Hi people

HI everyone

Whats this about Lebanon at Christmas?- you haven't said anything previously about it.

Congrats on your wedding anniversary

HEy how are the Casnnon Scotts doing? finding homes? or is that next weekend?

Samuel has been quite sick this week- which has been difficult for both of us. poor little guy has a pretty bad ear infection which we are trying to treat with antibiotics but he doesn't like to take it. Tuesday was really rough. we went to the drs monday got the diagnosis and all the meds but then he ran a huge fever monday night and was down right miserable and not sleeping (therefore neither did I). Tuesday he refused taking the medicine no matter what i tried ( he just closed his throat with his tongue if i tried the syring and if i mixed it with something spat it out!!) and my fuse was very short. I phoned the pharmasist - thinking how can they make medicine that kids don't like- asking if they had a different flavoured antibiotic but no! I eventually found that i could get him to take it out of a bottle mixed with a little yoghurt drink (same consistency and sweet) but it still takes at least an hour and its only 5mls of medicine and 15 mls of drink. Last night/today he is not drinking it all so what do you do?! I just keep trying. He also has a terrible cold, nose & chest, with a cough thats out of this world! apart from that he seems pretty happy most of the time. I know i wouldn't be.

I went out with some girl friends last night- first time since my hens and only the third time since sam was born! it was lovely- we met at a really nice restaurant and talked non stop for 4 1/2 hours! we did eat but we had to keep sending the poor waitress away because we hadn't read the menu. It was really quite wonderful. So i didn't get to bed till 12.30- very late for me.

Still no work at the office for me. Still don't like doing house work- there has to be some switch i can flick that will make me want/enjoy it.

Samuel is getting better at child care though he didn't go this week.

I have started this really nice yoga program at home called Budoken Yoga. I feel so much better when i do it.

Michael is busy busy busy with meetings with government. looks like he will be doing much more work at home nights and weekend from now till the end of the year. He had to speak to some lady from the Australian Friday for a story she was doing came out monday. SHe was trying to sensationalise the effect of the expansion on two endanged species -Michael thinks they are unlikly to be affected but they are still going to do all the studies. He said the resulting story wasn't too bad but said it is amazing how things you say can be taken out of context. Apparently the jouralists like to obtain info from FOI (freedom of Information) requests so they can say that they obtained it that way and make it look like information was being suppressed. When she said to Micahel "I have info here from an FOI" he said "well it is freely available on the web from these various sources or you can get it sent out from this place" etc. she was like oh, well, blah blah blah- they think it makes for intrigue and cover up etc in their story. And as a reader of course that is the assumption you make, well i always have- now i realise how much stuff can be changed etc , its like statistics, makes it difficult to trust what you read and hear. pretty incredible that we live in the information age and we can still be left in the dark, maybe it should be the 'miss-information age'. Anyway apart from that and a few people management things stuff is going pretty well for the project.

well thats all from here. We'll see Brisbane folk when we come up and send our love to everyone in brissy and Canada.- good luck with the home search.

lots of love
kim, michael and samuel

Hi from SA

Hi! Great idea Kathy.

This will just be a quicky- Samuel is waking.

All is great here- blue skies, Samuel is walking around- almost running it seems. He doesn't crawl at all anymore. It has all happened so quickly. The picture was taken on May 13 when Samuel was just starting to learn to walk, it is a pitty that i haven't downloaded the rest of the pictures from the camera so you can see his progress- next time. but if it takes this long to upload an image i am not sure i'll bother, oh the curse of dial up. Bummer, it won't let me do it so no photos from me oh well.

He goes to day care one day a week- well last week was his first full day and they said he actually did quite well, in comparison to the three half days previously.

welli guess thats it from here- hope you are all well and happy
love
kim

Canada Day

Hooray it's Canada Day. We went for a walk today to enjoy the summer sun that we have been having so much of lately. A breeze was blowing and the temperature was in the low to mid 20s.

Thea walked the whole way! Normally she rides on Andrew's shoulders. Aaron rode in the luxury liner.

I was so proud of her. She asked a question today and answered it herself. Why are there sparkles on the lake? SHe thought about it and then said because the sun is shining down.

On another day Thea painted her face as Puff the Magic Dragon and listened to the song all day on repeat. Doesn't she look like a bruiser!

Little Aaron is exploring his world. Everything is going in the mouth.