*Almost* milestones

What an exciting weekend. I'm only a bit sarcastic when I say that. Actually it was a grand weekend, just pretty mundane. I went shopping on Saturday and bought Emmett's first ever computer, the laptop in the picture opposite. We're going to train him to be a little computer geek, just like Mammy and Daddy. Mainly Daddy, because Mammy is cool, she just happens to know stuff about computers. It even has a 'mouse', a little blue mouse's head that squeaks when you squeeze it. I bet your laptop doesn't have a heart and a star key, though.. Well, Emmett's does. Hah!! Unfortunately, he seems more taken with cousin Aoibhín's pink doll, Annie.. She talks. He eats her. Its a win win situation. I also bought his big manly man car seat - he gets to sit facing forward in this one!! I haven't installed it yet, though, going to wait a couple of months. I'll miss the one we have, you see - it was handy to be able to just click him straight into it, then pull him out without waking him up and throw him in on top of the pushchair. Unfortunately, though, you'd need muscles like Arnold Shwarzahoweveryouspellit or Hulk Hogan or some other 90's superstar to be able to lift him in it these days.

Emmett had a big almost day today. He can almost talk. Well, he spent most of the day saying "da da da da da" repeatedly. I'm not demented, now, I don't think he actually associates it with Stephen or anything, but why couldn't he say ma ma ma ma ma instead? I'm the one who gets up at 7.30 every morning to make his bottles and dress him, and then bring him over to Granny's house. And what do I get? Da bloody da. There's no justice in the world. He even said ba ba ba ba ba.. Vain. Self praise is no praise, Emmett. Stephen was all encouraging of this, of course. Actually, he sat for about 15 minutes today trying to teach Emmett to press buttons on the remote control. Apparantly he could do it yesterday, he just got shy with Mammy watching. All he seemed capable of doing to me was licking it. I don't know what is so tasty about remote controls, but the child was going mad for it. He nearly rolled over today, too.. he lay on his back and pushed and pushed with his left leg until he was lying on his right side, but infuriatingly, he stopped at that. Tease!! Ah well, its a bit much to ask him to talk, eat electronic devices AND roll over for the first time all in one day.

On a personal note, I made a bit of a jackass out of myself today. I left the lights on in the car when I was at work this morning and sure enough, by lunch my battery was dead. D'oh! I had to call out the AA man, it was so embarrassing. I could just see him saying to himself that women drives suck.. I really fit that stereotype today. I wouldn't mind, but I was all distracted and I parked really wonky because the guy beside me was opening his door while I was parking so I had a dead battery and a crooked parking job. Nice. Ah well, hopefully I won't see him for another while. Not until the next time I do it. What, me? Learn? Never!! s