Our little universe of Jones seems to have revolved around Hayzey in the last couple of days.
On Saturday we had a birthday party for her - a week early but there are some very compelling reasons for why this is so. It was a nice day. Very hot with bugger all breeze but the crowd who turned up were a very pleasant bunch. The time of the year meant some folks couldn't make it and this was a bit sad but there were also some people there we hadn't seen for at least 5 years.
Not much happened. I cooked up a bit of a bbq (which seemed to go down well) and there were plenty of salads and nibblies. The kids more or less took care of themselves and the adults were left to be adults.
Aunt LJ and UA made the bold decision to stay at our place. I'm glad they did this. Poor little Hayzey developed a good fever and then started vomitting up whatever we gave her - including water and some Panadol to try to keep the fever down. Mrs G and Aunt LJ whipped her off to hospital at about 20:00 and by the time they got there her fever was up to 41 degrees!!
They checked her out for pneumonia (including chest X-rays) and tried to get a urine sample from her. Rumour has it Hayzey went from extreme lethargy to burst of intense energy at the click of the proverbial fingers and was asking where LGR was ....
In the end she was allowed to come home at about 01:00 after keeping down some water and Panadol.
LGR and I got out of bed just a few hours later (he slept through it all) and everyone else was up by about 07:30. We'd planned to go to Taronga Zoo for Mrs G's work thingy but I was hoping LGR had forgotten about it. No such luck; so by about 09:30 we were on our way. I expected Hayzey to sleep very soundly but it was LGR who crashed. It took about 30 minutes for Hayz to snooze.
What did we do at the zoo? We saw some crocodiles, and monkeys and gorillas. The seals were showing off a bit and the elephants were fairly lazy. The wombat was asleep (I've never seen a wombat sleeping before this) and the echidna's were moving around. We also saw Santa and the kids had a bounce on a jumping castle. Lunch was non-descript.
It was a short visit. Everyone got tired very quickly and we decided to cut our losses and head home. We'll be back - LGR's enthusiasm has been jumpstarted and he can't wait.
The rest of the day was fairly quiet - but not the night time. Hayzey had a shocking night - waking up several times and refusing any attempts to give her some medication which might control her fever. At least she wasn't vomitting. LGR woke up too - after a massive coughing fit which caused him to have a small vomit. We didn't get much sleep.
When we emerged into daylight on Monday morning Hayzey had a temperature and was very lethargic. I was the designated stay at home person. So I spent a day with her. We saw the doctor who told us she had, not surprisingly, an infection in her chest and another ear infection ...
Her fever came and went and her bursts of energy got longer as the day wore on. There were some very sweet moments - like when we read books for an hour, when we took turns eating slices of apple and telling each other how yummy it was and even when Hayzey helped me build her little tricycle. There were also some sad moments. Hayzey fell asleep on the lounge clutching a drink in one tiny hand and her Dora doll in the other.
I'm not sure how she is now. I started work at 04:00 (again) but she'd pretty much slept through up to the time I left home. I'll find out pretty soon.
And just so you know - LGR is fine. He has also had a fever but nowhere near as bad.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Friday, November 24, 2006
A Day Off
Mrs G and I had a day off yesterday. It was supposed to happen a few weeks ago but for various (work) reasons it didn't eventuate.
What did we do?
We took my car in for a service after dropping the kids at kindy. While in the caryard we took a chance to look at a few vehicles but this lasted for all of 5 minutes. From here we meandered on over to some shops and did a spot of Christmas Shopping and had some lunch. After lunch it was some more shopping and then back to kindy to pick up the kids nice and early.
Next stop was a visit to a farm to pick out our new puppy. There were 7 of them to choose from and, in a nice twist, the one I was interested in (because he was laying on his back looking for a tummy rub!!) was the same one Mrs G liked from our pictures. So the choice was easy. Hayzey was pretty good with the puppies and LGR was ok (sort of) but the Mum pup scared them both ...
There's a still a way to go.
What did we do?
We took my car in for a service after dropping the kids at kindy. While in the caryard we took a chance to look at a few vehicles but this lasted for all of 5 minutes. From here we meandered on over to some shops and did a spot of Christmas Shopping and had some lunch. After lunch it was some more shopping and then back to kindy to pick up the kids nice and early.
Next stop was a visit to a farm to pick out our new puppy. There were 7 of them to choose from and, in a nice twist, the one I was interested in (because he was laying on his back looking for a tummy rub!!) was the same one Mrs G liked from our pictures. So the choice was easy. Hayzey was pretty good with the puppies and LGR was ok (sort of) but the Mum pup scared them both ...
There's a still a way to go.
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Hayzey on Holidays
A classy little pic of Hayz getting stuck into some afternoon tea on the first afternoon of our very quick trip to Mollymook. We'd just come back from the beach - hence the reason she looks so clean and pristine. Within a few minutes we would be joined by a couple of food seeking feathered friends.
LGR Sleeping
This photo was taken the morning after Aunt LJ and UA's engagement party (Part 1). I 'camped' with LGR downstairs because the bedrooms were taken up by guests - including LGR's bed. He woke me up at about 05:00 but then went back to sleep a while later. I didn't have the same luxury.
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Dog
We're getting a dog. A little Jack Russell. It's all arranged. The puppy is currently only 3 weeks old and we'll probably get him or her just before Christmas. The 4 of us are going for a little adventure on Thursday afternoon to pick out our little chap. From there on in it's a matter of getting all the stuff we need at our place, having some vet type things done and then taking delivery.
LGR is very excited about it. So excited he's pulled his little brown toy puppy out of storage and started dragging it around the house with him. LGR's puppy is called 'Energy' - because he has lots of it :-) LGR has also found a toy elephant somewhere and named him Peter.
As a result LGR slept with Tommy the bear, Energy the dog and Peter and elephant last night.
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We had an unexpected visitor last night. The 4 of us were looking at some pics and videos of the puppies when we heard a little rattle at our front door. We looked around and our little 18 month old neighbour was trying to get in. It turns out she had managed to get out the front door of her place and independently made her way to our house to play with Hayzey.
Her parents were very relieved to discover she wasn't actually wandering around the street but was quite happily playing with our kids.
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LGR went to his first athletics carnival over the weekend. It was an event known as a scamper and it was kind of a region based carnival for the smaller kids in Little Athletics. He had a ball - loved every minute of it. They ran a couple of races and had a few novelty events such as tug of war, an obstacle course and an array of parachute games. Both kids managed to get filthy - the track was very dry and had been top-dressed in the not too distant past. Most of the top dress had turned to loose dust. Our whites pretty quickly became not whites ...
LGR is very excited about it. So excited he's pulled his little brown toy puppy out of storage and started dragging it around the house with him. LGR's puppy is called 'Energy' - because he has lots of it :-) LGR has also found a toy elephant somewhere and named him Peter.
As a result LGR slept with Tommy the bear, Energy the dog and Peter and elephant last night.
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We had an unexpected visitor last night. The 4 of us were looking at some pics and videos of the puppies when we heard a little rattle at our front door. We looked around and our little 18 month old neighbour was trying to get in. It turns out she had managed to get out the front door of her place and independently made her way to our house to play with Hayzey.
Her parents were very relieved to discover she wasn't actually wandering around the street but was quite happily playing with our kids.
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LGR went to his first athletics carnival over the weekend. It was an event known as a scamper and it was kind of a region based carnival for the smaller kids in Little Athletics. He had a ball - loved every minute of it. They ran a couple of races and had a few novelty events such as tug of war, an obstacle course and an array of parachute games. Both kids managed to get filthy - the track was very dry and had been top-dressed in the not too distant past. Most of the top dress had turned to loose dust. Our whites pretty quickly became not whites ...
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
So much
There's been a crapload happen since my last post.
To start with - we went down to Mollymook for a couple of days. We stayed at a very nice little place about 200m from Mollymook surf beach and spent a couple of days doing not much.
From the beginning ....
Grandma, Uncle G and his smiling friend (LGR's name - not my name) came down for dinner on Thursday evening. We had some food and some wine and a nice old time. Grandma stayed but unfortunately Uncle G and his fried had to go home. I suspect they wanted to come to Mollymook with us but there were some time constraints.
On Friday morning we all got up, dressed and headed off at about 08:30. The first planned step was at Mt Gibraltar (aka Mittagong) but for some reason I couldn't find the lookout I was after. So we kept going thru to Fitzroy Falls.
This was a nice chance to get out and stretch the legs. LGR and Hayzey were suitably awed, and scared, by the enormous drop from the first lookout we got to. There's a steel grate at the edge of the lookout and nobody really wanted to walk on it. Hayzey got game quite quickly but I had enormous issues with even being on the lookout. For those who've been there might be some appreciation of why this is so.
Next was a quick trip down a very steep and windy road to Kangaroo Valley. We had some morning tea and then did a spot of venturing down the main street. I came across a fantastic little store selling imported things from all throughout Asia. We ended up buying the most magnificent photo albums and a few pressies for some folks. I have a very strong suspicion we'll be back at this place.
From here we went straight to Mollymook - and our little holiday house at Mollymook. The first impressions were very favourable (and time showed us they were also very accurate). We dumped our stuff and did a quick explore before heading out for some lunch and some groceries.
One shopping trip later and we were back 'home' unpacking, and then off to the beach. There was some initial trepidation from the kids but this disappeared quite quickly. We played some nice games of running away from the water and digging tunnels. I went for a run on the beach and we all got generally acquainted with the environment.
When we got back home we were enthralled by a couple of very bold rainbow lorrikeets - which quickly turned out to be pests. In the end we had to rush them off the deck because they were eating the food of Hayzey's hands ...
Not much else happened. We had dinner and went to bed.
Saturday was a sparkling day. After a massive breakfast we set out to find some water and nice sand. After a couple of false starts we found somewhere quite nice - although LGR and I managed to find somewhere even nicer just up the beach. We planned to go there in the afternoon but this never happened ....
Lunch consisted of a play in the nearby park and some fish and chips. Quite good too. Then the clouds came. And the temperature dropped by about 10 degrees. So we went for a drive to get some fresh fish for dinner. Wouldn't you know it? The shop we ended up at was owned by the guy who lived next door to the house we were staying at. Interesting ....
The only other thing of note on the Saturday was a nice 90 minute walk along the beach. We didn't take swimmers because we thought it was too cold. This obviously meant the kids both got soaked. In the end LGR had my shirt on (his was too wet) and I was wandering the streets of Mollymook mostly naked hugging Hayzey to stop her getting too cold.
Sunday wasn't much of an improvement. The weather was overcast and sometimes it looked like clearing up but in the end it just rained. We managed a trip to the markets at Ulladulla and picked up some more nice little pressies for people. The venture was cut short by rain ...
So we decided to head home. In the end we only left about an hour earlier than we had originally planned so we didn't miss much. We were thinking about stopping at Berry but in the end decided to skip it and have lunch at Kiama. Not a smart decision (in hindsight). We couldn't find anywhere that appealed to us and could fit us in so we had pies in the park while the kids played.
It was a good little trip. I wish it was longer but there just wasn't enough time. We'll be back though.
To start with - we went down to Mollymook for a couple of days. We stayed at a very nice little place about 200m from Mollymook surf beach and spent a couple of days doing not much.
From the beginning ....
Grandma, Uncle G and his smiling friend (LGR's name - not my name) came down for dinner on Thursday evening. We had some food and some wine and a nice old time. Grandma stayed but unfortunately Uncle G and his fried had to go home. I suspect they wanted to come to Mollymook with us but there were some time constraints.
On Friday morning we all got up, dressed and headed off at about 08:30. The first planned step was at Mt Gibraltar (aka Mittagong) but for some reason I couldn't find the lookout I was after. So we kept going thru to Fitzroy Falls.
This was a nice chance to get out and stretch the legs. LGR and Hayzey were suitably awed, and scared, by the enormous drop from the first lookout we got to. There's a steel grate at the edge of the lookout and nobody really wanted to walk on it. Hayzey got game quite quickly but I had enormous issues with even being on the lookout. For those who've been there might be some appreciation of why this is so.
Next was a quick trip down a very steep and windy road to Kangaroo Valley. We had some morning tea and then did a spot of venturing down the main street. I came across a fantastic little store selling imported things from all throughout Asia. We ended up buying the most magnificent photo albums and a few pressies for some folks. I have a very strong suspicion we'll be back at this place.
From here we went straight to Mollymook - and our little holiday house at Mollymook. The first impressions were very favourable (and time showed us they were also very accurate). We dumped our stuff and did a quick explore before heading out for some lunch and some groceries.
One shopping trip later and we were back 'home' unpacking, and then off to the beach. There was some initial trepidation from the kids but this disappeared quite quickly. We played some nice games of running away from the water and digging tunnels. I went for a run on the beach and we all got generally acquainted with the environment.
When we got back home we were enthralled by a couple of very bold rainbow lorrikeets - which quickly turned out to be pests. In the end we had to rush them off the deck because they were eating the food of Hayzey's hands ...
Not much else happened. We had dinner and went to bed.
Saturday was a sparkling day. After a massive breakfast we set out to find some water and nice sand. After a couple of false starts we found somewhere quite nice - although LGR and I managed to find somewhere even nicer just up the beach. We planned to go there in the afternoon but this never happened ....
Lunch consisted of a play in the nearby park and some fish and chips. Quite good too. Then the clouds came. And the temperature dropped by about 10 degrees. So we went for a drive to get some fresh fish for dinner. Wouldn't you know it? The shop we ended up at was owned by the guy who lived next door to the house we were staying at. Interesting ....
The only other thing of note on the Saturday was a nice 90 minute walk along the beach. We didn't take swimmers because we thought it was too cold. This obviously meant the kids both got soaked. In the end LGR had my shirt on (his was too wet) and I was wandering the streets of Mollymook mostly naked hugging Hayzey to stop her getting too cold.
Sunday wasn't much of an improvement. The weather was overcast and sometimes it looked like clearing up but in the end it just rained. We managed a trip to the markets at Ulladulla and picked up some more nice little pressies for people. The venture was cut short by rain ...
So we decided to head home. In the end we only left about an hour earlier than we had originally planned so we didn't miss much. We were thinking about stopping at Berry but in the end decided to skip it and have lunch at Kiama. Not a smart decision (in hindsight). We couldn't find anywhere that appealed to us and could fit us in so we had pies in the park while the kids played.
It was a good little trip. I wish it was longer but there just wasn't enough time. We'll be back though.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Catching Up
I had a pretty big weekend. For some it.
Saturday was fun. It was still raining but I spent Saturday looking after the kidlets. Mrs G and a busload of friends went on a shopping trip. From 07:00 thru to about 18:30 was time for the kids and I.
We started with swimming lessons. Hayzey had her first lesson without me in the pool and coped very well. She was a touch lazy (as she does) and only cried when another kid tried to push her in the pool.
After swimming we spent some time lazing around home - playing games, drawing, eating etc. Lunch was some fish and chips. LGR was excited about this until he found out I was making them ... He did enjoy watching Madagascar but at various times described the movie as being either too sad or too scary to watch. He ended up watching it all.
In the afternoon the kids had a sleep and then we went out to get some stuff for later that night. LGR told me he wanted prawns for dinner - but only after we'd arrived back home from the shops. It was still raining and there was nothing better to do so off we went again.
The rest of the day was more of nothing. And it was mostly fun.
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Saturday night was also good. It was Aunt LJ's engagement party part 2. To cut a long story short there was plenty of food, plenty of drink and plenty of people. It was still raining. We had fun.
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Nanna and Grandma both stayed over on Friday and Saturday nights - on Friday so they could go on the shopping trip and on Saturday so that Nanna could come to the party with us and for Grandma to babysit. It was much appreciated.
We woke up on Sunday morning (not much sleep was had) and the kids were very sprightly but Mum and Dad were not so great. Not hung over as such but definitely impacted by the night before. We took our time with everything. Grandma left at some stage of the morning, and Grandpa turned up at some other stage of the morning and the kid's dragged him off to jump on the trampoline and play ambulances. At about midday Nanna, myself and LGR wandered on out to get some groceries.
During the course of the afternoon Aunt LJ and UA showed up looking and feeling pretty much the same way Mrs G and I did. Aunt LJ finally got her birthday present and seemed to like it.
Then everyone left and we had the house to ourselves. We didn't do much. It was nice.
Bed time was interesting. The kids were adamant they weren't tired and Mrs G and I were very adamant they were. The adults finally won - but only after the kids wore themselves by thrashing in their beds for about an hour.
Saturday was fun. It was still raining but I spent Saturday looking after the kidlets. Mrs G and a busload of friends went on a shopping trip. From 07:00 thru to about 18:30 was time for the kids and I.
We started with swimming lessons. Hayzey had her first lesson without me in the pool and coped very well. She was a touch lazy (as she does) and only cried when another kid tried to push her in the pool.
After swimming we spent some time lazing around home - playing games, drawing, eating etc. Lunch was some fish and chips. LGR was excited about this until he found out I was making them ... He did enjoy watching Madagascar but at various times described the movie as being either too sad or too scary to watch. He ended up watching it all.
In the afternoon the kids had a sleep and then we went out to get some stuff for later that night. LGR told me he wanted prawns for dinner - but only after we'd arrived back home from the shops. It was still raining and there was nothing better to do so off we went again.
The rest of the day was more of nothing. And it was mostly fun.
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Saturday night was also good. It was Aunt LJ's engagement party part 2. To cut a long story short there was plenty of food, plenty of drink and plenty of people. It was still raining. We had fun.
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Nanna and Grandma both stayed over on Friday and Saturday nights - on Friday so they could go on the shopping trip and on Saturday so that Nanna could come to the party with us and for Grandma to babysit. It was much appreciated.
We woke up on Sunday morning (not much sleep was had) and the kids were very sprightly but Mum and Dad were not so great. Not hung over as such but definitely impacted by the night before. We took our time with everything. Grandma left at some stage of the morning, and Grandpa turned up at some other stage of the morning and the kid's dragged him off to jump on the trampoline and play ambulances. At about midday Nanna, myself and LGR wandered on out to get some groceries.
During the course of the afternoon Aunt LJ and UA showed up looking and feeling pretty much the same way Mrs G and I did. Aunt LJ finally got her birthday present and seemed to like it.
Then everyone left and we had the house to ourselves. We didn't do much. It was nice.
Bed time was interesting. The kids were adamant they weren't tired and Mrs G and I were very adamant they were. The adults finally won - but only after the kids wore themselves by thrashing in their beds for about an hour.
Friday, November 03, 2006
Raining??
I played golf this morning. Obviously this meant that it rained ... What is it about golf and me? The vast majority of times I've gone out for a hit this year it has rained. Maybe I should play more often.
For what it's worth I was hitting fairly well today. Contact was good and a couple of shots had some nice line and length. I played a delicious 6 iron from about 150m which ended up about 5m from the pin and also put in some deft pitches from 75-100m. I even came close to chipping in from the sand - the ball rolled into the flag and bounced off ....
The downside to the rain (apart from getting wet) is that it looks as though there is no athletics this week. LGR will be shattered.
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Go here first - then come back and read the rest.
Now for the next one. I'm really not sure what to make of it. On the one hand they guy who wrote it does seem to have acted a touch unreasonably but on the other it gives the distinct impression of an organisation (or collection of organisations) who are more keen to be seen doing something than actually doing it.
Couldn't happen in Australia? I bet you it does.
For what it's worth I was hitting fairly well today. Contact was good and a couple of shots had some nice line and length. I played a delicious 6 iron from about 150m which ended up about 5m from the pin and also put in some deft pitches from 75-100m. I even came close to chipping in from the sand - the ball rolled into the flag and bounced off ....
The downside to the rain (apart from getting wet) is that it looks as though there is no athletics this week. LGR will be shattered.
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Go here first - then come back and read the rest.
Now for the next one. I'm really not sure what to make of it. On the one hand they guy who wrote it does seem to have acted a touch unreasonably but on the other it gives the distinct impression of an organisation (or collection of organisations) who are more keen to be seen doing something than actually doing it.
Couldn't happen in Australia? I bet you it does.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Maybe it's good?
It's Aunt LJ's birthday today. So happy birthday to you Aunt LJ. 'Twill be good to see you over the weekend.
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I got some confirmation this morning that the guy doing my data recovery may have been able to get just about all of my information off the busted hard drive. If that is true then I am a very relieved chappy. I haven't spoken to him yet, and more importantly don't have the disk that the information will be transferred to. I continue to hope for the best ....
My new 'puter is supposed to be delivered on Monday. I've been doing some research and am quite excited about getting the chance to build it. A lot of my research has been in the area of automated data backups to external media (eg CD/DVD and external disks).
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I got some confirmation this morning that the guy doing my data recovery may have been able to get just about all of my information off the busted hard drive. If that is true then I am a very relieved chappy. I haven't spoken to him yet, and more importantly don't have the disk that the information will be transferred to. I continue to hope for the best ....
My new 'puter is supposed to be delivered on Monday. I've been doing some research and am quite excited about getting the chance to build it. A lot of my research has been in the area of automated data backups to external media (eg CD/DVD and external disks).
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