a quick trip
We've all just returned from Queensland for a holiday - my Dad even got time off work!Apparently I've been up there before but I can't really remember it - it was for my Christening ages and ages ago.
This time we stayed for 4 days and I met up with some of my cousins. Samuel is the closest to me in age and he showed me a few little tricks - I've been standing up for a couple of weeks and starting to get around by holding onto things and stepping - he's running and walking around so I'm pretty keen to do the same.
I said before that I've been to the biggest bathtub (which turned out to be a pool), but wow.. Samuel and I went to the absolute biggest - they call it "the ocean" - it was so big that it couldn't keep still - and it was surrounded by sand. It was my first time touching sand and it was really weird to play with it (it tasted alright too) [probably one of the benefits of not having teeth to have the sand "crunch" between].
I hung out with Gram and Pa a couple of times whilst my Mum and Dad went to the movies - which meant that I got to empty out Gram's tupperware cupboard and play with almost anything I want! Pa and I did a couple of crosswords and I helped him pick some horses to bet on. [if only there was a horse named "Drooly McBabbleMouth" we'd know her tips for sure!]
My Dad took me to see the Big Pineapple - I'll get him to put up the photos (but he's been pretty slack with keeping my site up to date so I don't know how long it will take him!) - it was something that he remembers from when he was a little kid. We didn't get to go on any of the rides (just as well as I was pretty tired and enjoyed having a sleep in the car on the way home).
One more thing - Gram and Pa's house is officially the first time I've had to deal with a step - apparently when you put a few together you get stairs and they're supposed to be hard to deal with. The step was between the dining room and the back deck - I managed to crawl up ok, and coming back down was a little strange, but I managed to get through it without losing any skin off my nose or doing a faceplant.