Don't sneak up behind me

Yesterday, Josh was to start work at 2. At 1, I said goodbye to Josh as I went upstairs to put Noah down for a nap (he had broken his nap into two...dirty rat) as Josh was going to leave a few minutes later. Well, Noah went down really quickly and so I came back downstairs.

Apparently I came down very quietly. Josh was not expecting me to come back before he left.

I walked to the garage where Josh was putting on his workboots, and facing away from me. As he turned around I did what anyone in my position would do - I hid behind the doorway and then popped out yelling 'RARRRRR!'

Josh's response was not what I had expected.

I expected him to jump, maybe yell a bit, laugh, and give me a hug. Instead, he jumped, went into a trance like state, put on his serious face, and pulled his hand back to punch! Now to be clear, this all happened in a microsecond - he had no real intention of punching me. This is the split second response of my highly trained husband :)

When he realised it was me, he went out of his 'trance' and laughed kinda irritatedly (not a word, but who cares). Apparently, you never come up behind such a highly trained superhero.

The life whisperer

Recently, Josh and I have been watching this DVD...



This guy is awesome! We keep a rather exciteable dog in our tiny little backyard and despite being walked twice a day, she gets a bit bored. Our neighbour came across me, 41 weeks pregnant, walking our rather rambunctious dog and offered some tips. The next day he came over with the DVD and suggested we watch for some tips. Well, it took a few months for us to get round to it (due to having a baby and all!), but we started watching the DVD last week.

We are learning all sorts of things about how to train our dog to be better behaved. It's all about training US, not training her. And I must say, she is doing better because we are doing better.

If only making everything in life do better was as easy as watching a DVD and implementing a few of the strategies.

Of course, we have this:


and this:


but it is not as easy as training a dog.

Life is a journey. We travel whatever roads we feel are best for us. There is no 'life whisperer'. Sometimes we reach a fork in the road. Sometimes we do a u-turn and find a better path. Sometimes I think it'd be nice to see where our road leads, but then I realise... where's the fun in that?

'Just keep swimming!!'

Thanks Dory, good advice. Apparently someone trained you well too.

Sleep

I've decided training a baby to sleep stinks.

Right now he is in his bed SCREAMING his little lungs out because he is desperately tired and I won't rock or feed him to sleep.

We had sleeps perfected before he got a cold and before we went on a trip to Townsville. Now his ability to put himself down for a nap is destroyed. We had it perfected. Darn.

Lucky I love him so stinking much!