Training Log Archive: Edmund

I am good at cooking. I can do measuring cups and spoons and tipping things and pouring things. I am good at choosing how much food colouring to pour over mmmum. Cooking would be better if it didn't end so soon, but this cooking was extra fun because we made hot pink playdough and it was really fun to play with afterwards. We made squirly things and snakey squooshy things and splotty skloopy things and squoozy smushy things and mmmum made something that looked like a slug and then squashed it. Then all of a sudden I realised that I was hungry, and without any warning I threw everything on the floor and did a lot of shouting until mmmum found a cruskit for me.

Mum and dadad and I went on an Adventure today to Mt Ridley. I was in the backpack a bit but when we did the last walk to wave rock I ran all the way back, and it was a really long way. I ran and ran and ran, right up until I got tired and then I got a fun piggyback from mmmum.
I did lots and lots of running around the rocks too, up and down and all over the place. It was sooo much fun. Dadad says my affinity to granite is genetic, so when I fell on my face I didn't even cry.
Afterwards I had a sleep in the car and back at home I ate and ate and ate, Even though I had been eating continuously all day (I can already eat while I am running) and kept eating until bedtime. Every time the food ran out I would cry until mmumm found me some more. Mmmum said that bit is genetic too.

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From Mt Ridley 250412

From Mt Ridley 250412

Dadad went to perth today to visit uncle Fletch and hype up someone else's kids for a change.
So when mmmum picked me up from daycare we went to the nursing home for a rare evening visit instead of going home, I think becos mmmum is a bit lonely without dadad.
At the nursing home the nurse lady was really happy to see us and she had brought me a stuffed horse, which was three times bigger than me and quite alarming. I clung to mmmum like someone very frightened of horses.
Then my friend Stella came to say hello. I like Stella becos I see her every week and she thinks I'm gorgeous. "ooooh he's gorgeous!" said Stella. "What's his name? Ooooh he's gorgeous! How old is he?" Mmmum did some talking and stuff and then Stella said "ooooh he's gorgeous! What's his name?" and mmmum and the nurse did some more talking and then Stella said "ooooh look a baby! How old is he? He's gorgeous!"
So eventually we went to see the lady who was sick and mmmum said, what's wrong? And the nurse said "she's 102 years old" and even my mmmum can't fix that, so we went home for dinner.

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I have a tummy! Who's got a tummy? I have! Where's my tummy? Here it is!

From Edmund Ray Toomey

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Yawn, today I am sleeping in the ca! on the way back to esperance. We drove a long way in the ca! this weekend to stay with auntie Jane in Albany. At auntie Jane's place there are chickens, and ducks, and a dog, and some cousins and lots of toys and a trampoline. All of these things are fun and varying degrees of scary, and some lick my fingers and some peck me and some make alarming noises like 'quaaaack quack quack' and 'woof' and 'aaaeeeeeee! Edmund stole my biscuiiiiiiiit! Waaaaaaaaa!" and "ooooh have you got a cuddle for aunty jane?"
I had a whole bedroom to myself and mmmum and dadad seemed pretty happy to be in a tent in the back yard with the duck poo and fish innards, I don't know why, but also when I woke up at 5.30 they didn't hear me so aunty Jane got me out of bed instead.
So I'm pretty tired and looking forward to going home to see my John Deere tractor and Molly the catcat and having a bath that does not contain cousin ebony and her scary plastic mermaid of terror.

Mmmum and Dadad hauled me in the backpack up Mt Toonbrunup today. They seemed to think it was a bit hard but it wasn't really, except some of the most steep and rocky bits were a bit scary when I got tipped from side to side and upside down. We visited the swarm of Toolbrunup Peak Scorpo-Flies, which are a unique species, then dropped back down to a nice sheltered ledge to eat lots of cheese and crackers, yum. Then back down again. I slept through all the bumpy bits on the way down then woke up and pulled mmmums hair for the last hour. I like being on mmmum's back the best, although when dadad carries me i like to play with his hat. We took some precarious photos for grandma to enjoy too.

Wow, I was helpfully unpacking the suitcase this morning and I got an ice cream container out, shook it a bit and then the lid fell off and all the stuff fell out. I was stunned, frozen in amazement - there on the floor were about 40 tiny cars! So many "vrooomm" noises to make, "pa-ksshhh" potential. Mmumum immediatley looked up Wikepedia to find out if they all had lead-based paint but the website said that that stopped in 1972 and the oldest one of these cars is 1974. Daddada says they're much better than today's toy cars as they were made in England, every last one of them. I thought everything was badly made in China? They look well-used, even with one careful owner but the wheels go round, some doors (those that are left) open and they still can crash into each other ok! My favourite is the Pepsi Cola truck, closely followed by the cememt mixer truck. Yayy!

Another month, another plane flight, *yawn*

Mumumum and Dadadadadad can't keep up as they don't both come along when I fly to Perth. This time I wanted to see isssssh so Dadadadadad arranged a 1hr work meeting and someone else paid for his trip and I then had someone to communicate with the hosties. Silly women didn't know that reaching out for the food cart actually means "I would like my own cheese and biscuits please, even though I'm flying for free". They gave in, I got my biccies.

Dadadadadad took me and Grandma to look at isshhh. I liked Lion isshhh and Sharks and Sting rays but most of all Turtles. But my favourite was when my sookie Dadadadadad bought me a soft fluffy sting ray from the trinket shop. When it sucks Grandad's face I Laugh and laugh and laugh!

Who's Mumumum?

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