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Liam says the funniest things, here are some words he says and the real words:

* Conksisser, a Concrete Mixer

* Am-amps, an Ambulance

* Stitch, a Switch (network)

* KCC, instead of KFC

* Plese, instead of Police

This will go down in history as one of the most unexpected and humbling experiences we've had with Liam to date.

One of his little 'traits' at the moment is that he lets out these short loud screams (sometimes several at a time) when he doesn't get his way. They are more or less a vocal temper tantrum. I have tried for the last few weeks to just ignore them but it had made no difference - if anything, he's getting worse. So tonight when he let out this angry little scream I immediately smacked the back of his legs. It would have hurt a little as it was on his skin and he had no pants on (but he did have a nappy on).

...that if you click on the Title of each blog entry you get much more content? The blog site only puts the first few setences on the main page, the rest can be seen by clicking on each blog entry.

The gallery is now fixed and working, I've put a hacked up module in there so that it works for now until a proper update is released.

But at least now everything works again.

One of Liam's recent interests and words is "digger!". It's a bit like "star" - anywhere he sees a digger or anything that looks like a digger he shouts out "digger!". Very cute.

So I took him off to Mt. Roskill to see the new highway that is being built. The workers are still levelling the path and slicing through the soil, so I knew there would be diggers and all sorts of machines around. Even on Saturday afternoon we got to have a good look.

The gallery2 module is hosed for some reason, probably due to a couple of updates I ran earlier, so for now the gallery is temporarily offline. The gallery and drupal trees have both had fairly substantial updates today.

We flew in at about 10:30am local Sydney time today, a pretty uneventful flight. Liam did make me laugh though as we were taking off going up through the clouds, it got a bit bumpy. Mum was giving me dirty looks about the plane being knocked about, meanwhile Liam thought it was funny and a couple of times after a bump shouted out "Yaaaayyy" and started clapping. What a contrast..

Liam was in a good mood tonight, and surprised us with two things that we never thought he could have done.

The first was with the computer. I know he is always keen to use it, but he must really take in what goes on because we put one of his games on tonight and he was glued to it. It's a CD with a whole lot of games for kids his age and a bit older, and one of them is all about dragging and matching the shapes. After me showing him a few times what to do, he was into it, no help whatsoever. Dragging shapes, fitting them in with the patterns etc etc and looking VERY confident with the mouse.

Strawberries are big in season here at the moment, $3 per punnet or $5 for two. I bought four punnets on Tuesday, one for each night till we run out. They are _delicious_ so I'm pushing them so that we eat lots while they are in season. In a few weeks the prices will go up, and they'll be out of season for the year.

"Deeeeeeee doooooooooohhh" - kids are funny. I guess they say silly things like that before they learn how to really talk :)

Here's a cool pic of Liam that I just uploaded.