Family Photograph Update and News

Just a quick update.

This morning while laying on her tummy on the floor our young Miss decided that she would get to her knees.
There's nothing particularly unusual about this as she has been rocking back and forth on her knees for most of this past week and had worked out how to pull her knees under her while pushing up with her hands. I' m guessing that all of this is balance training for the day she finally decides to crawl.
However, what was unusual was the fact that she kept pulling her knees up under her and pushing her hands backwards towards her knees. It took me a moment to figure out what she was doing, and then move the musical activity thingy out from behind her. Then as if by magic Miss OWW sat up.

All on her own. No assistance. Apparently intentionally.

Babies really are quite remarkable. Really.

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Photograph updates of the young Miss can be found at Flickr under the Family and Pets Set (or on the front page of my stream).
Included in this upload are photographs of what a small baby can do in a bath when allowed seated play time. It's a good thing she gets her bath in the kitchen sink, and that the floor and bench are mop-up-able. As for me, there was no "after" photograph, but if there was it would have shown a woman wearing a red top that had mysteriously become soaking wet from neck to waist. Still the Miss had fun, I got some good action photographs (courtesy of Mr OWW's assistance with watching the Miss for me), including her very first attempt at the haka. ;)

Photography Challenge: Black and White

This was the challenge that I set for myself at the end of January.
As you can tell from my February goals update post, this has been something of a fizzer.

However, I do have some older photographs that I can share on the B&W theme, so here they are:

A Portrait of Benny.

A Profile of Duke.

A Pensive Moment for Miss OWW.

Well that wasn't the most inspiring few photographs that I have ever taken. So I will extend this challenge through March and hopefully will come up with some better examples. And just to make it even more fun I will add another challenge: Pick-A-Colour Theme and take photographs on that theme.

Oooo, I'd better get going on this one then, since a week of the month is already gone. See you again at the end of March.

Goals Update: February

Where did February go?
I know that there are two days fewer, but that just doesn't seem to be enough to explain the whistle-stop speed.

The list of accomplishments for February are suitably short in deference to the shortest month of the year. Here they are in all of their tiny glory.

Parenting Goals:

Get more sleep.

This one has been a bit of an up and down ride. During the day we are normally happy to sleep for two hours straight, but we are still refusing to sleep through the night. At least as of the last couple of weeks we have stopped waking up three times a night (midnight, 2:30-ish and 5:30-ish) and are back to two times (3:30-ish and 6:30-ish). But we have developed another little habit of going to bed after the evening bath and only sleeping an hour before deciding we would rather be awake thanks. Fortunately that has generally coincided with Mum's falling in to bed time, so at least I haven't gone to sleep yet.

Creativity Goals:


Blog consistently from now on.

Lets just agree to laugh at this one, okay?

Follow through with twelve months of photography challenges.

Sadly this one has been a fizzer in February. I will be posting some Black and White photographs shortly, but most if not all will be old images. Will try to do better in March. [Hangs head and shuffles feet.]

Personal Pleasures, Treasures and Measures Goals:


Read 24 books or more.

I keep starting them, but not finishing them. Maybe I should have set a goal to do with finishing more than one tenth of the books that I start !

Lose “X” kilograms.

This one has been marginally successful. I am almost a kilo lighter for my efforts, and as the previous post tells you - I have started running again, so this should finally be on track for 2008.

Spend some time on family history research and break through one brick wall.

I have done a bit of this, and some for my father-in-law too. No major brick walls kicked down, but some interesting information has been found. All up, a good month for this goal.

Work Goals:


Create the new website.

A good month for this too. I have at last started to focus on what I want the outcome to be, even though I have flip-flopped about how to achieve it. There is now a real possibility that I will use Wordpress to generate a static site. This is still in investigation mode, but is looking very promising. More on this as it develops.

Update the content of the website.

This is underway with the start of a Mindmap, so we are on track here too.
If you happen to have an interest in marine or aviation safety, ie you are a yachtie, boatie, commercial shipping person or a helicopter pilot, then please wander through the existing site and see what we may have missed that you would like to know. Even if you have no marine or aviation interests but have a question or a suggestion then I'd still love to hear from you. You can send me an email with whatever query or suggestion you have.

Until next month...