Recovering …
from whooping cough has taken a while but once normal service had resumed those of us left at home headed out to one of my favourite spots, North Head.
It was a dull day but the colour of the water was beautiful
No seals or whales this time, we did look, but there were hands to be held and the rain had made some wonderful puddles to find instead.
( This photo will always make me smile – or cry I am not sure yet!)
My birthday came and went and I honestly can’t remember what happened, I think we were still suffering from sleepless nights generated by coughs, but there were some fun moments including the appearance in the garden of these little sweet things…
And the nightly ritual of feeding the animals.
He honestly comes running when the biscuits hit the bowls and is waiting with the cats for them to be put down. Oh well it might help with his weight gain!
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A long time ago…
I wrote a post, in May in fact – shocking! What has happened since then. Well lots so I thought I might try to let you know a little at a time so that this does not turn out to be an epic post.
So since the last post was 2nd May, the next big date was our 10 year wedding anniversary on the 20th. Pete had planned a romantic night away in the city, the babysitter was booked in for the night and we were prepping the children as to who was going to look after them and how they had to behave. Then the test results came back – Pete had developed whooping cough. Everything was canceled, no meetings, a week off work, enough antibiotics to start our own pharmacy, school missed, and so on. This would not have been too bad if we hadn’t already gone through Rachel and Mac possibly having it and Josh definitely having it. By this point neither of us were really standing – well George was but only just!
I have a far greater respect for contagious bugs at this point. The speed and devastation which they move with is impressive, as is the quantity of meds required to defeat them. So after a few days of rain and quarantine the gloves were off and the ‘master’ was up for challenging!
Judging by the cash George ended up with he had been taught well!
For those of us not up the the challenge of the hard sums needed to add those millions, we played this …
Pass the bag, a wonderful game which teaches children colours, shapes and develops their fine motor skills, it is played like bingo, except that sometimes it is too tempting and you just have to peep into the bag!
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Oooo quick quick
… the blog is working again quick let me post something! We went to Taronga zoo as part of our Easter holidays, and no we didn’t go to see the new baby elephant. We did see it but what we really wanted to see was this…
These beautiful, and suprisingly huge leopard seals – with very odd shaped heads. I didn’t realise they are so big! The photo needs some scale to it, but if that thing was standing on its tail it would easily be taller than a man. These were rescued from local beaches and brought back to health, unfortunately they cannot be released back into the wild, but that does mean we get to admire them for a little longer. They are so fast and graceful through the water, not so good on land mind you.
On the way back up from the seals we had a quick paddle in the pretend beach.
Just look at that view, yes the real sea is that colour! These animals have some of the best views of Sydney harbour, I wonder how much they paid…
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Lovely photos – thank you for posting them x