A belated Merry Christmas to you all (or those that are still out there that read)! I did mean to do an update on Christmas Eve but poor Rachel ended back at the Drs yet again!
After the constipation issue that I mentioned in my last blog, we were back at the Drs on the Friday with a suspected ear infection and high temp, then on Sunday she came out in spots on her feet, legs, arms - so Monday we were back at the Drs for confirmation that it was in fact Hand, Foot and Mouth (from the chicken pox family) which had just started going around daycare! No treatment for it as it is viral - so just have to wait it out and keep her away from other young children/babies for the time being. And then be extra vigilant about washing hands after nappy changes etc (which of course we all ready do).
We are off to Christchurch today and have emailed Jules so hopefully we may get the chance to catch up with her while we are there. Suitcases are packed (apart from last minute stuff) - gees I can't get over how much stuff one needs to take for a toddler! LOL And I thought I was bad when I went away.... LOL Charlie (the cockatiel) started his holiday last night (at a friend of Helena's) so its nice and peaceful here this morning though Rachel is wondering where he is!
Anyway, time for Rachel's breakfast... best I get moving - just wanted to do a post before disappearing for a week. Hope you all had a fantastic Christmas with your family, friends and loved ones. And may you all have a safe and happy new year and I will catch up with you when I get back next year! :) Thanks to all of those that stayed reading and supporting me over the last year despite this going from a weight loss blog to a general family one. I am hoping 2008 will be the year that I get my motivation back and get back on to the weight loss issue! Thanks again xxx
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Rachel and Santa 2007
Rachel and Santa 2006
I still can't get over the difference between them! Yes I know the obvious fact that she one year older but I just can't stop going back and forth between the two of them! Though this year, it wasn't as easy as handing her over... we had a huge screaming fit from her when I passed her to Santa so in the end I had to kneel by Santa (ain't no way I was gonna sit on his knee) and hold her hand to get that photo taken (and I cropped myself out)!
Can't believe that this time next week we will be in Christchurch!!! The time has flown by so quickly! We are so looking forward to catching up with Paula and Chris (who we are staying with) and then spending time with my brother and his kids (17 and 20) while we are there. I am also going to have a catch up with a work colleague who I talk to every day on the phone! Jules - I remembered yesterday that I never got back to your question re when I was coming down - well we fly in on Boxing Day and leave to come back home on the 2nd. Will email you my cellphone number and perhaps we can try to catch up too if you are going to be around and if you are keen that is! :)
We have had a full on week with last week Rachel and Steph being sick - yay I managed to avoid getting the bug! *phew* however this week we have gone to the other extreme (SHIT JUST HAD AN EARTHQUAKE) with Rachel having major constipation issues! Ended up at the After Hours with her last night as her stomach was rock hard and she was screaming every time she lay down and wouldn't let us touch her! So once again, she had an enema put up "there" but this time it did work so no manual work required this time! *phew* We were also advised to increase her dosage of lactulose as she was still on the infant dosage - though we had never been told to increase it whenever we got a repeat of it. So she has gone from 1ml twice a day to 5mls twice a day! Lets see what happens now...
Monday was great as our friends Paula and Chris (from Christchurch) and Paula's mum came up to Wellington for a 24hr visit as they had gotten $8 return fares on www.grabaseat.co.nz sometime ago. So we all went out for dinner along with our friend Lynaire (unfortunatley Kev was working) to a local carvery for a 3 course roast meal! It was a lovely night and we all had a great time and Rachel was very well behaved considering she ended up staying up approx 2 hrs later than normal...
Work has been chaotic over the last few weeks and there has been some yucky snapping etc going on around the team (myself included) - so I will be glad come midday tomorrow when we can go home and all have a break from each other for 2 weeks! 2 of the team are working the 3/4 January but the remaining 3 of us return on the 7th Jan. The 3 days in between are known as "Departmental" days which are great. We missed the group christmas do yesterday which was held at the Zoo however we had the Head Office BBQ today and that was fantastic. Some very talented people used the tunes of some popular carols and rewrote the words to fit around local DOC issues! :) We also got our company gift this year - and as it is the 20th anniversary of DOC being around we all got this really cool travel/gym bag! No goodies in the bag but compared to what we can usually get this is fantastic! :)
Anyway, best I get moving - still want to do an update on the parents forum that I belong to... and still need to finish off my christmas cards! Leaving it a bit late I know but will see how I go.
Rachel and Santa 2006
I still can't get over the difference between them! Yes I know the obvious fact that she one year older but I just can't stop going back and forth between the two of them! Though this year, it wasn't as easy as handing her over... we had a huge screaming fit from her when I passed her to Santa so in the end I had to kneel by Santa (ain't no way I was gonna sit on his knee) and hold her hand to get that photo taken (and I cropped myself out)!
Can't believe that this time next week we will be in Christchurch!!! The time has flown by so quickly! We are so looking forward to catching up with Paula and Chris (who we are staying with) and then spending time with my brother and his kids (17 and 20) while we are there. I am also going to have a catch up with a work colleague who I talk to every day on the phone! Jules - I remembered yesterday that I never got back to your question re when I was coming down - well we fly in on Boxing Day and leave to come back home on the 2nd. Will email you my cellphone number and perhaps we can try to catch up too if you are going to be around and if you are keen that is! :)
We have had a full on week with last week Rachel and Steph being sick - yay I managed to avoid getting the bug! *phew* however this week we have gone to the other extreme (SHIT JUST HAD AN EARTHQUAKE) with Rachel having major constipation issues! Ended up at the After Hours with her last night as her stomach was rock hard and she was screaming every time she lay down and wouldn't let us touch her! So once again, she had an enema put up "there" but this time it did work so no manual work required this time! *phew* We were also advised to increase her dosage of lactulose as she was still on the infant dosage - though we had never been told to increase it whenever we got a repeat of it. So she has gone from 1ml twice a day to 5mls twice a day! Lets see what happens now...
Monday was great as our friends Paula and Chris (from Christchurch) and Paula's mum came up to Wellington for a 24hr visit as they had gotten $8 return fares on www.grabaseat.co.nz sometime ago. So we all went out for dinner along with our friend Lynaire (unfortunatley Kev was working) to a local carvery for a 3 course roast meal! It was a lovely night and we all had a great time and Rachel was very well behaved considering she ended up staying up approx 2 hrs later than normal...
Work has been chaotic over the last few weeks and there has been some yucky snapping etc going on around the team (myself included) - so I will be glad come midday tomorrow when we can go home and all have a break from each other for 2 weeks! 2 of the team are working the 3/4 January but the remaining 3 of us return on the 7th Jan. The 3 days in between are known as "Departmental" days which are great. We missed the group christmas do yesterday which was held at the Zoo however we had the Head Office BBQ today and that was fantastic. Some very talented people used the tunes of some popular carols and rewrote the words to fit around local DOC issues! :) We also got our company gift this year - and as it is the 20th anniversary of DOC being around we all got this really cool travel/gym bag! No goodies in the bag but compared to what we can usually get this is fantastic! :)
Anyway, best I get moving - still want to do an update on the parents forum that I belong to... and still need to finish off my christmas cards! Leaving it a bit late I know but will see how I go.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Hi all
Wow! What a full on time of the year it is with so much happening and so little time to do everything though after reading Rachel's list of things she still has to do I think I have bugger all to do but to me it seems like a lot! :)
We have had a full on few days as Rachel was sent home early on Friday from daycare due to a runny nappy and a big power chuck... and although only did two power chucks (both on Friday) she has had diaherra since then - some days are worse than others... so she has not been a happy lass and very clingy! Steph stayed home with her on Monday but when I rung after lunch to see how things were going - he was not well at all and had caught her bug and was going at both ends!!! So I jumped on the train and headed home to look after both of them! I ended up calling Steph's dad at 7pm to ask him to take Steph to the After Hours as he was not well at all and was on the verge of dehydration.... he finally got home at 6am the next morning after spending the night in A&E on a drip!!! So yesterday all three of us were home and although Steph spent majority of the day sleeping off and on... I was totally and utterly shattered!!! Today, he went to work but I had a full on day at home with Rachel who demanded my full attention the whole day and at one stage I was almost in tears wanting to go to work for a rest and some peace and quiet!
Sounds like Steph wants me to spend tomorrow at home with Rachel too as he doesn't think he would have the patience to look after her if she is still so demanding (and he is probably right there too) so looks like I will be home tomorrow as well! Really bad time of the year for me to have time off but hey thats life and life sure can be a Bitch at times!!! The boss says "fine - family comes first" but when I go back I get the subtle hints about how inconvenient it was that I was away etc...
Anyway, it is now almost 10pm and this has taken me over an hour to write as my friend Paula from Christchurch rung for a good ole catch up :) So will try to another update soon to say everything else I was gonna say tonight... so will be back later :)
Wow! What a full on time of the year it is with so much happening and so little time to do everything though after reading Rachel's list of things she still has to do I think I have bugger all to do but to me it seems like a lot! :)
We have had a full on few days as Rachel was sent home early on Friday from daycare due to a runny nappy and a big power chuck... and although only did two power chucks (both on Friday) she has had diaherra since then - some days are worse than others... so she has not been a happy lass and very clingy! Steph stayed home with her on Monday but when I rung after lunch to see how things were going - he was not well at all and had caught her bug and was going at both ends!!! So I jumped on the train and headed home to look after both of them! I ended up calling Steph's dad at 7pm to ask him to take Steph to the After Hours as he was not well at all and was on the verge of dehydration.... he finally got home at 6am the next morning after spending the night in A&E on a drip!!! So yesterday all three of us were home and although Steph spent majority of the day sleeping off and on... I was totally and utterly shattered!!! Today, he went to work but I had a full on day at home with Rachel who demanded my full attention the whole day and at one stage I was almost in tears wanting to go to work for a rest and some peace and quiet!
Sounds like Steph wants me to spend tomorrow at home with Rachel too as he doesn't think he would have the patience to look after her if she is still so demanding (and he is probably right there too) so looks like I will be home tomorrow as well! Really bad time of the year for me to have time off but hey thats life and life sure can be a Bitch at times!!! The boss says "fine - family comes first" but when I go back I get the subtle hints about how inconvenient it was that I was away etc...
Anyway, it is now almost 10pm and this has taken me over an hour to write as my friend Paula from Christchurch rung for a good ole catch up :) So will try to another update soon to say everything else I was gonna say tonight... so will be back later :)
Monday, December 03, 2007
Hi all
Just thought I would do a quick update to let you know that I missed out on the job that was based locally! Bit of a bummer really but I guess that's life and just means that it wasn't meant to be and that there is another job that is even better out there for me somewhere sometime...
Apart from that all going well - just extremely busy at work and am counting down to our break in Christchurch over the holiday period.
Rachel doing really well - though is starting to get a bit cocky when trying to balance/walk and twice in the last 24hrs has fallen - hit her chin on the table (at home and daycare) and her top teeth have gone through her bottom lip! OUCH!
We were up at Mums yesterday and Rachel had a ball chasing Barney mums cat around the house! Poor Barney used to have more tolerance with kids but I think Rachels cousins have taunted him enough so poor Rachel doesn't get the fun of being able to pat him etc...
Oh here is another photo of Rachel taken after her godparents wedding - just thought I would share it as you can see her top "fangs" in it - thank goodness her middle two top teeth are starting to cut through!
Right time to get moving.... catch ya all later
Just thought I would do a quick update to let you know that I missed out on the job that was based locally! Bit of a bummer really but I guess that's life and just means that it wasn't meant to be and that there is another job that is even better out there for me somewhere sometime...
Apart from that all going well - just extremely busy at work and am counting down to our break in Christchurch over the holiday period.
Rachel doing really well - though is starting to get a bit cocky when trying to balance/walk and twice in the last 24hrs has fallen - hit her chin on the table (at home and daycare) and her top teeth have gone through her bottom lip! OUCH!
We were up at Mums yesterday and Rachel had a ball chasing Barney mums cat around the house! Poor Barney used to have more tolerance with kids but I think Rachels cousins have taunted him enough so poor Rachel doesn't get the fun of being able to pat him etc...
Oh here is another photo of Rachel taken after her godparents wedding - just thought I would share it as you can see her top "fangs" in it - thank goodness her middle two top teeth are starting to cut through!
Right time to get moving.... catch ya all later
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