I Love Thunder

Today we were forecast thunderstorms, the very thought of this makes me both happy and sad...because....

....I grew up in the Kimberly which has a wet and dry season. In the wet its hot, humid and it rains. But the best of all is the thunderstorms that develop. During the day its so hot and sticky and as the afternoon wears on you can see the thunder heads develop and eventually the distant sound of rolling thunder slowly getting closer and closer. By about 4pm the storm is above and the rain starts. Not the drizzle that happens here in Perth but true torrential rain, so cool and sweet and once it stops it leaves everything fresh and the smell is indescribable.

So I am sitting here listening to the thunder rolling through the sky loving every moment of it...but then

.....Eloise HATES thunder, she spent the first few years of her life in Kununurra so you would think she would be used to it but no, she hears the word thunder and her eyes become as large as saucers and she starts to shake....she is getting a bit better as she is getting older, at least she is not hanging off my leg anymore.
If there is thunder at night I am sure i can here it sooner than the local dogs as I know I will have a little visitor beside my bed terrified. I am a very light sleeper if they have forecast storms at night. The first distant rumble I am up checking on the kids making sure that they are sleeping through it.

Matthew doesn't like them either, at least he sleeps through them. During the day he just runs to his room and hides on his bed.


So do you like or loathe thunder?

Joel is one month old....

Wow time has flown and my baby boy is a month old today. He is growing like a weed and is out of 000 and into 00's. His little internal body clock is set on 3 hourly and we can set a clock 1o min each way for him to wake.
The only sad news is, and I am devastated over this, is that he is still refusing the breast and my supply is dropping. It has been 2 weeks now and I have tried all avenues to try and get him back on.
He is a very social little lad and loves to be up with the family.
I took some photos today.

Joel at 2 weeks

Joel at 2 weeks

We have a new computer!!!!!

After some serious saving and budgeting we went out and bought ourselves a new PC....

we now have a HP Pavilion Slimline, the tower is smaller than our DVD player..its tiny. We decided against a laptop

I am in love with it, though getting used to vista is interesting. The kids have my old one to play games on.

So now its the fun time of getting all our bookmarks set back up, email addresses and everything back....

Very excited

Hillarys Boat Harbour

Today we took Sharon to Hillarys Boat Harbour to have a look, the weather was being nice to us, not raining for once.
We had calamari and chips for lunch and then had a nice walk around.

Sharon and the Kids

here are some photos of Sharon and the four kids....

Going to Town...

Sharon has managed to change her ticket to fly out this Friday :( but in order to do that she needs to go to the South African Airlines office in Perth...

So after the morning rush of getting the girls to school and then Matthew to daycare we went on the train to Perth. We got off on the new underground station on the Murray St Mall and it was pouring down.... we had to try and get to St Georges Tce with out getting too wet...

Well we made it but Joel was not happy, he was hungry and now baby room in sight...I really detest bottle feeding. So we had a crying hungry baby, poring rain but Sharon managed to change her ticket. We found a baby room in David Jones where Joel was finally fed, we then got back on the train and then managed to get to Megs school in time to pick her up and then the girls....

the morning rush...

For the next 3 weeks Darian is on holidays and he has organised for Megan to stay with us while he is on holidays as well while Sharon is here.

So we have 3 kids to organise in the morning going to 2 different schools. Megan starts at 8.40am but Darian needs to leave at 8am to get there and my girls start at 8.35 and walk most morning unless it rains. Megan then finishes school at 2.40pm and my girls finished at 3pm...

to say this morning was interesting was an understatement...

Once all the kids were at school we took Sharon to lakeside to have a look around, we also signed and delivered our lease agreement so we will be staying here for another 6 months.

it was raining this afternoon so we managed to pick up Meg from school, drop her home with Sharon and then get to the girls school by 3 to pick them up....it can be done :)

a sad decision

Only afer a very short time here Sharon has decided to go home....seems she is missing her kids too much to stay. I understand as I missed mine so much when I was over in South Africa.

She is trying to change her flight for the coming Friday.....

Aunty Sharon Arrived....

This morning Darian and Megan went to the airport to get Sharon from the plane, they left very early and got back about 9ish...

Mum then packed her car and went home, I think she breathed a sigh of relief to finally get home to some piece and quiet. it was nice having her here.

Sharon bought lots of clothes for Joel from the family and some clothes for Matthew and the girls...presents all round :)

She instantly fell in love with Joel...who wouldn't....

What the doctor said....

Today George left but mum stayed to take me to the doctor, she is leaving tomorrow morning after Sharon arrives.

All the test results came back ok.....the doctor wasn't too happy about the amount of blood in the uterus and rung the radiologist but he wasn't there....

the antibiotics are working and the good news is that I take my last antibiotic on wed morn and Joel can go back on the breast Thursday morn.....

My doctor rang me later today after he spoke to the radiologist and he suggests I go back for a follow up ultrasound in 2 weeks to clear everything....

The ultrasound

well the sad thing is that Joel took to the bottle without hesitation, it also breaks my heart to tip my breast milk down the sink after I express.....

Today I went for my ultrasound and everything looks OK, no retained placenta but still a lot of blood, so we will see what the doctor says tomorrow.

I am trying to rest as much as possible and trying not to stress out...

A Bit of a Bummer

The last few days I have been getting pain high up in my tummy, no where near my scar which is giving me no pain at all. I thought it might be bruising coming out from getting my tubes done but the pain has been getting worse over the last few days so I thought I better go and see my doctor...

Well I am in a state of shock, disbelief and disappointment....

It looks as though I have a infection in my uterus...nothing to do with the c-section. So I am off for an ultrasound tomorrow to check for any retained products and I am on antibiotics. I was pretty blown away with all this...

However the worst was yet to come.....the antibiotics are NOT breastfeeding friendly....so while I am taking the AB's I cant breastfeed. I am devastated....I am going to continue to express while I am on the AB's to keep up my supply and hopefully Joel will go back on in a week.

A week old....

Wow time has flown by, Joel is a week old today

Day 3........Going Home

By this morning I was more than ready to go home. The lady next door was driving me bonkers with her mobile phone ringing, th hospital phone ringing and the constant visitors who had no volume control.
I asked the midwife at 6am if we could go and she said she would organize it. Darian had the day off from work so it would work out perfectly....

I had to be checked by the RMO and Joel had to be checked by the paediatrician which we both passed with flying colours....

We were ready to go......and the lady next door left at the same time!!!!!!

We were out of hospital by 1.30pm and we were to pick up Meg from school at 2.40pm. We surprised her by bringing Joel with us....

It was so nice to be home in my own bed, where I wouldn't feel bad if Joel was crying with wind pain....

2 days old