The attack of the cute baby.

If you blow up the photo you can see the reds of her eyes.

Champagne tastes of the Harris Boys

Favourite foods of the Harris boys:
-Bananas strawberries avocados grapes and salmon

Family get together and Pram transfer

Two Sunday's ago we had a Harris afternoon tea, with Mark, Leanne, Megan, Isa, Gareth and Kayla. Granny and Leanne supplied the food - thanks for the dips and cakes. With a new baby on the way for Leanne and Mark it was a good chance to offload some unused baby stuff. Leanne has kindly taken the old pram and bassinet. We are slowly clearing out the house. 2 cots, 1 change table, 1 pram and 3 kids still to go.

The way it used to be.

It was a hot sunny day on Saturday and the pool looked inviting, even if the water was slighty cold. I thought about how five years ago we would have been lying on our pool lounges under the umbrella having breakfast or morning tea and reading the newspaper. We would be thinking about what movie to see in the afternoon and where we were going for dinner.

Oh well, now we have three beautiful children who have us up from 5:30am. We have done the food shopping by 9am. Friends have dropped in for a swim by 11am. By 12am we are think about packing them all off for a nap and having one ourselves.

P.S. The pool lounges were broken a couple of years ago, the sun hardens the plastic and makes it brittle. So we don't have anywhere to lie down and read the paper anymore anyway.

My wife the card shark

Last Friday night we hosted the regular work poker night. Every few months my workmates get together at someone's house to play poker and sledge each other. For the second time they came along to the Harris household. Most of them are single and don't really cook for themselves so I cooked dinner for a few of them. For one it was his first home cooked meal for months. Even though he lives at home - oh the life of a single person.

Anyway when we play at our house, Sarah also plays. For the second time Sarah won. All of the guys think she is a card shark. Sarah often asks questions during the game about which hands beat which other hands. The truth is that she really doesn't know.

Anyway the hustler's winnings paid for a new outdoor umbrella. Lets see if she manages to clean up at her work poker night. Next year I might put her on the professional poker tour.

Happy Brithday Granny

Happy Birthday Granny,

We all hope you had a great day, even if you didn't see us today.

Congratulations Rob

On the weekend we went to a picnic organised by one on of Michael's cousin's. While we were there, we were told the exciting news that an old friend that we don't see as much as we used to anymore, Rob, has got engaged to the lovely Gabi.

Congratulations Rob and Gabi.

Granny informs me that Rob is a big fan of the this blog.

Nightmare on Cobar St

Ella has started to crawl!. She is now preparing to terrorise/annoy her brothers.

I know we have been through this before. We were overseas in an apartment when Simon started to crawl, there wasn't a lot of chance for him to get into trouble. Ben did get up to more mischief. However now we are home and we have a huge accumulation of toys for Ella to get into. Constant vigilance is required.

The worst thing about crawling is that they won't sit still on the change table and keep on rolling over. It has often been a nightmare changing Ben's nappy. Ella is easily the most active of the children (obviously taking after her father). She already kicks and screams when you are dressing her. Yesterday when Ella was put on the change table, in a flash she was on her stomach trying to launch herself head first over the side. Five minutes later after a good work out she was finally changed.

A moment of madness

Sometimes the mind of a toddler works in mysterious ways. All logic can go out the window when you are desperate to prove a point.

Scene: Michael going upstairs to fetch Ella.

Sarah: Ben, do you want to watch ABC kids?

Ben: No! (wailing at the bottom of the stairs) I want Daddy.

A father wins over TV, not many times that will happen in life.