Sick family update...

For those of you who are concerned:

• Joanna is fully recovered
• Ben was a lot better by this afternoon (he felt well enough to go outside and play in the sandpit and tree house) - not quite back to normal, but getting there
• Naomi is still extra tired
• Peter is feeling tired but his belly doesn't seem to be overly affected
• I thought I was getting a bit better half way through today, but then got a bit worse again as the afternoon wore on

Tree house additions...

A couple of months ago I built a tree house for the kids... and said that I needed to construct a rope ladder for it. I didn't have any dowel to use for the rungs, so nothing happened for a while. A couple of weeks ago I got the dowel, and yesterday I finally got around to actually putting the ladder together. Today, I tied it up in the tree, along with a pulley system so the kids can lift stuff up into the tree house. Both were a big hit with all the kids - they had lots of fun climbing up and down and lifting leaves up into the house!

Family portraits

On Christmas day we took the opportunity to take family photos. Here they are:

us

van Gemsts

Colyers

Christmas day

Christmas day seems like sooo long ago now. We had a really good day...special breakfast (cinnamon brioche and brioche with berries), Church, present opening...followed by lunch (with the van Gemsts and Colyers)...some DVD watching (the kid's watched Toy Story 2 which Ben had got as a present) and game playing (the adults played one of Bill's games).

I can see the light at the end of the tunnel!

Writing about sickness reminded me that in the business of the last couple of weeks, i have yet to mention that i have an actual surgery date for getting my tonsils out! The date is the 14th of January. So after 4.5 years of almost constant antibiotic consumption, I will finally get a permanent solution to the problem. (I just have to get through the 2 weeks of pain post surgery)

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sick family

It looks like all of us have caught the bug joanna and Ben have. I think i've had it for a few days already but thought the symptoms were my IBS flaring due to my really busy lead up to Christmas. Peter and Naomi have now also come down with the common symptoms. Hopefully we are all over it before we leave for our beach holiday next week.

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sick kids

Joanna was feeling off colour all of Christmas day...threw up in her bed that night...and has been feeling really tired and hasn't been eating much since.
Ben woke up this morning complaining of a sore belly...ate 1/2 a slice of toast + some milk...belly then evacuated its contents.

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blogging void

Like most bloggers I've been extremely quiet in the busyness of the lead up to Christmas. Here's a summary of what has been going on:
Last week we went to the dinosaur exhibition at the museum. The kids had lots of fun with all the interactive parts.
I also spent a couple of days last week cooking stuff in preparation for Christmas day.
On boxing day we left for Taupo for a couple of nights while Peter and Bill went bushwalking/tramping.

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mobile blogging

Just installed a blogger app on my phone so i can easily post blogs from my phone.

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And then there were three...

Our sick chook was dispatched last night. It was no longer able to stand, so it wasn't going to recover, and today was rubbish collection day, so we thought we should move it along. The kids were playing round the other side of the house when we did it - until Joanna wondered around and asked what we were doing. She wasn't upset at all - she actually thought it was a bit funny, so I had to tell her that it's not really funny to have to kill one of our chickens...