weekend photos

I've got heaps of photos from the weekend so I better put some up before I get too far behind. I'm sure I'll get told there's too many photos but I take too many and this may be all I ever do with them.
The weekend didn't go to plan and wasn't much fun really. Alex was unsettled and didn't want to eat or nap. We ended up having to take him for a drive Saturday night just to get him to have a bottle after he had refused to eat and drink most of the day. We've found when nothing else works he will drink a bottle of milk in the car.
Sunday he was cranky, tired and hyper all day. He didn't want to have a nap and cried so hard when we put him in his cot that he threw up and I ended up with another load of washing. We tried all sorts of games to wear him out and he was running around like crazy but he still wouldn't stop. In the end we packed him in the car and went to Ikea. He loves Ikea and so do I :) We got some new lights for the lounge and dining room. I've been hating the light fittings since we moved in 6 years ago but we couldn't agree on new ones. Then we were given pendant lamp for the dining room and Graham finally got around to fitting it yesterday. Problem was it hung too low for us to walk under. It would be fine over the dining table but we move the dining table to one end of the room when not in use which means we walk under the light fitting. So that wasn't going to work so my suggestion of Ikea to calm Alex down had a second purpose :) Graham fit the new dining light last night, by torch light after he shorted the power :( The lounge room light will have to wait until he can do it in daylight.

Ok here's some photos of Alex helping with the washing and playing outside. He was so tired but a bundle of energy.

He loves the washing trolley.

His face goes so red when he runs around, mostly in a band all around the sides.



He gets clumsy when he is tired so he kept falling over but he thought it was funny.



I found this dandelion under the car when Alex was saying goodbye to his Grandma on Saturday. I had to be very careful not to lose anymore fluffs (great technical term) from it before I could photograph it. I wanted to try some shots using different backgrounds though I got too caught up in the the shooting to bother setting up any decent lighting or even the tripod so what I got was not as good as it could have been but it worked as a test of my idea so I may or may not work on this again some time.
So here's some dandelions.