Thanks!

Thank you very much Aunty Debbie, Uncle Stu, Natalie, Calvin and Isabelle for my yummy Easter egg you gave me... Mum and I enjoyed it very much thank you, I'm still dancing from it!
Lots of love from Pumpkin and I look forward to meeting you all very soon! (It'll be nice to be out, it's getting a bit squishy in here...)

Thanks, Grandad

Dear Grandad,

I like the letter you sent me, and I’ve got some new songs that I’ve been singing to mummy and daddy. I’ve been so busy. I’ve been thinking that I like garlic bread.

I made an instrument at Kindy today. It is a shaker. That’s all there is to say.

Goodbye, have a lovely day.

Natalie Kitto

When we showed Jacob this photo we said 'Isn't he gorgeous!'... He looked at it and said 'Yes!'
He loves looking out the window and chatting to Daddy when he's out working on the shed - there's lots of 'Hi Dad! Hi Dad!' which brings a smile to many faces :)

Mmm Coffee...

Jacob very kindly helped Nanna with her coffee this morning, spooning the milk into her mouth and even wiping her chin! What a helpful little man :)

Happy Birthday to me!

Happy Birthday Daddy

That's what we sang this morning (and tonight!) as we celebrated Al's Birthday. I think he had a good day as he commented. We couldn't find his pressie at Harbour Town (overalls - found some but they were all the wrong size and for some reason he didn't want white ones!) but enjoyed browsing for a while (well... Mum and I did!). Of course Gloria Jean's Coffee is always a nice treat, then we came home and at 6pm had yummy Black Forest Cake I'd made this morning, and enjoyed our yummy roast dinner at 6:45! A bit backwards but yummy anyway and Jacob seemed to enjoy his 2 min noodles. Al also got some more stuff done in the shed which is always good ;) Tomorrow night we're going Gold Class to see The Da Vinci Code which will be lovely! Using the gift vouchers I got for mother's day to celebrate Al's birthday is just extending the joy. Seeing we're both not on the roster tomorrow night (very rare but very good) we'll be able to duck out early and easily. Al will be at church all morning, then staying for BBQ lunch with the UC President at Ashley's, so it's been lovely to have a nice day together today. And tonight...? Just a quiet one sorting out stuff for tomorrow and reading and watching Superman 3!
(Sorry but blogger's being a bit stupid and not loading photos for me at the moment so I'll try again tomorrow)

Happy Birthday to ... AL!

We're jumping for joy here, in rememberance of your birhtday!
Hoping you all the best for your birthday today Al, and may you find the perfect balance of rest and fun on this YOUR day.
Love and thoughts from your Whyalla family.
Stuart, Debbie, Natalie and Calvin.

We're getting the band back together

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well I don't know ...

This is frustrating .... I just tried to make a comment on Heth's last entry, and it wouldn't let me in! It said my password wasn't valid ... or something ..... maybe it's just too early! And now of course I have no idea what my comment was gonna be!! Oh well ..... I wish my sore back wasn't! Sounds like the Socceroos are gonna make it to the next stage .... wow .... bet you never thought you'd see your mother commenting on soccer!!

Oh Dear...

We had a very sad little man here this morning... When Jacob woke up, after calling out to Mummy for a while he wanted Nanna. 'Nanna! Nan! Nanna! NANNA!!!' He was very upset that Nanna wasn't here and didn't want to come in to us at all. I suggested he talk to Nanna on the phone and that calmed him down for a minute ('nan phone') but changed his mind before we dialled. Strange!
I'm not sure where that all came from... Before he went to bed I'd been telling him a few things that are gonna happen soon - Nanna will come and stay for a while, and mummy has to stay in hospital for a while to get Pumpkin out of my tummy, and you'll all come and visit etc. So perhaps he got confused and thought Nanna was coming now. He'll be pleased to see her tomorrow!

Speaking of Jacob in the mornings... Yesterday just after I'd turned the light off to go out the front door to go to work I hear this 'Hi mum'... He scared the pants off me! I didn't want to trip over him or anything but eventually convinced him it was still night time but mummy had to go to work so you go NighNight with Daddy - so we carefully walked up the passage in the dark and he got into my bed but he got very upset cos he wanted mummy to go nighnight! He wasn't the only one ;)
I did get excited though when i was getting up, cos the next time I need to be at Flinders by 7am (or anywhere for that matter!) it'll be to have my baby!

Cavin Update

Goodmorning. I was organised today and took the camera to Calvin's speech session. For an actual update on that please refer to our blog.

Our Blog

Now that I'm officially on maternity leave, we've got a blog on msn... i've no idea how it works or how to do it or anything but imagine a bit of trial and error's in order!
http://thebrocklehursts.spaces.msn.com/
(sorry you'll have to cut and paste it cos i don't know how... but i'm sure Stu can put a link on the side thingy?)

YIPPEE It's Official!!!

Hooray, as of now I'm OFFICIALLY on maternity leave! :D

I survived my last shift very nicely - was specialling a patient so spent most of the day sitting reading mags - and even though none of the staff seemed to care I was leaving I was happy anyway.

And then I came home and found a wall up in the shed! Looks like Al and Ash have been busy (I think there's some discussion about leaving a section of the internal wall open and putting a door in but I'm not exactly sure.)

So it's been a good day all round!

Thankyou

Thankyou mum and dad K for the beautiful flowers. I can hardly believe that it has been two months already. It has really been just a blink of the eye.
The timing of delivery was perfect. It was this time twelve months ago that I received a phone call from my dad to say that Uncle Trevor had passed away. So I was watching his funeral video when I had the beautiful flowers delivered to my door. Thankyou very much.
(It is hard to see in this picture, but the flowers are actually HUGE. Really lovely)

More Shed Stuff

Well things are certainly progressing - slowly but surely :) All of the gyprock around the external walls and ceiling is in place (thanks to extra help from Dad & Dave, and Ashley's coming round to help tomorrow too) and at the moment Al's out there starting on the frame work for the internal wall. So once that's done it's just the patching and painting and carpet and skirting board and cornice and electrical stuff (which Crammy is gonna come and do on Sat 1st of July) - all the 'cosmetics'. And then fitting it out with cupboards or shelves or whatever. And then moving everything else out there that needs to go. And then sorting out the baby's room... etc etc etc!

We also got a quote to get built in robes in our room (something i've dreamed about for years!) and today the sales manager rang back to see what else he could do to help us - he wasn't keen to halve the price like i suggested but did manage to drop it down nicely for us... So we'll see what happens there! And if we do order it this week they'd try to install it in the next 4 weeks or so for us ;) Of course I'll have nothing else to do then so what better way to fill in time than sorting out built in robes! *sigh*

AND Hooray I've only got one shift to go! That'll be nice :) And with Jacob still going to child care 1 day a week I might actually be able to get something done occasionally... but i won't push it of course.

He was quite a sweet little fella most of the day today (apart from a couple of hours when he went a bit feral and didn't know what he wanted... but we survived by him sitting on my legs watching bob and various other things on the computer... until he wanted the keyboard and mouse...). But he did eat well and nicely - just the ham from his toasted sandwhich for lunch followed by 2 kiwi fruit and a mandy, then after Al got home he asked for an apple and I had to stop myself from saying 'no wait a little bit and have some cake with us'. He did sit up at the table with his apple and entertain us while we had our coffee which is always cute. And then he was happy to sit at the table and have dinner with us too, and he ate his whole bowl of pasta and his yoghurt adn didn't complain or get upset at all! That hasn't happened for a while so it was a very pleasant change.

He wanted me to make a tower with him after lunch and while i was complaining about getting on the floor he got one of his little chairs to sit on which was very kind of him! Then he lined up the rest of his chairs (as he does) and was sitting opposite me and held my hands and was saying 'p ...' something i wasn't sure what but THEN i realised he wanted to say prayers! So we did and every so often he'd come back and grab my hands and say 'more prayer' which was just lovely, and after that he was happy to walk up to his room and go nigh night and did without a peep (also hasn't happened for a while, during the day at least) and stayed there for 55 minutes. Better than not at all!

Anyhoo... I shall go back out to the fire and see if i've got the energy to fold the clothes adn i need to put the clean sheets on the bed too... Al bought a $4 cake from Coles again (and the bread's nearly finished) so I look forward to something sweet when he comes in :)

Hope you're all well... I'll put up more shed photos sometime but in the mean time here's some Jacob.
xox

mmm mmmm

Lovely hot shower .... delicious!!

water .... and tickets!

Hi All ..... it's chilly here this morning, not helped by having NO HOT WATER !! Brrrr! Dad discovered that a switch in our meter box had switched itself off, so he turned it back on ... and now, a couple of hours later, the water appears to be heating .... but why did it turn itself off??!! I have to go out every hour or so today and check that this switch is still on and that doovey is still turning around and the pipe is still getting warm .... and ring him if the answer to any of those questions is no!
Anyway .... I've just spent an hour on Firefox and the phone, and we have tickets for Heth Sue and me to go to The Boy from Oz ..... yippee!! There were better tickets available (for the same money) at the afternoon session so I checked with Al that he'd be happy to mind the littlies in the afternoon instead of the evening! He said that's OK .... so we have tickets!! Or we will in a week or so when they arrive!
Dad thoroughly enjoyed the Walk on the weekend - of course! (and it appears John coped with the women Ok! ... and Rita was well and truly a blessing in the prayer chapel!) Altho it sounds as tho it was a bit different from most previous ones .... but the pilgrims all looked and sounded pretty happy at Closing yesterday, so that's good! Jenny C was Support Director, adn Rob provided some unexpected drama by falling through/from/out of a manhole cover at work on Friday! He badly dislocated his right shoulder, carted off to hospital, etc etc .... but by some miracle (!?) when the expert came to check him out before operating to fix it, surgery wasn't required after all ... wow! He's still pretty sore and annoyed and frustrated, but looking forward to a week of catching up on his reading! We had tea with him n Jenny n Ellie n Josiah, and Moyra and Jim, n Phil and Kathy before we came home last night .... Dad Jim n Rob shared a nice bottle of red, so i drove! Bye!

Cold, but pretty.

I hope that you are keeping warm on this FREEZING day. -2.4 degs here in Whyalla this morning at 7:30am (though the Elders wesite said that it felt like -6!). Just thought that I'd share our pretty weeds with you, Well, if you're going to have weeds for the base of your garden, they may as well look pretty in freezing temperatures! It may also be a few hour before the kids are able to jump on the tramoline, as you can see, this ice will need to melt off! Stay warm. :)

The Boys

Here's Jacob and Jaydon enjoying the action yesterday... ;)

The Shed Weekend #5

I'm sure you're all dying for an update... Unfortunately it didn't get finished on the weekend (but hopefully it will sometime in the next 5 weeks!). Most of the insulation and gyprock is up but there's still a few sections to go... the door's in (I don't think its got a lock or a handle yet) and the window's in... and i've no idea what else!
I was at work yesterday so missed most of the activity - luckily Laine came round to help with Jacob so Al could do some stuff too. I haven't actually been out there since they packed up yesterday!
There is stuff Al can do by himself and I think the theory is that he'll do what he can while Jacob's in care tomorrow, then Mum and Dad will come down tomorrow night so Dad can help Al in the morning before he goes up the hill to Emmaus. Crammy's busy for the next couple of weeks so I have a feeling the hunt is on for another laborour or 2 - all offers gratefully recieved!
I think once the insulation and gyprock is finished on the walls and roof and internal wall, there's the cosmetic stuff to do - like painting, skirting boards, carpet, power points etc, not to mention fitting it out with shelves/cupboards/desks etc and moving everything else out there
so we can sort out the baby's room! I'm sure it'll happen sometime...