Hey Cole, how's the weather up there?

Jamie gave me a special treat today - five whole hours of independence! I took a fantastic trip with Kim to Portobello West for craft ogling (and a little buying). We also dropped by the drool-worthy vintage and crafted shop Lucky Rooster on Charles at Commercial (add one more metre of vintage fabric to the vault) after deciding that it was not necessary to eat with other people's children at Little Nest since we had no babes in tow ourselves...

My boys ambled over to buy a couple's pass at Science World (Cole is free - lucky lad). We are pretty nearly across the street from it, so it's handy. Though Cole is a bit wee, Jamie said that he seemed to have a real blast looking at stuff and touching things. And I think generally being with Daddy of course... No photos - I did request it, but apparently taking care of the baby by oneself is quite a handful without the obligation to record it for posterity... :-) So anyway, we're set up for a year of all things science-related.

And the fun didn't stop there! This evening they made their first couch fort. We had to stop in the middle of construction for a bit of impromptu vacuuming of crumbs from beneath the cushions. Disgusting! How did so many crumbs get back there? Do I need to start serving us out of a trough? We eat all our meals from the couch despite having a perfectly functional table, which triples as my office and craft command centre.

While they were enjoying the newly-freshened couch cushion fort, Jamie got out the yardstick (technically a metre, but hey) and got down to measuring Cole's height. It would appear from our measurements that he's no taller now than he was several months ago (about 27 - 28 inches) but that can't be true since we keep raising his jumper and buying the kid new pants! Also, we have very little skill at baby measuring and Cole likes to lean...