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| Exciting news
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Posted 4:08 PM on Sun-5-May-2013
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I'm going to be an aunty!We went out for brunch for stepdad's 65th birthday and my little sis made her big announcement. She's 30 and got married a bit over a year ago so we've sort of been expecting it but so exciting nonetheless.I'm actually an aunty a few times over already on dp's side of the family, and to kids who live overseas on my side, but this is my favourite sister and she lives here in chch.Ooooohhhh, I'll have an excuse to go buying those gorgeous wee baby clothes again!
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| Flying the coop and country
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Posted 7:39 PM on Tue-30-Apr-2013
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We are all feeling a little sad today Mr21 has flown the coop and the country and now resides in Australia, Brisbane to be precise.He will however be back for a couple of special birthdays next month (My Ah-Hm, 40th and Mr17's, 18th) Which are on the same day. Don't know when we will next see our grandbaby however :(. Other than that the school holidays are flying along. Funny though as the kids have gotten older how much games (xbox etc.) have become such a sticking point and I basicly have to force the older kids to go outside or go see a mate. Although Mr17 advises me he is talking and hanging with his friends via xbox live :P!We also haven't managed any sleep in&
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| Skipping along
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Posted 11:01 PM on Fri-12-Apr-2013
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ds3 and I dropped off the other boys at school today and as we were walking back through the grounds he asked me what skip counting is. He'd heard ds2 use the term. I told him it's a way of counting without saying all the numbers, you skip over some of them. Do all the skips have to be the same size he asked. I nodded.So it goes zero, one, three, five, seven, nine, eleven, thirteen, fifteen, nineteen, twenty...?He lost his pattern slightly at the end there but I was properly impressed. When did you learn that, I asked? You just told me how, silly.Sometimes he seems like such a baby that I can't imagine him starting school in a couple of months so when he has his moments of bri
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| Pretend war games
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Posted 5:17 PM on Tue-26-Mar-2013
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I've just been listening to my younger boys playing a pretend war game with a batch of playdough and some random toys. They thought I was making muffins so they carried on without wanting or expecting my input.It's just amazing, the richness of language, detailed negotiations and complexity of thought that go on during one of these games. The boys are 4 and 7 and yet they were using words like change form, metamorphosis, protect, implode, tattered, theropod (yes dinos involved lol), predator, omnivore, oceanic, shielded, engage in battle, immune. They negotiated each character's special weapons and skills, which went where, when each was damaged or killed unconscious
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| Theres a lot to be learnt from your children
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Posted 8:14 PM on Fri-22-Mar-2013
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I learnt another lesson today from my happy little 20 month old. I tend to hold onto grudges and things against other people, as people (possibly especially females) often do. Today I was walking to the letterbox with my wee girl and she threw an enormous tantrum because I wouldn't let her walk onto the road........ anyway 20 seconds later, after I had carried her screamed stiff little body away from the road, she gave me a cute little dimpled grin and danced around on the grass, grievance completely forgotten. I realised at the time, there is something so incredibly special about the acceptance and innocence of a toddler.
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| A busy couple of weeks
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Posted 10:12 AM on Mon-18-Mar-2013
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What a busy couple of weeks it has been and it looks as though it is to continue this week. I have had my daughter in-law in and out of hospital and finally on thursday she got her operation to fix her condition. It took for her to get really sick, before they decided to take her off the waiting list and operated on. So I have been backwards and forwards to Rotorua hospital which is an hr away and we have a trip to Waikato hosp this week. My grandbaby is only 4 mths and is breastfeed so my daughter in law needs a support person with her to care for baby while she is in theatre and to help post op.Hospitals just have no idea when it comes to a patient with a breastfe
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| Update from Mumbum
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Posted 9:58 AM on Sat-2-Mar-2013
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Hi everyone. I had a phone call from Mumbum this morning, asking me to give you an update on her Big Boy. He has just been diagnosed Rheumatic Heart Disease, which is a serious complication of Rheumatic Fever. Yesterday the decision was made to operate on him, and so he underwent open heart surgery. They have replaced the heart valves and have also had to drain his lungs of fluid. Sounds like the little guy is a trooper though, and has been in high spirits the entire time, even though he is feeling miserable.Mumbum tells me the staff at Starship are fantastic and super supportive, so its great to here they are all being taken care of. Mumbum is, although really tired, doing well. M
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| Make like a tourist.
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Posted 9:04 AM on Mon-25-Feb-2013
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This weekend, like many others of late has had the most wonderful weather. The Bloke and I decided it was high time we got out as a family and did some outdoorsy activities.Saturday we went to one of our fav beaches. The Legend tried snorkeling for the first time, and we had a fun filled day enjoying what the beautiful Coromandel has to offer.Sunday, we took the kids on their first bush walk. Now, it's not that we haven't wanted to do bush walks with them before, however the trouble here is that the bush walks are steep! And we've been putting it off and putting it off because we figured we'd be a bit like the Grand ol' Duke of York and end up half way up, neither up
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| Guilt about crutches ....
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Posted 11:15 AM on Mon-11-Feb-2013
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I have an overwhemling amount of guilt at the moment being laid up on crutches. My poor wee lad who isn't confident on going to his classroom on his own (he's just started year 1) has had to go in with neighbours since he started at school as I can't use my crutches to get all the way to his classroom which is on the furtherest side of school. I haven't even met his teacher yet ! And my littliest lad has had to go to kindy with neighbours too and not have mum hang out with him for the first 10 minutes. Sigh . I've got an appointment with the fracture clinic tomorrow so maybe if I talk really nicely they'll let me out of the ca
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