...and we're back.. ...and it's found!

Phew.. we made it! A whole hour with no lights or TV or computers.. shocking, I know!

I basically read a magazine by candle light, and Tony fiddled on his laptop (couldn't completely get him away from the technology ;-).

AND the other day.. guess what Tony found next to the front wheels of his car...


Apparently he sprayed again on Thursday and Friday morning this is what he found. His paranoia paid off ;-)

Big sucker wasnt it??

Earth Hour

In 30 minutes we are going to turn off all non essential appliances including TV and computers.

Aaaaagggghhhhhh!!!!!!!

If I'm not back an hour later, call out the patrols!

Josie and the Wild and Ferocious Caterpillar

This morning at kindy Josie and the rest of her class were drawing Wild Animals from pictures in a book.

Well they were supposed to be anyway...Josie of course had her own ideas and would not be swayed.

Alex: Josie, is that a wild animal?
Josie: *shakes head and puts on shy cheeky grin* It's a catapilla!
Alex: Wouldn't it be nice to draw a wild animal?
Josie: *nods as if about to comply*
Josie: *goes back to drawing caterpillar*
...time passes...
Alex: Josie, so what animal have you drawn?
Josie: It's a catapilla! *holding up the completed picture proudly*

Uncle Mat would be proud of this display of passive-resistance. He was a master of such when he was Josies age (and later).

Sickness in the Hill Household And the Dirty Great Spider

On Friday evening Josie came down with a 38.5 degree fever and until Sunday her temp was only kept down by Neurofen. Also over the weekend each night she complained of an itchy bum. We of course thought it was threadworm.

We made the decision to keep her home from school on Monday while Tony took her to see Dr Robert. Robert diagnosed her with a UTI almost immediately and put her on antibiotics straight away. This morning (Tuesday) she had no fever but we decided to keep her home anyway (well at Baba's).

Now yesterday morning Tony woke up not feeling well either so he took the day off work as well.

And yesterday afternoon I started feeling a sore throat and slight fever. By the time I got home after work my throat was killing me and my fever was at 38.7 eventually rising to 39 degrees.

Last night was the worst night ever. I tossed and turned all night, unable to relax or even breathe because my tonsils had swollen up so much I couldnt swallow.

So today Tony took the morning off to take Josie to mums and me to see Dr Robert. We dropped Josie off at Baba's (on the way Josie was saying that she wanted to sleep at Baba's tonight, which was difficult because Mum doesn't drive and she needed to get to school tomorrow), so as we were driving throught the Harbour Tunnel on the way to the north, I suddenly see a great big dirty Huntsman crawling in the foot space on the passenger side of the car (where I was sitting!). I wouldn't say I screamed but I did gasp quite loudly before throwing my legs up on the dashboard while the huntsman ran down and out of sight somewhere in the foot space area. Great. At this point I was pleading with Tony to find the breakdown bay in the Tunnel and pull over. Those of you who know Tony, know very well how he feels about spiders, especially Huntsmen, so quite predictably Tony was freaking out a bit. Luckily the Breakdown Bay wasn't too far off and we pulled over and threw ourselves out of the car.

Now I don't usually get hysterical, but I was hyperventilating and whimpering like a baby at this point, which with my sore throat, 38 degree fever and the tunnel exhaust fumes, well it wasn't fun.

After about 10 minutes of searching the passenger side, and pulling out the steering lock as far as it would go and locking it into place, I seated myself at the back, and Tony drove very carefully to the Drs.

While I went in to see the Dr, Tony went to the petrol station across the road and bought a big can of bug spray. which he proceeded to spray inside and outside and over the wheels and under the bonnet of the car, much to the amusement of the people inside the dr's office.

So I saw Dr Robert, he said I had tonsilitis and gave me a script for antibiotics and sent me on my way. We got the meds, walked back to the car and then carefully drove home.

At this point I rang my mum and told her Josie would have to stay there tonight cause at this point I am highly contagious. All were delighted at this fortunate turn of events. All except me, with the fever, and Tony who will have to drive to mums tomorrow morning early to get josie to school on time.

We got home and Tony was going to go to work but he wasn't feeling well again so he stayed home. And we never did find the Huntsman.

So now my temp has been as high as 39.6, Tony has thrown me into a tepid bath, I have had a tepid shower, I am FREEZING, sitting in front of the air con, my head is throbbing and my temp is currently at 39.5.

On the plus side, Tony went out and got me ice cream! LOL.

Update

By about 7pm my temp had hit 40.2 which freaked me out a bit so after another tepid shower I decided it was time to check out the hospital. Glad I did too. They gave me panadeine which knocked out the fever, but then also IV antibiotics and a steroid to take the swelling from my tonsils. Its after midnight and we have just got home. My temp is 37 degrees, my throat still hurts but is about 50% better. I might go get some sleep now! Its been a long couple of days!!

Daddy and Baby

Josie has been sick all weekend. high fever, throwing up etc. Neurofen has been keeping the temps down but the poor thing has been quite bored at home all weekend.

Yesterday afternoon we went to Baba's for dinner and she played with her cousins Becka and Jayden, but was quite out of sorts.

Today we have been home all day and she has been so bored. We have been through Nemo, Prince of Egypt, Road to El Dorado an The Incredibles.

This afternoon Tony was lying on her couch and Josie was playing with him. Josie was 'Daddy' and Tony was 'the Baby'!

Josie: This is your 'try' for today
Daddy: What is it?
Josie: Vegemite toast. Do you like it?
Daddy: No. I dont like it.
Josie: Ok, next time your 'try' will be pancakes. I'm going shopping to get some pancakes, you stay there.
[Goes to the kitchen, comes back]
Josie: Ok, here is some pancake. Do you like it?
Daddy: Yes! Yum yum yum!
Josie: Its dirty.
Daddy: What? Its dirty?
Josie: Yes, I dropped it.
Daddy: Ewww, yuck! No!
Josie: Ok Ill get you some more pancake.
[Goes to kitchen, comes back]
Josie: Ok, heres some more. I didn't drop it this time.
Daddy: Yum yum!
Josie: Now I'm going to work. Now don't cry!
Daddy: Waaaaaaaa!
Josie: Ok I'll read you a story, but then you're going to sleep!
Daddy: Ok.
Josie: Now its time for some medicine.
Daddy: Yuck, no no..
Josie: But its orange!
Daddy: I don't want medicine!
Josie: You have to have it because you are sick. But you can't have yogurt because you are sick. I will put it in the fridge.
[Goes to the kitchen, comes back]
Josie: Right, its in the fridge, you can't have it. Now I'm going to work.
Daddy: Waaaaaa!!
Josie: Ok Ill stay for a little while.
Daddy: Ok!
Josie: Now its been a little while, I'm going to work.
Daddy: Waaaaaa!
Josie: I have to go to work!
Daddy: Nooo!! don't go!
Josie: I have to go to work to buy you presents!
Daddy: Oh! Presents, I like presents!
[Goes to couch and gets a bunch of soft toys and gives them to baby].

When Daddy's Away..

Tony drove down to Canberra last night for some show or conference or something today, so he told Josie that he wouldn't be here to put her to bed or in the morning.

She was vey good and went to bed without a problem.

In the morning I was getting her dressed on her bed..

Josie: Where's Daddy?
Mari: He's away, remember?
Josie: So then, can I scream now??

LOL

I tell her not to scream in the mornings cause Daddy is sleeping.. hehehe

The Cat, The Dog and Their Sheepy Babies

First a quote from Red Dwarf:

Lister: I'm going to Fiji. I'm going to have a sheep and a cow and breed horses.

And now a word from the pre-school..

This morning, Josie and Rachel created a story while molding with the play dough and the animals. Very patiently, they dictated their story to Alex.

This is the story of Cats and Dogs:

Once upon a time there was a cat and a dog marrying each other. The dog was wearing a marrying thing called pants, the cat was wearing a yellow dress. They started to have lots of friends coming to the “marrying party”. Their friends were: a cow, a sheep, a horse, a pig, a nice goat and a kitty cat.

They ate chocolate cake with yellow and purple icing.

Then the cat and dog had lots of babies, sheeps and cows. They were a happy family.

After laughing for a good 10 minutes, I wiped the tears from my eyes and proceeded to show a lot of people from work.

Another Catchup

My mum has been complaining for two weeks that I haven't updated the blog in too long so here I am.

Life continues to be quite hectic.

Josie is enjoying her Dancing and Swimming classes on the weekend and loves putting on her gorgeous pink leotard and tap shoes. She loves tap and she loves Jazz and she loves to sing anytime she can. She certainly doesn't get that from me!

Her swimming is getting very very good. She can now dog paddle about 15 metres with her back bubble down to two boards, and she can even dog paddle and keep herself above water without any bubble at all, treading water all by herself. It's thrilling to watch.

I have also been swimming, and going to aqua aerobics on Tuesdays and Thursdays after work. That has been great too. And work is fabulous still. I love my job, I finally feel like I am working where I was meant to be working. I just love it.

So last week Tony and I had our 9th wedding anniversary. We went to a lovely Taiwanese place in Pyrmont for dinner and Tony got me a bunch of chocolate from the Lindt Chocolat Cafe. Yummmm!!!!

Then last Friday was the Purim Parade and show. Josie went as Princess Jasmine from Aladdin. She looked so cute! Rachel went as a ballerina and they looked so cute together! All the kids looked so gorgeous. They all sat around in a big circle and sang songs and danced around and then all walked around the playground showing off their costumes.

The next day we met Roman, Helen and Stacey at a Fun House near their place. The girls had a great time climbing all over the equipment and going down the giant blow up slide.

Last Wednesday the school had a Parent Information night that Tony and I attended while Josie slept at Granny's place. It was a great night with a wonderful presentation on what the preschool offers, which we really already knew, but they did a powerpoint presentation with photos of the kids which was great! At the end of the presentation, they got us all to paint a picture, or make something with playdoh for the kids. Tony and I each painted a picture and Josie was very surprised the next morning to find a present from mummy and daddy.

Thats pretty much it from me.

I have uploaded a heap of photos to Flickr. See the link on the right to Josie's photos.

Och By Footen!!

So we're watching Funniest Home Video's at 11pm on Thursday night and Tony gets an SMS from his mum..

I off need to change cars with you tomorrow i footen do not have my car only fads

After about 10 mins of hysterical laughing, Tony replies..

By footen i don't want fads car but ok. Footem de footen.

I can barely type this through the tears streaming down my face...