Merry New Year!!

Good morning everyone, thought I'd give you something to focus on as you wake up to a brand new year.

Luscious Baylie. x
Richard's surprise 40th party at the yacht club.

Our xmas eve dinner.

Kylin's new water pistol - it's a bit addictive :)

Kylin's first tooth fell out on the 23rd, so he got the tooth fairy one night and santa the next. Far too exciting!

Finally, a photo we ALL like!

Christmas eve - New trampoline - thanks nanny and grandpa. x

Soldiers n guns n tanks - thanks Uncle Pete n Auntie Debbie. x

Christmas day - rockin out to Mammal with his new guitar. Daddy wishes he had one too!

Wayne joined us for a gorgeous lunch with nibbles, prawns and a vietnamese coleslaw salad, followed by a passionfruit, white chocolate ganache jelly cake - it looked like a train smash - tasted awesome!

Boxing day morning - Wayne and Kylin crashed out after breakfast - not a very lively bunch! :)

Boxing day lunch - everyone brought their leftovers and we chilled in the pool.

Singing in the car on the way to Port.

Lunch at "On the inlet" in Port Douglas. Scrummy!

Patio and house all candlelit on NYE. .

We let Kylin stay up as late as he wanted to. He had nibbles by candlelight, a swim in the dark, sparklers, poppers and was crashed out by 9pm.

We hope you all got through last night ok. The madness is over now for another year. :)

We now only have 10 more sleeps until our home is filled with the energy of our beautiful friends, for a week that will fly by, but I can't wait for. We have a countdown on our fridge and smiles that keep spilling out. :)

In other news - Congratulations to Mark and Col on recently becoming grandparents. xx

Happy birthday today to Mick Rigby who also got married just after christmas. Congratulations Cassie and Mick. Kisses to you both. xx

Happy Birthday to our 16 other January babies:

Gunny, Ishie, Linc, Vicky, Cameron, Nikki, Kim, Froggy, Peter C, Trrroggy, Bernard, Chris V, Dee, Teddy Bear, Veg, and Luke A.

We hope you all have a wonderful birthday. xxx

Welcome to 2010 everyone, our love and best wishes for a wonderful year for you all.

xoxoxo

Since the last post.....

we had a visit from a snakewent to the school disco (Jazzmin, Kylin & Kris)

Played backyard fishermen in Al's tinny

caught a humongous bug

went to Mareeba zoo

danced in a fountain

cuddled a python

had our preps break up party

did our school concert

Kylin, Rhys, Brooke, Caitlin and Jazzmin on the last day of school

Had a christmas party at the Navy base

and dropped the camera, so all our photo's look like this :(

short n sweet but lots to show you.

Love and hugs. xoxoxo

Too much fun

Hello everyone, we hope you've had a great few weeks. It seems we haven't stopped, there's always lots to be done and people to catch up with.

Dermott (aka Grunk) was in Cairns for a few days last week. Kylin made him lots of yummy food from his new kitchen. It was so nice to see him and spend time with him again.

We also got to catch up with the lovely Linc. He made time for us during his visit recently. We had dinner with him at Mondo's, where Kylin made a great impression and we had a fab time (but it went too quick). Awesome to see him again. Kylin's new kitchen. He whips us up breakfast most days and copies what I'm doing, he's too cute. There were chickens in his eggs!

Kylin's very first time on a bus. I went and helped out at the preps swimming lessons. The kids were soooo excited it was great fun.

Breakky at the lagoon with Bindi n Dan. Fantastic morning.

Brodie and Kylin got to swim and play with the drain ?!?!?!? Heaps of cuddles and giggles.

Sharing some chocolate ice cream - special treat!!

Polar and Madi inside, Kylin thought it was hilarious having them on the couch.

Who is this beaked person?

Rhys during the cola experiment. We put a packet of mentos into a cola bottle and watched it explode.

Rhys dressed as a transformer, Kylin as an old lady. Kylin chased him around the house whacking him with his hand bag, yelling "take that" Hahahahaha.

Halloween, Damian had a party to go to, so Kylin and I stayed at the Colonial club while he was gone. Kylin turned every light on and off a million times, was in and out of the cupboard, had about 5 baths, played with the telly, had the whole fridge full of snacks, jumped on the beds and had a wonderful time.

In the playground at the resort, he woo hooed and yelled higher higher, Daddy did a fab job making him fly.

One of the many baths

Finally, about 8.30 he crashed.

We have been busy collecting stuff for our garage sale and have heaps of boxes full already.

This week Wayne is arriving back in Cairns and will be staying with us for a while until he gets settled. It's going to be great having him here again, we've missed him. :)

It's only 52 more sleeps till christmas so we are starting to get all excited about that already. We have another batch of wine on the go and our herbs and veggies are doing very well now with the rain. All is well here and we hope it's the same in your world too.

Happy Birthday to our November and December babies.

November -Ben, Caroline, Filiz, Cindy, Jess, Riley, and Lis.

December - Vanessa, Tina, Danny, Silvia, Jaelyn, Mandy, Peter, Karyn, Trixie, Dermott, Nic, Brodie, Richard, Pat, Andrew H, Renae, Ramona, Isabelle and Grant.

(19 birthdays in December?? That's mad!)

We hope you all have a fantastic day. xx

Love and hugs to you all until next post. xo

WHOOOSH

That was the month wizzing past! Hope you have all had a good couple of months.

Since we last wrote, Kylin got really brave and let a hairdresser cut his hair. He was a little worried but she was great with him and tickled him a lot with the big brush afterwards.Kylin dressed as a pirate for Kristophers birthday :)

Shane n a chocolate covered Jaelyn. :)

School sports day, Kylin had tonsillitis, but we went so he could run his race and then went home again. He loved it!

Kylin, Rhys and Kristopher

Kylin, Rhys, Kristopher and Manny playing trains.

Upside down dressing - the new season's look.

In hospital, waiting to go to theatre

Crashed out in the tv room after his op.
The surgeon had injected local anaesthetic into his throat just before they woke him, so he had eaten 1/2 a tub of ice cream and drunk heaps of juice by this time.

Cameron stayed in overnight too and came over to Kylin's bed to play cause he didn't have a drip to cart around. They had a great time watching DVDs and playing with the magic beds making them bend and go up really high.

Morphine! The local had worn off and minutes before this he had been in awfull pain.
I don't look very stressed do I? Poor darling. We spent most of the night like this.

We spent most of the next day there and thought he'd have to be in another night, but we got the all clear and got home about 6pm. He has recovered well and had his post op check. So it's back to school tomorrow.

A mysterious and very cheeky power ranger/iron man came by to check on Kylin from time to time. :) I have to say a big thank you to Rhys for understanding that Kylin couldn't do all the things they normally do, and being happy to play gentle games so nicely with him while he recovered.

"my elephant is very impressed with you infant" x

Kylin couldn't go in the pool for 3 weeks so I froze a heap of ice blocks with food color so he and Rhys could play Antarctic ice bergs in the shell pool with all the penguins and whales etc.

First outing since the op. We met Marisol and Jazz at the movies and saw G-Force.

This was his first time at the pictures and he really loved it. Might stick to "G" rated movies next time tho, it was a bit scary for him in parts, particularly that big and loud. :)
We met Jenny, Tracie and Saxyn afterwards and had lunch. Jenny came over to our house for a play on Saturday. She is Kylin's very first "carer" and he just loves her to bits. She has always been brilliant with him.

Damian is back home now and settling into life at the SPO. His mother came to stay with us in the week before Kylin went to hospital. Kylin loved having his grandma here. We are settling back into our old routine and kicking into entertaining mode just in time for summer. :)

Kylin has stopped snoring and his apnoea has dissapeared also. It will take a few more weeks for his sleeping patterns to settle but the earliest he is waking is 5am with little to no waking during the night - which is a HUGE improvement. We are both starting to feel the benefits of our uninterupted nights. In just a short time I have so much more energy and the headaches aren't nearly so bad. Kylin can also smell things properly now and some 'normal' smells like coffee, are quite strong to him. He is also having to adjust how he breathes in the pool. Previously he didn't really have to worry about water getting up his nose - we didn't know it - but it couldn't. Now he is having some problems but he'll sort it out soon enough. :) Hideous experience, but worth every second for the improvements we are seeing already.

The luscious Linc is visiting Cairns this week so we are meeting him at Mondos on Wednesday - can't wait can't wait can't wait to squish him :)
Our next visitor is Dermott who will be here sometime this month - we love having him here.

Then.......the biggie!

Andy, Nic and Joe visiting from the UK in December. They'll be in Melbourne until new year then they are coming to stay with us.....Wayne n Kimmy are coming with them so we will have a party house to start the new year.

I'M SOOOOOOOO EXCITED I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!
Happy belated Birthday to our September babies:

Dan, Damian C, Kiah, Micheal, Wayne H, Denis, Dianne, Greg, Al, John W, Peter C, Nic, Tony, and Amanda.
And Happy Birthday to our October babies:

Deb, Bella, Rhys, Yvonne, Alex, April, Lee, Mat, Damien B, David R, Luke, John C, Peter C, and Oliver

We hope you all had/have a wonderful day. xxx

Also Happy 6th anniversary to Sooz and Nic for the 27th Sept.

We hope everyone is happy and well, September was a sleepless blur so we are catching up to "normal' again. Love and hugs to you all. xxx