Although we wake up at 6am weekdays, we found that waking up at 5:45am on Sunday was a crappy whole different experience. Way too early for a weekend.

That said, once we we’re up and about and the boy was dressed we were raring to go as today would be Ted’s first ride on an electric train.

We jumped on the ‘toot toot’ at Enogerra station. We met Michelle and Ethan Homes and The Homes’ friends Megan and Hamish on the train and the boys had a great trip into South Bank.

The occasion the – International Women’s Day – fun run.

While the others breezed their way through the 5km run, I punished myself by eating an eggs beny at Pooker bakery.

The walk was over quite quickly and afterwards we took the boys to the South Bank water park for being such angels.

They … loved … it. Such a wonderful way to spend a Sunday morning.

It’s such a nice feeling to know that we have wonderful friends and family. Without our amigos our weekends might be just be boring affairs.

Jaimee’s time in Brisbane draws to an end this evening so Michelle has been locking in as much face time as we can get with her and Damian.

We enjoyed a lazy chat on the sofa Friday night before introducing Jaimee to “The Inbetweeners” tv series. Many, many laughs to be had there.

Saturday we pushed our way through the streaming rain up to Toowoomba to celebrate our nephew Jet’s sixth birthday. Ted must have forgotten about every other day he has experienced in his short life so far, as having a midday sleep wasn’t on the cards. Needless to say, Michelle and I grew weary during the four hours of travel time to and from the T-Bar.

Once back in Brizzy, Threadbare seemed to perk up after we gave him dinner and a bath. We then ventured over to the Dahl’s for a lovely evening and a nice meal.

Sunday, Michelle and I enjoyed endured a back massage from chi link Chermside. My guy said I was so tight and that I had a coat??? and needed to have the cupping treatment.

Word to the wise. I now look like a stegosaurus who has had his horny things removed.

In the afternoon, we ventured down to Shorncliffe for a final farewell picnic for Jaimee and Damian. It’s amazing how quickly three weeks can pass by.

It’d be nice if I could find a way to write up an article about visiting Jules and Shelley that was significantly different to the gerrod.com write up… but I can’t.

I just want to add that it was really great to catch-up with two of the funniest people I know.

Ted had a great time wandering the yard and working the crowd. He was walking up to everyone with an empty plate fluttering his eyelids and asking for more. He didn’t have much success from the adults and even less success from the family dog – Ruffy – who took some of Ted’s sandwich when he offered it to him. How rude!

The unexplained and mysterious phenomenon of how food, bowls and cutlery end up on the floor when you’re child is eating has now been solved.

We have exclusive footage exposing the sinister reality of this unexplained mystery. There are many suspects currently under investigation and today we can reveal exclusive footage of one of the suspects in action.

Due to the suspect in question being a minor we we cannot reveal their identity.

Warning! The footage is graphic and disturbing.

We received an out-of-the-blue text from Jaimee and Damian on Saturday afternoon. The basic gist of the message was – “you guys are our coolest friends and we’d love to spend the evening with you”. Being so cool we could hardly say no. Fortunately my Mum was in town and could babysit Ted, giving both Michelle and I the free pass to enjoy a wonderful Italian meal at Bella Cosi with Jaimee, Damian and Jen.

The meal was fantastic but a little heavy on the garlic. I’m still secreting the sweet, sweet smell of garlic through my pores today.

After a restricted week at home looking after Ted – who has had Chicken Pox – Michelle and I were both keen to get out of the house today. So after a quick breakfast we jumped in the car and headed up out past Dayboro, Mt. Mee and Woodford all the way to Somerset Dam. It was a beautiful scenic drive. We stopped off at “The Spit” to enjoy the Dayboro bakery goodies we picked up for lunch. Ted enjoyed stretching his legs and watching all the boats. Unfortunately, the air was so still and the temperature blazingly hot that it was stifling. We didn’t end up staying long, instead opting for the air conditioned comfort of our car.

On the way back we stopped by Granddad and other Granddad’s house at Petrie to say hello. Ted had a wonderful time playing down by the creek.