Another week.....

Family Pic from Rob's Birthday

Super Jade!
Clean after Birthday Party!

Ok, so it's been over a week since my last post...

What's been happening around town?

Well, firstly Monday was Jade's 3rd swimming lesson without me in the pool - Sharon (the instructor) decided that we should try having me in the room so that Jade could see that I wasn't leaving her.... well - that wasn't working.... and when I tried to put jade into the water she grabbed on with everything she had available... which unfortunately meant that she gripped my upper arm with her teeth... (and I still have a bit of a bruise and two puncture wounds after a week)...

Jade wasn't settling in the class - so I told Sharon that I was probably better off not being in the room... so I left and she quietened down after about 10mins... So, it was our best lesson yet....
Monday was also Rob's 36th Birthday... So we had a BBQ at home with my parents, Rob's mom, my grandmother, my brother and his fiance.... so that was a nice evening....

Tuesday morning I got up - not feeling overly flash.... but just figured that I was dreading going back to work after having a nice three days off.... I got into work... and wasn't getting any better... was going downhill fast... was the start of a gastro attack... so I went home before infecting workmates (who hadn't arrived at work yet)... I came home and spent the entire day in bread eating only 1 slice of bread and 1 apple... which came up pretty much straight after - so I gave up eating for the rest of the day... and managed to sleep through most of it....

Wednesday - I was fine... still feeling a little drained of energy... but other than that - was much better than the day before... but now it was Rob's turn... (not that he stays in bed.... )

Thursday - Rob was fine - and his Mom now had the bug... so I was really starting to panic about Jade picking it up... but we got lucky..... Rob's mom was still sick on Friday... but Jade was in daycare both days - which was a good thing for her....

Thursday was a day off work for me, we had the 8 week checkup with the Dr to find out if we're good to go with planning another baby...

The Dr advised that there was an infection in the amniotic fluids which is what caused my body to terminate the pregnancy... any further along and the infection may have spread to my uteris causing more problems for down the track.... so I guess in a way - we're lucky that it ended as soon as it did.....

There are no concerns for future pregnancies - as this is just one of those things that happens ... and there's no reason for it to ever happen again... it's very random...

Anyway, so Friday night we went out for dinner because it was Rob's mom's last night in town..
Then Saturday morning Jade and I left at 9am to head to Rocky for my cousin (Jaime)'s son's 3rd birthday party.... so that was fun.. it was superhero theme - so jade went as "super Jade" with a "T" for Thomas on her chest.... (they dont' make costumes below a size 4 ... and nothing really out there for girls.... except for fairy outfits.... so we had to create something.. and figured this way - if we had a boy next - he'd be able to wear it if he ever needed too.. (gotta be practical)....

Rob's mom flew home on Saturday arvo at 4:30 - but we said good bye when we left at 9am....

Yesterday we went shopping at Bunnings to get Weldmesh so cover the gate area in our fence so that Jade can play around in there until we get the gate organised (one thing at a time)....
So, all in all, things are going ahead here... and the world is a happy place.... no idea when we're going to start baby making again... but we'll work that out when we get there.... :)

Trials....

We had a trials comp today - my first time back on my 315 since the Christmas Breakup Comp in November....

So a little out of form... I still managed to ride "ok"...

But the Thomas comp was on... after the first lap - Rob was beating me by 1 point... and as I was riding back to the car to get a drink I noticed my bike was making a funny noise...

Not being mechanically minded what-so-ever... I just told Rob about it - and he turned up my idle so that the bike would hopefully stop stalling....

Unfortunately this theory didn't hold...

I had managed to get my lead back on Rob by Section 4... I was back in the lead by 2 points.... So I ride off the dropoff... and as I'm riding down into the creek - the bike dies... and unfortunately I'm unable to balance the bike and kick it over.... which means an automatic 5 point penalty....

It just went down from there.... in my next lap - the bike stalled twice... once in Section 4 and once in section 6....

a 15 point penalty means it's virtually impossible for me to stay ahead of Rob... so Ifigure.. what the hell... I'm going to keep the revs up as much as possible while enterting the sections that caught me.... so I just enter these creeks at a reasonable pace and just tried to hold onto the bike without putting my feet down to get out of each section....

By the end of the day... I had dropped 23 points.... Rob dropped 19... and some new guy (well someone who's started since November last year dropped 16.... but third place is still better than a kick up the bum.....

Earlier in the Day....

On our drive up to Rockhampton, we'd given Jade scrambled eggs for breakfast, she lost her entire breakfast... so we had to stop on the side of the road for 30mins and clean out the car - and clean her up....

Luckily she's not a sick kind of child - so she got a bit upset with being sick.... ate a breadroll and was quite happy to keep watching Dora....

We dropped Jade with my cousin, so that she could bath her - as we only had half an hour before the comp began... so Jaime bathed her and put her into some of Xander's clothing.... luckily she looks like enough of a girl now that it doens't matter if she wears boy clothes....

Jaime's quite handy when it comes to Jade.... :) she took her home when it got close to 1pm -so that Jade could have a sleep at her place and we picked her up on our way home... :)

Better get back to socialising with Rob and his Mom....

oh yeah - she arrived last night.....

Vito.....

Ok, so Rob's been talking about getting a caravan to do all of the travelling that he wants to do around Australia installing various CardXpress machines.... I had to find a cheaper and smarter alternative...

So, we considered the Mercedes Vito that my parents own... and then started looking at various other vans... Unfortunately, no one makes a decent looking van except for Mercedes...

When Rob was in Rocky on Wednesday installing another machine, the local Merc dealership had a 2006 Vito still on their lot... so they were desperate to sell it... Firstly offering it to us for $47,000.... which was quickly dropped to $42,000 when we said that Redbook didn't even have them listed with an RRP that high.

We said we'd consider it and get back to them... we didn't get back to them soon enough... and on Friday morning - they phoned and offered it to us for $40,000... Rob said that it was still not really good enough for a base model van...

So, we got it from them for $40,500 - including installation of: Cruise Control ($550), windows in the sliding doors ($1,000) and a bull bar ($1300) (hopper knocker... which is important given that Rob's probably hit at least 15 in the Prado... and the hopper knocker has saved the car every time....) So we really managed to get them down to $38,000 for the BASE....

So, Rob's quite pleased with himself.... and I'll finally get my Prado back :) (I managed to have it for about the first month of it's life before it got stolen permanently...)

3 down - 1 to go...

Well, I've made it through 3 full days at work - I'm still alive - and more importantly - I'm still awake at the end of the work day... one more day to go and I've made it through my first week back at more full-time hours....

Jade's settling into being at daycare every day too.... She had photos on Tuesday, so that'll be interesting to see how that turned out when the photos come back... she gets a "class" photo - but it's basically a page of all the single baby pics with their names - as far as I'm aware....

Rob's headed off to Meandarra - again - he left at 6pm - so he'll probably get there around midnight... but he's taken the caravan - so he's ok to just go to sleep if he doesn't make it there tonight....

Nothing interesting on TV, I think it might be time for an early night.... Nothing too interesting happened this week... so nothing really to report.....

Mean little girl!

So, Jade finishes her bath and I've got her in the room getting her changed and she's playing with her Pooh Bear....

So being the GREAT mother that I am *cough*cough* - I start singing "Winnie the Pooh" and very quickly she goes "stop singing mommy....." so I flipped out my bottom lip and started to sob and said "you wont let me sing?" - so instead of letting me sing - she goes "oh - do you want a cuddle mommy?"...

How nasty is that? I'm allowed to sing - only when she wants!

Swimming....

Well, that was more painful than last week. At least last week she settled down after a couple of minutes and was happy enough in the class until she saw me outside the room.

I figured I'd be ok this week, I'll just stay away - she wont see me - and she'll settle down.... Good theory... unfortunately I didn't plan on there being another student in the class this week... Last week there was only Jade and Georgia... this week Marcus was there... he's 2.5...

Anyway, cut a long story short... Jade started crying - she set off Marcus... so they fed off each other for the entire lesson... even as jade was climbing out of the pool she was still screaming...

They tell me that they all go through it for at least 3 weeks.. then they settle down... so one more week and she should be ok... (that would be if she were normal....)

I was going to go to Rocky today to get new work pants, however, Jade having screamed for 30mins - I didn't like my chances of her settling down for the hour and a bit drive to rocky - shopping for pants - and then the drive home... on top of the fact that she's had this cold for a couple of weeks... So I've decided to put it off til next week, Rob's mom will be here - so Rob and his Mom can have jade for the day and I'll go shopping on my own!

She's Right!

I am actually traveling around doing CardXpress stuff. Tonight I'm posting from the Mobil site at Cloncurry, and I'm regretting not buying a heater on friday - It gets pretty cold out this far west. Last night I was at Richmond, and I did Cloncurry and Mt Isa today. I'm now heading back to Longreach in the morning, and I'm hoping to have that done and get to Emerald tomorrow.

Anyway, I've finally got a handle on the JasJam phone. I've got it synching to Google Calendar, over the air, so Tharyn can keep track of my time, and I've got it giving me internet access when I'm away. I do only have 70mb (yes, megabytes) of data per month before I start getting charged $ludicrous, so I'm not going to be doing too much.

Wednesday is currently looking good, I think!

--Rob

Welcome....

Ok, so I've finally got around to doing up a real blog - and lets see how this goes...

All systems go so far, got a title... got pics down the side... it's all good...

Rob's currently away, installing CardXpress machines all over Queensland... and hoping to get back here by hopefully Wednesday so that we can get everything organised before his mother arrives from Sydney for a week....

Things have been interesting in our lives lately, but at least everything seems to be settling down again... I've got my Doctors visit in less than two weeks to make sure that my body isn't totally screwed up - and then we're right to start thinking about getting pregnant again...

Jade discovered today that if she drags a chair to the kitchen sink - then she can play with the bubbles.... not the best discovery as far as I'm concerned as it can get quite messy once she starts playing with soapy water and floating timber floor tiles.... NOT a good combination... not to mention the slippery aspects of it! Then there's always the fact that if there are any plates in the sink and she decides to take them out - well - you know all about trying to be baby safe... but there's only so many things you can prevent.... and I'm not about to nail my chairs down in the dining room....

We went to the park today with Kate, Mitchell & Lachlan.... so that was fun... Ran into a few people that I knew... then came home - did washing and got jade to sleep.... Unfortunately the phone rang a few times and jade only ended up sleeping an hour and a half.... which sounds like a lot - until you consider I wanted to get all of my washing ironed and put away... it's just never enough....

Jade's got her second swimming lesson in the morning in the pool without me, lets just hope this one goes better than the last.... I think she thinks I'm going to abandon her and make her live her life in a swimming pool with Sharon (the instructor)....

Well, I don't want to scare people, so I'll call it a night on this post.