Happy Australia Day!!

Well we've had a sick little boy this week. Poor Jack has just been miserable. On Monday he had puffy eyes and was saying that his left eye hurt and he had temps in the high 38's and was awake every couple of hours at night. On Tuesday Owen took the day off and the boys stayed home together while I went to work. Owen said he wasn't too bad and in the afternoon he seemed fine, happily playing but then his fever started going up again and he was quite upset so I called 13HEALTH while Owen had a shower with him and they said just to go to the doctors within the next 48 hours or go to hospital if his temp got over 40. So anyway, Owen went out to his poker game and after about 2 hours of crying and Jack's temp getting over 39 he got a red rash on his thighs so I phoned Owen went and picked him up and we went up to the hospital. They gave him panodol and we waited about 20 minutes to see the doctor and by then he was perky as anything, in fact he was quite the charmer. He did everything the doctor asked, stick out your tongue etc. and she even let him listen to her heart with the stethescope. So everything checked out fine and off home we went to another night of being up every couple of hours. Wednesday was a little better, Wednesday night up every couple of hours, Thursday bad morning, made a doctor's appointment, got there and Jack was fine, happy and chirpy, Thursday night not so good but better than the rest of the week. Friday morning, goo coming out of his ear, Owen's day off luckily so they stayed home, phoned doctors and the sister said to come in, saw doctor and he said he's fine but that he'd give us a script for anti-biotic's in case due to the long weekend. Dosed him up and Saturday he's fine!! It was a looooooooong week and I'm soooo glad he's feeling better. Poor little bugger.

So anyhoo, on to Australia day...

We had a great day yesterday after a very slooooooow start (sorry Kim). Jack didn't wake up until after 11 (didn't go to sleep until 1am) so when he got up we headed down to the beach to meet Kim and Jared and check out the Australia Day festivities. They had markets with jumping castles and rides and things, an all day concert including Dorothy the Dinosaur and beach activites like sand castle building comps and beach races.

We got the just in time to see Dorothy. Here's Jack singing Rock-a bye your Bear...

Then we went and the boys had a turn on the jumping castle...And then the cup and saucer ride...

After that we headed down to the beach and the kids had a great time splashing about in the water. Jack is funny with water. He freaks out in the pool but seems okay at the beach. He got dumped yesterday and still happily went back for more. Scared the bejesus out of me though. He was lying down on his tummy in the shallows and a wave came and rolled him onto his back. His little face was under water and these big eyes were looking up at me filled with panic. Poor baby. He was upset but got over it pretty quickly. I think the fun of splashing around with Jared was enough to overcome the incident.

We then sat on the beach and had some crackers and dip and juice and then after Kim and Jared left Jack had a bit of a dig in the sand (naughty Mummy left the bucket and shovel in the car so the poor kid had to use plastic cups).

They had the most spectacular kites flying all day.

Jack had a little sort of turn at fling the little ladybeetle (he held the rope that was pegged to the ground).

Then we stopped and listened to a great local band, Busby Marou, for a few songs before having one last turn on the cup and saucer, a turn on the clown game and then headed home.

When we got back to Rocky we went and checked out the river which is due to flood any day now. Here's a piccy.

We'll be fine where we live even though there's a creek at the end of the street (thanks for asking girls).

And then last night I met up with Kim and a couple of her friends to see 27 Dresses. I really liked the movie, it was sweet and funny but the couple in front of us got up and left the theatre.

It's been a great long weekend so far and tomorrow our Mum's and Bub's group is meeting up to go to the Rock Pool Water Park so that should be great too, even the Dad's are coming.

Ok, ciao