Uh Oh....

Beth is starting to really understand what it going on when she watches TV... Everytime she hears someone go "uh oh" on tv, she says it too... and it is surprising the number of times "uh oh" gets said... the Teletubbies say it *alot*!

She was also watching Play School today and they were singing "Row Row Row Your Boat" and she started doing the rowing arm motions too... it was too cute! Beth has also developed an obsession with stacking blocks... she has these Peter Rabbit nesting blocks that Bac Bao Anh got her for Christmas and she just loves stacking them up and then pushing them so they fall over (she's a little bit destructive!). Oh, and we are having some hilarious interaction (or rather non-interaction) with Beth and the baby doll... we were playing playdough today and I was pretending to feed the doll some playdough... and then Beth fed the doll too (that's big progress!) but then when I tried to get Beth to give the doll a drink from a little plastic cup, she took the cup and "drank" out of it herself and refused to share. And then she took away the stool that the doll was sitting on... and stood in a corner and looked at the doll... quite anti-social, but really amusing... I'm working on getting her to interact with the doll more... Although, it could just be that Beth is like me... I never played with dolls as a child (was never the maternal type of child)... so perhaps that's what it is... although, I don't think I would have had stand-offs with a doll if I had had one.

Nothing else too much going on here... the weather has been terrible today... Yesterday was gorgeous and balmy (I was walking around in a t-shirt) but it suddenly bucketed down with rain in the evening and has continued to do so on and off for most of today... it is just horribly dreary... Beth also woke up from her afternoon nap with a runny nose... she didn't have it this morning, but it suddently developed after her nap... doesn't seem to bother her too much ... it's actually bothering me more because I am constantly wiping her nose (she isn't too fond of).

I don't know what was reported on the news nationally, but it was lucky that Ong Ba Noi flew out on Monday, because on Tuesday a fibre optic cable got cut on the Gold Coast and crippled the entire Optus network for South East Queenland... now Optus has all the government contracts and the airport contracts so a lot of businesses came to a stand still and had problems (the airport included!)... Apparently there was a huge backlog and delays at the airport (they showed the Jetstar counters on the news crammed full of poeple)... so we were very lucky there.

I'll leave you with this photo from the weekend... it's one of my favourites... just so candid and natural...