (well, except for special exhibitions). It's really cool that if you've got a couple of hours to kill, and you don't want to spend too much money, you can just walk into a museum and get to see some really cool stuff...
X - updates
last sunday we finally splashed out and bought a bouncy chair for the boy. A disney "Baby Einstein" infant-to-toddler rocker that's got speakers and features "Limitless Audio Options!" because it has a (wahj - i think you'll like this) jack to connect to an iPod. It even has a pocket on the under-side of the chair to slot your iPod in! i guess it is "limitless" as long as you are willing to keep expanding the size of your iPod...
well, the boy seemed to enjoy it the first time we put him in there.
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NAB swears by the "vibration" feature, but the first thing he said when he found it was "you're not allowed to use it!" Well, me, i'll be satisfied if this musical vibrating machine buys me 20 mins of hands-free (haha!) time during the day.
the boy has also seemed to have suddenly grown quite a bit. he's nearly too big for his cot & moses basket. it doesnt take much kicking for his head to reach the top of the cot/basket:
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i think it's nearly time to fix his bed up... but i'm trying to delay it because at the moment, with his basket right next to me, it's really easy to pick him up for night-feeds. Depending on where we put the bed... it'll take more effort. =)
Labels: baby, bouncy chair, xander