Getting Older & Bolder!!

Collectively Kids Farm Trip.

Kia Ora All,

Today we went to the Mt Albert Farm with our day care. We had a great time and even got to have a ride on a huge bus.

Hope you enjoy our photos!

Meg & Guy xx

Overnight in Starship

We had a night in Starship on Friday night. Guy hadn't been well for the two previous days - not eating, not taking his meds well and generally "droopy". We stayed overnight in isolation in a different part of Starship (we really are getting to see far too many different wards) as he is covered in spots which the doctors were concerned might be chicken pox (they aren't).

We were discharged later on Saturday but Bevan and I then seemed to have a tummy bug, so that may have been his problem. He just can't shake a bad cough he's had for weeks now. It shakes his whole little body, poor wee man, and he is throwing up with it most mornings.

We have our next appointment set in the heart clinic for a few weeks time so that will be a full work up and show what is going on with his heart.

Meg, in the meantime, had a wonderful weekend. She was whisked off to stay with Cormac for two nights. Aunty Rachel indulged her and she has gorgeous new haircut, pjs and undies!

Meg apparently decided that she should try swimming without arm bands... luckily Uncle Nick was prepared for the inevitable result and picked her up off the bottom of the pool before she drank too much! Hopefully the weather will play its part and there will be lots of time to learn to go arm bandless this summer.

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speed demon..

School holiday's are over so Bevan is back to work, but not before devising a new way to for the kids to entertain themselves... well, Meg at least. Guy hasn't quite got brave enough yet. I'm sure he will in a few more days and will add to the bumps and bruises he usually has.


The weather has been lovely. We haven't yet made it into the Hodhops pool but hopefully that will happen when Guy shakes his cough.

We have been to Cornwall park a couple of times, with the Alexanders then the Englands. Meg followed big bad Ben onto the flying fox and loved it. It's pretty quick! Bevan put the ball into the trees and then decided he would climb up to get it. Seriously. I tried to explain to him that it's a $2 ball and we don't need any more trips to hospital for broken bones! But no, it's a boy thing. The good news is that the kids liked the entertainment and no bones were broken. The bad news was the ball is still in the tree.

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