Census Day!

On Census Day five years ago, I personally upped the population of Australia by one: little BallFiend popped out at 1.46 pm on Tuesday 8th August 2006, and as a reward for our efforts the ABS gave him a t-shirt (which didn't fit him until nearly 3 months later).

BallFiend in his Census T-Shirt, at 9 weeks old. 

Given he was 17 days overdue, it's not entirely surprising that he came in time for the Census, but during the last few days of my pregnancy I was sure he would wait to be born on the day after the Census and we would have to wait another 5 years before he could become an official population statistic.

The funny thing is that once I went into labour, I completely forgot about it being Census Day. It wasn't until about 8.00 pm that evening, when a Census officer visited us in our hospital room to give us a form that we realised BallFiend had in fact "made the count".

Today, BallFiend is equally as disinterested in the Census as he was five years ago. Fair enough too.

BallFiend aged 5 years and, as you can see, still lazing about on the couch.
Thumper joins him for a pretend afternoon kip.

DeepSpice and I will complete the Census questions tonight (online - hooray for technological advancements!) and this time around, we get to add Thumper to our Census form. (Though if you had asked me five years ago, I would have said there is no way on Earth we are going to have a second baby!) We will also be marking "no religion", although if there was a religion devoted to the worship of balls, I might feel somewhat obliged to tick that box on BallFiend's behalf.
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