You can find these on the Brisbane trip page.

It was good to catch up with everyone, while we were doing the rounds.

We stayed with my Mum and Sally (the dog), Dad was travelling up from Adelaide in a truck while being followed by a crane. He made it home on the Monday afternoon and Jessie got to see him for a short while.

We also stayed with Jim and Sheelagh and the girls for two nights. Jessie was pretty excited to play with the girls again. Sophie also had heaps of fun with everyone.

We also say Darren and Carmel, Scott and Tammy along with all of the other kids as well.

We’ve had Jessie and Sophie sick this week, both Jessie and Sophie were home on Wednesday and on Thursday Jessie was home, so Karla and I did half days with Jessie getting a train ride in to the city to see her Mum’s building and then a ride back home with Dad.

She was so tired that she only wanted to go to sleep in the back of the car and didn’t want her lunch until waking up after a 3 hour sleep.

She really enjoyed the train both in and out and looked very cute in her black coat and beanie.

Later on we went to collect Sophie from day care and Karla got home later after working back trying to get some order in to her work.

Not sure what is planned for this weekend so far, Saturday is freeish I think, Sunday will have swimming if everyone is well enough and Monday who knows.

If your out and about have a great one and remember to stay safe on the roads.

I like my new lounge

Sophie got to see her new lounge last night for the first time. Karla and Jessie got the lounge on Sunday when they went shopping. We’ve been meaning to get one for some time as her Nana from Brisbane sent us the money to get her one for her Birthday this year.

Sophie is talking more these days, she clearly says Jessica and calls her Mum Karla, Dad she has been saying for ages. Plus a few other words when she wants to but with a sister who is never quiet she doesn’t get much of a chance.

She has been taking more and more steps lately and dancing is another favourite thing she likes to do.

Saturday just went, I can’t even remember what we did, nothing I think, we are all stll recovering from the previous weekend and the week. Karla’s been not 100% Sophie started to get unwell again, I’m still not better and Jessie is coughing a little and insists on that she is ill as well. (Doesn’t want to feel left out.)

Everyone except myself was passed out in bed by 7ish. I stayed up trying to get somethings working and watched a few saved shows on FoxTel, really sad old reruns of Star Trek Voyager and some new stuff.

Sunday Jessie and I went to swimming as Sophie was not well enough to go so she stayed home with Karla. On coming home we had a quick bite then back out to the Doctors for Sophie, myself and Karla to get checked out. Jessie decided she didn’t want to be good and was a pain the whole time there.

After the Doctors off to Westfield Parramatta to go clothes shopping for me and Karla. Again Jessie decided this was no fun and decided to let us all know about it for many hours.

Finally a stop for some food then home, both kids really tired so both off to bed, then house stuff.

Karla’s at home today with Sophie and I guess I will be home with her tomorrow when she is back off to see the Doctors again in the afternoon.

Did I forget to mention that Jessie decided to come in to our room at around 1.30am as her legs were sore. Then Sophie decided to wake up and scream out at around 3~3.30ish and play with her light switch. Then again at around 5.15am decided to wake up and not go back.

Karla also found Sophie playing with a biscut container from the kitchen in the lounge room this morning. Appears Miss Jessica took my custard creams from the kitchen and ate them in the morning and hid the container under her  kitchen sink.

This morning she also filled her bag up with various toys and took those to daycare without us knowing. It wasn’t until Karla saw her showing Emma all her stuff that she was found out, needles to say her toys were collected and returned home.

Sophie has been home sick for the past week with a bad cough and chest infection. She’s been on medicine at night and then ventolin 4 times a day. I’ve had something similar and stayed home to look after her for the week trying to get work done in between.

Karla has been working in her new role for her first week alone at Westpac as the EA to the Global Head of something. She’s been finding it challaging as the girl she is replacing for 9 months had to leave early before her full hand over. She is also having fun getting all her accesses in place to all of the systems she needs to use.

Jessie has been Jessie, she is really in to reading things now and spelling, every work or sign we go past she calles out various bits of it or asks how that spelt etc. She has been writing her own name now for a little while and seems to enjoy doing this.

Karla and I managed to get out the first time in ages (before Sophie was the last time) and saw Ross Noble at the Enmore theatre the other weekend. He was good and we both enjoyed the show. One of our friends Denis (and Christian) looked after the girls for us, apparently Jessie tried every trick she could to stay up and have a girl chat with Denis on the night.

Only bad thing was Denises car was smashed in to at around 12.30am by some idiot and has been written off, luckily Denis and Christian weren’t in the car, they would have been if it was a little later as we were literally walking out of the door to go to the car.

On Friday / Saturday I worked from 11pm to around 8.30am on our DRP for work, we then went out and had our family haircut outing and grabbed some fish and chips for diner that night. Around 6.30pm I logged back in to work to see how the DRP was going and things were just starting to happen after a huge delay from the night before so I helped out the guys until around 9pm. Needles to say I was pretty tied by them as I only got 2 hours sleep the night before and had been going all day.

On Sunday Karla took Jessica to swiming for the first time this season it’s about week 4 or 5 now. (We’ve all been sick each of the other weekends) She and Jessie had a good time toghter. I stayed home with Sophie as she still has some coughing and I was also not 100%. While at home I bathed Sophie and got her to have a little bit of a sleep as we had a birthday party to go to at 2pm for Jessie.

The birthday party was for one of Jessie’s friends from Day care, it was a ten pin bowling party and it was great fun all of the kids loved it they all behaved themselves and no injuries. Jessie now wants to learn her Mum how to bowl. (Yes she uses learn although we keep telling her you teach someone) Sophie loved all of the noise, lights and other kids running around the place.

After the party we had a look around and decided to go to a noodle place for diner, the food wasn’t quite what we thought it would be it was ok, but not the greatest. Karla felt a little sick afterwards but I was staving so I happily ate away. Sophie decided one of her crayons was better to eat, so we had to dig the end of it out of her mouth. I swear we only turned around for a second before she managed to eat the end of it off.

So another week startes, kids both at daycare again and Karla and I are back at work for another week.

Sophie was sick from Thursday to pretty much Sunday, with being more herself on Sunday and Monday. She has decided now that she doesn’t like going to bed and wants to sit or stand in her bed crying out until someone comes and gets her. So we’ve had to just go back in at night and wrap her up and put her back down, doing this several times until she learns that she wont be brought out at night. Also with the change in Day Light Savings she has been waking up 5ish or earlier yah.

Karla also got quiet sick on Friday ~ Sunday, so she was out of action for most of the weekend, so no Birthday party, no Easter show on the Saturday or Sunday. I also got the bug on Saturday night / Sunday morning but luckily it didn’t last very long for me.

Miss Jessica was 100% ok during this time and hasn’t got sick, which is good, but meant she had all of her energy while everyone else was under the weather.

On Monday Jessie was invited over to the Stirling house hold for a play date with Sophie (Stirling) and the other girls from Daycare as Sophie (Sirling) is no longer there and missing her old friends. I stayed home with Sophie so we played in the lounge room and did stuff.

Then around 2pm I got a call from work as there were some problems, of course my laptop decided it no longer wanted to connect to work anymore and I would have to go in to the office to do anything. So Karla and Jessie had to come home and look after Sophie while I went in to work.

The end of a great weekend.

Happy 1st Birthday Sophie

Our little girl Sophie is now a big one year old. Unfortunately she is still sick and is not really in a good mood for her birthday today.

So we’ll have to look at celebrating it when she feels better.

Last night just before bed she gave me a nice present of a spew shower, it was quite impressive and required me to shower to remove all of the vomit. So this morning I took her to the doctors for a check up, she’s been very quiet and mainly has just wanted to sleep. The doctor had a look and said yeap just a virus keep her quiet and plenty of fluids and nothing to oily to eat.

Also means that the big birthday party we had planned for her tomorrow is now off, so we have a nice big cake with her picture on it, plus a large number of Easter Eggs, which were going to be used for the Easter Egg hunt at the park. We had luckily not gone to get all of the other food yet so that wont go to waste.

We are just hoping now that it rains so we can get our money back for the shelter at the park.

Sophie still seems to have a little fever that comes and goes, so hopefully tomorrow with a good nights sleep and some more rest she will be back to her old self. (old ? she’s only just turning one.)

We’ve been busy as most people are these days.

Our bathroom has been mostly finished, I still need to sand and paint the door trim and clean and paint the ceiling. There are also the towel rail and toilet roll holder to go up as well. We are using some suction cup ones to test where the best place for these to go is.

Sophie is doing well, she is saying more words each day and has her sometimes serious and not so serious conversations with those around her. Currently she likes to laugh and chuckle, it’s quite funny when she does it. You can laugh and she will laugh back at you and this can go on for sometime. She has still been going to her swimming lessons and likes the pool, but she’s not so happy in the new bath by herself, thanks to a little Miss Jessica who we think sprayed her in the face a couple of times. She is also pulling herself up on items, not walking yet but most likely not to far from it. Of course her 1st birthday is just around the corner and Karla is busy getting things ready for that.

Miss Jessica is doing anything and everything, I don’t think she is capable of sitting still or being quiet for more than 10 seconds. She fell over last Sunday on her way to swimming lessions and grazed her knees and one of her hands, so now we get constant “Look at my knee” or “Look at my hand”. She is very interested in reading and learning her letters and numbers, she can spell out her name now and I think she knows a few words here and there as well.

Karla is looking for work and has been applying for jobs online and calling agencies and companies when able to, when the girls are in day care or a sleep. She has also doing / almost finished the job placement course that her old work provided when she was made redundant and has found this to be useful in how she presents herself to the various places.

Me busy at work on stuff I can’t tell you about and busy at home with the 3 girls.

We were lucky enough to catch up with Sheelagh last Sunday after swimming as she was down visiting a friend not to far from where we live, it was good to catch up and have a chat. It also gave her a chance to see the two girls now and give Sophie some  hugs.