December 2006

Happy New Year

December 31, 2006

This is it! My first New Years Eve!! Ever!!!
Ring out the old, ring in the new,Ring, happy bells, across the snow;The year is going, let him go;Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Will someone wake me when it’s over?

Half Way to Kosciuszko

December 30, 2006

Today, Mum, Dad, Linda and I went on an adventure to Mount Kosciuszko. Mount Kosciuszko is Australia’s highest peak standing at 2228 metres above sea level. The Europeans were the first to scale the mountain, with Polish explorer Paul Edmund Strzelecki naming the peak after its similarity to the tomb of the Polish patriot Kosciuszko. [...]

Visiting the McGinty’s

December 28, 2006

Today, Mum and Dad took me on my first road trip to Wollongong to visit Susan, Michael and Ryan. Now that Ryan has started crawling, Michael had found three safety gates for sale on eBay and we were picking them up from Woolloomooloo in Sydney and delivering them to the McGinty’s in Wollongong. The McGinty’s [...]

Christmas 2006 – My First Christmas

December 25, 2006

Today was my first Christmas ever. Mum and Dad had to wake me up at 7:00 AM for breakfast. Mum and Dad had toasted banana bread and coffee – I had milk (again). Aunty Natalie, Aunty Sam and Grandma were coming over for Christmas lunch so, after breakfast I had a quick power-nap before we [...]

Dad’s First Birthday With Me

December 20, 2006

Today was Dad’s first birthday with me. Dad turned 36 today, which I think is ancient, and he probably should be in a nursing home.
I wanted to get Dad something special that he could keep for a long time (not that he has all that long left as far as I can tell), and I’ve [...]