Fluffy Mail Monday

Who says Mondays are bad?


Butterfly and I had a really good day today. We set off in the morning to meet the lovely Tia-Louise and her adorable bunch of kidlings! Butterfly stuck pretty close to me to begin with but chose to crawl around a bit at the end, so she must have felt at ease! She also liked Aria-Rose (who wanted me to "put her dowwwwwn" so she could play Mumma hen!), Butterfly stroked her face and hair while she was playing next to her. Nawwwww!

On the way home I popped in to see Jenny (of Vintage is Beautiful) to pick up a prize we had won a while back... and buy Butterfly a dolly that was named after her!! It is so cute, and Butterfly loves her already, check out the big cuddles!!! Poor Jenny, I turned up unannounced because I couldn't get through to her mobile... normally I wouldn't do that to someone but I was driving past her house! She was forgiving, and humoured me even though she was sick... thankyou JENNY!! She needent have apologised for her attire... if anyone knocked on my door at 10am they would probably find me in a singlet and a pair of granny undies!! My poor poor post lady, she's seen it all...

Here she is... Miss Jossie doll!

When I got home there was a message in the letterbox that my fluffy mail had arrived!! Woo!! It was my Bumcheeks order from their recent sale. I had ordered 5 pocket nappies, but because my order was unavoidably delayed, Hollie threw in a FREE organic bamboo nappy for me to try!! For some reason I thought they would all be white, but no, get a load of this gorgeous colour!!


I'll let you know how it is, it is currently drying after its prewash (yeah, I know I should do more prewashes but I'm too impatient!).

I left Butterfly with her Dad while I went to the post office and to pick up a few things from the shops. I feel so strange without her though. Sometimes I feel like I need a short break, but going shopping without her is lonely! I am so used to getting around with my best girl strapped to my chest that shopping without her is just not the same. With a baby, everyone smiles at you, shopkeepers engage you in conversation, and you always have someone to talk to. Without her, no one makes eye contact with me and the shopkeepers aren't interested in having a chat. Sometimes I smile at people, and it takes me a few seconds after they've ignored me for me to remember I don't have Butterfly with me... its just sad! We have a very cold society sometimes.

Oh, and because I have borderline OCD, I have to visually check that her carseat is empty every time I leave the car in case she is there. Even though I know she is at home. Once I even called my husband to make sure he had her... and the first time I left without her, seeing the empty seat wasn't enough, I had to open her door and physically touch it!! I'm not the only one this paranoid right?? RIGHT?

Anyway I skipped half the things I wanted to do to get home. When I stopped in the driveway my girl and my man came to greet me... and she was SO excited! She kicked her legs and smiled... and then SIGNED "Mumma" for the first time!!!! I was so proud of her, and it was too relevant to the situation to be a fluke. She has done it before when I've shown her how, but never on her own steam. Brings tears to my eyes. I love you bubba!!

I = skxawng

Skxawng is Na'vi for moron...

So today I took off at 3pm to catch a 3D session of Avatar at the movies... to get away for an afternoon and spend some time alone. Butterfly's Dadda was home to take care of her...

I was pretty excited I must say. I have only been away from Butterfly a handful of times since she was born, and this would be the longest time so far... only possible because she is down to one nap a day, and SHOULDN'T technically need boob for a few hours!

I bought my ticket, and put it in my wallet. Then I went and got some maltesers from Woolworths (to save me $100) and then went to the candy bar for popcorn and froke. By the time I got to the guy at the front I had my hands well and truly full! So the poor kid had to deal with me loading up his station with my food while I fumbled for my ticket... finally I handed it to him, and he gave me the 3D glasses which I crammed into my bag. Yeah, I know, this is all very mundane but it is relevant, trust me...

I sat in the theatre all excited, eating popcorn and updating my facebook status on my phone. Finally the ads were over and the message comes up... "Put your 3D glasses on NOW"... so one handed I feel in my bag for the 3D glasses and put them on.

So the movie starts... and it is all fuzzy. I take the glasses off. Its fuzzy. Put them back on... its darker but still pretty fuzzy. "Well this is CRAP!" I think, either they haven't turned the 3D "on" yet, or the guy at the front gave me faulty glasses! But that doesn't make sense? I must have watched the first 10 minutes of the movie before deciding to go and ask the guy at the front what is happening. I take the glasses off. I have a closer look....

And burst out laughing!! Take me out the back and shoot me now... I was wearing my Sunglasses! What an IDIOT!! What a SKXAWNG!! I sat there giggling at my own idiocy, the other people in the cinema must have thought I was a nutcase. My husband is still shaking his head over it... oh man, baby brain strikes again!

So I thought I had seen Avatar on Blueray... I hadn't seen it at all! It is a totally different movie in 3D!! WOW is all I can say! I thought 3D meant stuff came flying at you from the screen, I wasn't prepared for the beauty of seeing a Pandoran forrest as though I was there... WOW. If you haven't seen it in 3D and you can spare a few hours, check out whether or not your local cinema is still showing it, you won't be disappointed!

I managed to chew through a large popcorn and frozen coke, and a whole bag of maltesers! I won't tell you how large the bag was... you will be disgusted at the extent of my gluttony! Have you ever gotten "movie mouth"... where your mouth is sore from chewing for two hours straight?? No? Err... no... me either...

Avatar is a 160 odd minute movie... I lasted 115 minutes! I got a message from my husband asking how long till it finished, as Butterfly was getting grizzly and continually signing for milk. He said to finish the movie, that they were fine... but I couldn't do it! I stayed for 15 minutes, all the time not paying attention and thinking of my baby, and when a Na'vi woman walked across the screen holding a tiny blue baby, that was it for me! I had seen the ending anyway. Sure, not in 3D, but I wasn't enjoying myself anymore... Mumma was comin home bubba!

I would have been home 5 minutes earlier, but it was the first time I'd driven hubby's car and I couldn't for the life of me find how to turn on the headlights... see? SKXAWNG!!!