Archive for October, 2012

2-year-old wisdom


28 Oct

Toby, while carrying his 2 shoes to me so I could put them on him said “if Nathan had four feet he would need four shoes, but he doesn’t. He as two feet so he has two shoes.”

Can’t fault his reasoning. 😀

Nathan’s jeans


13 Oct

I have made Nathan some jeans now too, but I drafted the pattern for these so I wasn’t sure how well they would work. I am so very pleased with he they turned out. The pattern on the pockets was done using my Coverstitch machine and there were no sharp turns and I think it worked really well.

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Brotherly friends….or not


09 Oct

Nathan (to me): do you know who my best friend is?
Me: hmmm….Toby?
Nathan: yes!
Toby: do you know who my best friend is?
Me: hmmmm….Nathan?
Toby: no, it’s Fred the millipede (the kids named a millipede and a cockroach a few days ago).
Me: oh, really? Don’t you mean Nathan?
Toby (decisively): no, it’s Fred!

So, apparently Toby likes a bug that he probably tried to squash by standing on it more than he likes his brother! Lol.

Toby’s Jeans


08 Oct

Today I finished some new jeans for Toby. They are an Ottobre Design pattern (Issue 4/2012, #21), and were described as ‘narrow’. They certainly are narrow, and I’m glad that I didn’t cut any out for Nathan because this is not a pattern that would work for him. I made size 92 for Toby, and they fit him really well.

I had a play with my coverstitch machine for the details on the back pockets. I’m reasonably happy with how it turned out, but I think it would look better if there were no points where lines change direction. I’m also thinking that I should have added some elastic to the waist, but after Toby wore them all day today without them ending up at his knees, I’m hoping we can get away without a belt (which would just make them too hard to get on and off by himself for toileting). All in all I’m pretty happy with them, and I think Toby is too. 🙂

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Camping on the Murray


01 Oct

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Our camping trip at the River Murray was great! We ended up finding a spot near Ulupna Island which is in the Barmah State Forest near Cobram. This was after carting the trailer along a track that ended up quite rough but we couldn’t turn around, so we just had to keep going and hope we could get out again. The official camping area was on a sandy beach where the river is wide and is relatively slow moving, but we were camped on the river bank about 1 km downriver where the river ran faster. It was nice and peaceful with no one else around, until our last night when some people camped some 50 metres from us and we were subjected to listening to the Rugby commentating as well as the koala grunting.

Our first full day there was relaxing. We stayed around the campsite, and went for some walks and a short drive around the immediate area. Our other full day was a driving day where we drive in a loop through Cobram and Tocumwal. The river had been rising since we had arrived, and the road into our campsite was nearly under water when we returned. We discussed what we should do and Andrew, with much more confidence than I had, said we would be able to get out in the morning. Thankfully we did get out.

The weather, which wasn’t great the first couple of days with lots of cold wind, improved during the last two days and we had some lovely days, but a little too cool to go for a swim. We enjoyed having a campfire every night and even cooked our breakfast on the fire the last two mornings. The kids rode their bikes like crazy, and we all enjoyed koala spotting. We were camped up on the bank of the river, with a fairly steep drop to the water. The boys liked going down to the water on foot, but yesterday afternoon Toby decided to ride down but didn’t make it and ended up scraping the side of his face. He tearfully told us he would have been ok if he had pedals, so hiding our smiles we solemnly promised him he could try the little pedal bike when we were home. We had fun despite our few scrapes and spills. 🙂

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the Tent Mahal

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the kids making a train out of our kindling

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Toby cooking breakfast

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eating pancakes with strawberries for breakfast

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Toby was a bit obsessed with setting the ends of sticks alight

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playing on the ‘beach’

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fishing

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dinner, roast chicken and veggies

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getting out of our campsite

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