Baby Byer, surfing, Ikea and home-baked delights

On the baby front:
* young Byer spends a great deal of time kicking Mrs. Byer, and also kicking Mr. Byer when Mrs. Byer chooses to snuggle up to me. I've made the hilarious joke that the hard lump of the baby's bum that can clearly be felt pushing up against Skye's tummy is in fact not the bum, but rather the Byer family nose.... Joking apart, this is real eye-opening stuff, feeling the baby kick and move around. Skye gets the most heart-warming look about her when it happens :) Pre-natal classes through the hospital start tomorrow night, and we've also booked into a Hypno-birthing course that starts on weds.

On the surfing front:
* my board is still in the shop, should hear something about what'll happen about the damage this week. In the meantime, I had a lovely little session last weekend at Currumbin. Small waves but no wind and a mere handful of people out. Well, at a Gold Coast point break on a Sunday "a mere handful" is 20+.... Anyway - I had 1.5 hours to surf, and set myself a wave count of 10 to reach, and made it. That's very good for me. The board I had was another hire board, a Donald Takayama Tuflite performance longboard. Very, very nice.

On the new house front:
* As I write this I have one of those heatbags sitting across my right shoulder trying to sooth the pain and stiffness from spending the entire weekend building Ikea furniture. We now have a nice new TV stand and bookshelves, all matching, all painstaking levelled and fixed to the wall, and painstakingly cabled too! Big plus points are that I now have all my records (well, all that I brought to Oz) out on a shelf, and one of my turntables all connected up and ready to go. And my tape deck. And all the hifi gear is well out of reach for the arrival of young Byer...
* the cot is now assembled and in the nursery. Just got to get the ikea chest of drawers and easy chair built too



I should also point out that Skye has recently turned into something of a superwife, making good use of all our selection of kitchen appliances and cook books. This weekend alone she turned out a loaf of bread, a tray of cinnamon rolls, some banana muffins and some savoury cheese and chive muffins. I had leftover homemade tuna sushi rolls for lunch today, and best of all, last week she got up early and made buttermilk and blueberry pancakes for breakfast, serving them up with fruit juice on the deck just as I crawled out of bed - how good is that!?!? And all this while happily carting my unborn child around in her tummy. Good stuff :)

...and finally, I've made my Youtube debut with a short, dry, comic film (rather like me, in many ways...). "Breakfast of Champions - Queensland Style"