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A couple of things from browsing the web today.

• Buy the original fembot from the Austin Powers movie on ebay!  Link

• This must be one of the strangest online clocks I’ve seen for a while!

Great weekend last weekend!

Saturday morning found Max and I at the airport awaiting the arrival of my brother and his wife from the UK. They haven’t been home for two and a half years – Max had just had his first birthday and Elliot wasn’t even conceived. Naturally of course this wasn’t going to be as simple as it should be and just after we had pulled into the car park Jason called from Auckland to say that their flight to Auckland was over two hours late and they didn’t make the connecting flight to Wellington. Unfortunately the next flight they could get on was three hours later! Luckily Max loves the airport and his Granddad had just turned up as well so we thought we’d look at the planes and have a drink.

The thing about this visit is that one of the reasons for them coming home was to celebrate my Mum’s 60th birthday on Sunday. Mum had no idea that they were coming back and Jason had even created a fake itinerary to put her off the trail. After Jason and Max had become acquainted again (and that went extremely well) it was off to my Mum’s place to surprise her The look on my Mum’s face when Jason and Selena walked in was absolutely priceless – just as well I got in on video

For my Mum’s birthday on the Sunday we went out for brunch so she could spend time with the boys and then had dinner in the evening for the adults. The evening ended with Mum and friends slamming “Quick f*cks” and champagne

Happy Birthday Mum!

Here’s an email I got at work the other day

Hi Marc

CONGRATULATIONS!  You are the winner of the company DELL U2 Sales Promotion.  We would be delighted if you would join us at the U2 concert at Telstra Stadium Sydney on Saturday 11 November 2006.

We are delighted to arrange your accommodation and return airfares from New Zealand upon acceptance of this invitation.  We will ensure that you travel to and from the concert in style and are accommodated at a well appointed hotel in Sydney’s CBD.

I sincerely hope that you can join the company / DELL team in celebrating the success of the sales promotion at the concert.  Please contact me via return email so we can arrange your itinerary.  Once your itinerary is confirmed I will send out an agenda for the afternoon/evening. 

Trusting you can make it!  I look forward to seeing you there.

Again…congratulations!

Regards.

Danielle

DANIELLE WATSON

Partner Marketing Manager ANZ

company Australia Pty Ltd

Sweeeet

It seems that the bug that Max and Elliot have/had really is going around as Vic just told me that 15 of the 40 kids at Max’s kindy were off sick yesterday!

As for our boys Max was full of energy this morning and besides having an upset tummy seems to be back to normal.  Elliot seems OK and is keeping his food down but is still a bit grizzly. 

Who knew that kids could fit so much puke and shit in them!

The last three days have seen both our boys the sickest I’ve ever seen them 🙁 They are slowly on the improve but it’s taking a while.

Monday night Vic and I went up to bed about 10:30 and as we usually do we checked in on the boys.  We walked into Elliot’s room to find that he’d vomited a small amount over the side of his cot and onto the floor.  I picked him up out of his cot and took him into the bathroom while Vic started to clean up.  Almost as soon as I got him into the bathroom he proceeded to bring up almost every scrap of food he’d eaten in the last day or so all over my neck, sweatshirt, jeans and feet in about four massive heaves!  The bizarre thing is that I was standing there being puked on (he takes after his Mum – long story ) and all I was thinking was “I really hope he’s going to be alright”.  The next two hours were spent bathing him to get the vomit out his hair, redressing him, redressing him again after he exploded from his nappy through his pyjamas, sleeping bag and my jeans.  He puked a few more times and we finally got him settled back into his cot about 12:30 and staggered into bed.

For two hours.  Then we went through a similar process with Max vomiting from 02:30 to about 03:30.

Elliot exploded again about 5:00 so then we decided to just get up!  Max then started with the explosive diarrhoea….. yay!

Tuesday was spent with Max sleeping most of the time (except when he was sprinting to the toilet – and making it 3 out of four times) and Elliot throwing up anything that entered his mouth almost instantly.  The strange thing is that they haven’t had a temperature and besides feeling tired haven’t seemed particularly “ill”

Since then they’ve both eaten small amounts of food, drunk quite a bit of water and slept a lot – except at night of course where the average number of times getting up is about three.

It seems that there is a rotavirus going around at the moment that really wipes them out for a while but hopefully they’re on the improve……

Ahh the joys of parenthood

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So this time it’s Auckland for two days…… see y’all soon!

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