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Thaddeus would like to proclaim:

Thaddeus has mastered Rasengan, Chidori, Vermillion Rasengan and Chidori Lament.

We have erected a Christmas Tree, adorned with a Rubber Lizard, Stuffed toy Gorilla, Paper Dragon, a paper letter E, Mr Clumsy Mr Men, foam bullet, felt Lion mask, Thaddeus' Christmas Star and other decorations.

Will post pics when I find the usb camera card reader / putter-upper of photos onto the Internet thingymajig.

Donald had his Interview for his Masters in Psychology today at Monash Uni. He looked great in his $3 Op-shop blazer (Dandenong Savers rawks!), tight black jeans and $2 op-shop bag. Mod-king. No one deserves this more than him. Hope he gets in.

Thaddeus has pointed out that rawks is splet ronglee. tank yew.

On the point of linguistics, Thad had German day at school on Wednesday. Don helped out last year with the Bratwurst grilling but was tied up with ME! on a date to watch the new James Bond this year. It was great!!!! I'm a huge James Bond fan, opting to indulge in Bond-ing of the Martini-drinking version than the chemical variety during my O Levels. Purist that I am, I hadn't watched the 1st Daniel Craig Bond and really didn't want to watch Quantum Solace. I almost ran out of the theatre when the opening theme wasn't the original enigmatic sleuth theme but a Jack Black popish song. Luckily I stayed. Rougishly charming Daniel Craig was great in portraying Bond's early days and the plot does alot to explain his psyche.

We're going to Elsternwick to check out Russian food.

We went to a video game convention on Saturday. It was great! Would have liked to dress up, though... even more so at the Comic Con last week where Don went crazy like a sugar-high kid given Willy Wonka's secret stash and we played laser tag.

Donald is officially a geek.

He won 1st place in a knockout xbox 360 Pro Evolution Soccer competition against 20 or so other pot-bellied, unshaven, fashion faux pas men, who obviously had not ventured outdoors in a long time. He won a Best Prize Bag Ever! Snot.

Today, we went to Dingley Village Adventure Golf. Great family fun! Two 18-hole minigolf courses, one indoor, the other outside, with nifty slides, pulleys, tubes, tunnels and other contraptions that carry the golfball in mathematically determined spots. Thaddeus scored 62 swings above par, which happened to be the lucky score and won a free game certificate.

Donald and I are ecstatic! He's got a confirmed position for Masters of Counselling at Monash '09 and an interview for Masters of Psychology coming up. Yay!!!!!

Grrrrrr... This is a snippet of Thaddeus and our daily life.

Don / Mel: How was school?
Thad: Good.
Don / Mel: What did you do today?
Thad: I forgot.

The "I forgot"s, "Are we there yet"s, "I'm bored"s and most irritating to Donald, "Whatever..." (which he probably mirrors me) alternating with the ignoring you completely. Ahhh... childhood.

#Thaddeus' 2008 School Performance, "Twisted Tales", singing It's a Hard Knock Life.

#Thaddeus' Halloween Dress Up Day - he had a rather phallic hat with a vanguard sheet and surgical caps. He wanted to be a haunted chef. He used a hospital robe and I painted "Want Some Blood?" in red fabric pain on the back. I dressed up in a surgical jumpsuit stuffed with 2 pillows and drew a mostauche, as a fat plumber. His outfit was so special (and obviously homemade) that they interviewed him. Donald declined to dress up.

#Thaddeus is skinny.

Thaddeus is sitting over my shoulder, moderating. Should have named him Alek, Smart. Or Mr Noel Eat All.

Talking about eating, Thaddeus had a moral epiphany last month. It was a usual Spring day, filled with my watering nose, itchy eyes on fire and throat with a bee buzzing in it. We decided to go to a nearby Vietnamese restaurant, MyMy for dinner. Thad ordered a pork and prawn dish and crispy chicken. They were really good and we were enjoying ourselves immeasurably... until Thad, out of the blue, asked, "Mommy, do you prefer live Chicken or Dead Chooks? I prefer live ones cause it's cruel to kill animals." Then, unusual disquiet for 2 minutes. Then he started wailing! He had decided that it was far too cruel to kill animals and had decided to become vegetarian. Don and I, the world's largest carnivores, have persuaded him to compromise and eat 3 serves of meat a week, but how does a 6 (and a half - as Thaddeus points out) year old boy make his moral judgement? Peer pressure? TV? Pop culture? In any case, I was secretly proud of my potential PETA champion. And, as Don points out, so was Don.

Thad lost a tooth!!!!! His 1st baby tooth!!!!! And he's got another one shaky, hopefully just in time for Chithmuth, tho we can take goofy picthures with a gap in hith mouth. He was ecstatic... pregnant with anticipation about the tooth fairy visiting him for the first time. He wrote a letter to the fairy-persun that for his 1st tooth, he'd like a Bakugan toy. He woke up at 12Am that morning bawling, cause he looked under the pillow and his tooth and letter were gone, but the toy was no where in sight!!!!!! Turns out, the tooth fairy hid the toy under his school clothes (in preparation for school) cause the tooth fairy reckoned that putting a 20cm box under a child's pillow would make for one uncomfortable night's sleep. He finally went back to bed after much cuddles and assurances, only to wake again at 4AM, crying again cause he missed his tooth. Twas a sleepless night afterall. He thought that for his 2nd tooth, he would write to the tooth fairy to ask that he keep his tooth instead of money, but decided against it, cause "the tooth fairy needs to help the other people that need teeth".

And, Thaddeus' 2 cents: Thaddeus is writing 2 books. I have almost finished one. That's all.

I'm taking my Advanced Open Water Course in 2 weeks. So exciting!