I drank All The Alcohol and Herded All The Kids.

I have a slight hagover.

Ok, I caught that, but am going to let that typo stand, cause it's true, too.

NYE party was very fun! VERY TIRED.

Morning, 2012.

Whee! 2012!

I have no hangover. Only had 2 glasses of champagne because I didn't want to be asleep at midnight.

Good start to year. I asked both boys o be here early to go to grandma's this morning. #1 got here at 11:30 last night and #2 arrived at 8:30 this morning. Wow. I am very impressed. All I did was ask nice.

This may interest some people: for Christmas, I gave Wallybee a selection of audiobooks and CDs of musicals. The latter category included this compilation: [link] It contains two songs by Hugh Jackman, and no less than six by John Barrowman. (And, disconcertingly, Christopher Lee doing The King and I.)

Meanwhile, Ryan's decided that his gift to his parents would be: on New Year's Day, as soon as he got up, he declared that he wanted to go sit on the toilet. Apparently he's ready to be potty trained. He's also ready for his close-up, so I'm starting the new year with the latest set of photos of our little boy. It covers the last couple of months, including our holiday to Phillip Island (home of the Penguin Parade and Faunapalooza).

At the playground: [link]
In his sleeping bag and smock: [link]
At soccer training: [link]
Fun with blocks: [link]
Spending time with Mummy and Daddy: [link]
His childcare centre's Christmas party: [link]

Christmas holiday! Time for pressies: [link]
On Phillip Island (the rainbow appeared on Christmas Day): [link]
Visit to Amaze'n'Things ( [link] ). I don't think I've ever seen as much joy in this little boy as when he was confronted with multiple Ryans in the mirror maze: [link]
Faunapalooza! Ryan meets one of the residents: [link]
Back home, and Ryan does his best Freddy Krueger: [link]

Faunapalooza generated more photos than that, of course. However, most of them are in my animal collection. They start here: [link]
Aaand the echidnas start here: [link] (Ryan loved them.)

Here endeth the photos. Please note that the number of Ryan photos still exceeds the number of echidna photos. (Though admittedly, the number of Ryan photos at Faunapalooza does not. Ahem.)

BT, you made a cute!

I don't think I've ever seen as much joy in this little boy as when he was confronted with multiple Ryans in the mirror maze: [link]

Multiple Ryans is the cutest thing ever! How old is he now? He looks so big in these photos.

Multiple Ryans is the cutest thing ever! How old is he now? He looks so big in these photos.

He is now two years and eight months old.

Welcome to 2012, everyone! May this be an excellent year for all of us.

Despite the whole end-of-the-world thing. That doesn't happen until December anyway. Plenty of time.

billy, in the shot of Ryan in his smock, is that child holding a Foster's can?

Happy belated New Year. Well, OK, it's still Jan 1st, so not that late. Hope you all had good ones. There was fizzy wine and pizza here. Was nice.

Ryan is adorable, but I think BT probably already knew that.

We went to the grave today (it's been seven days) and now we are all very tired. We fly to Geneva (long story, but The Girl's family has a home there) tomorrow or the next day, and then I'm going home. Had to cancel a poster presentation I was meant to give at a postgrad conference at the end of the week, but it will be the day after I get home, and flying takes it out of me. Unprofessional, but there's not much to be done about it.

billy, in the shot of Ryan in his smock, is that child holding a Foster's can?

Either that or a sippy cup. Unless they now have sippy cup attachments to beer cans in Australia. But, you know, stuff could happen.