Just been told that our evaporative aircon will be installed on Monday.
Now that is cool news.
This will be so much better with the little one and his heat rashes. He had not enjoyed the hot days we have been having so I am so happy as they said we would not get it until after Christmas.
3 more things on my list now, find a home for our cat get the carpets cleaned and buy a lounge sweet.
Roll on Christmas.

Here are some scary pictures





I hope they didn't scare you too much .

Here is a few photos of my chores chart in action. The boys where happily playing when I said "It's time to mark the chore chart for today" Then they swung into action so I had to take a few pics.

He just gave a great news conference on live TV.
He is a wonderful person and so smart to know when to make a big decision. Australian swimming will miss him but whatever he does now will  be good and make his parents even prouder.
Onya Thorpy.

After finding our youngest son is allergic to pet hair, mites, grass and dust it looks like I will have to change my cleaning routine. My previous post talks about our problem with our pet and how we have to get rid of him and now we are finding a real pattern to his allergies and when we do things around the house.
One that stands out straight away is when I clean the house. I always do bits and pieces throughout the week (as per flylady) but I do a big clean on a Thursday. Every time I vacuum Nicholas has an outbreak the next day and Fridays are always bad. I will now have to vacuum when he is not around (or at night) as most conventional vacuum cleaners throw a fine dust through the air and the Doc says that is a big cause of his problem. He loves playing on the carpet.
So we are getting rid of the cat and the vacuum (any recommendations for a good vac for people with allergies?) and changing my cleaning routine to when he is at Kinda. We also have to get rid of all of our cushions if we cannot get them cleaned properly.
If all this works we can buy a new lounge sweet (the is ruined by creams and ointments) so ther ia bright light after all.
I am glad we have a possible solution and now I hope it all works.

We have just been told that it is our cat that is causing most of the allergy and eczema problems with our son . We told him tonight and he is devastated. He keeps saying, "but I love Pussy so much, please let him stay?" I am a bit upset as well. We got Puddy from the RSPCA  just under 3 years ago when my last cat Kimmi was put down (she was 18 and had cancer). I have had a cat since before I was married and will struggle to come to terms without having one around.
We cannot have any furry animals as he will react to them so we are wondering what we can do for a pet.
At the moment our big worry is to find a home for Puddy. He is microchipped, registered and we just finished 14 days locked inside after a trip to the vets to remove an infection from a fight. My wife never really warmed to the cat and she was locking that it may die on the operating table at the vets and just yesterday she was saying that "maybe the blood tests will reveal the Nicholas is allergic to the cat and we will to get rid of it." today she is pretty flat as she got what she wished for.
Poor Nicholas has become really affectionate with Puddy in the last 10 months and his eczema has blown out of control in that time. I only wish we had the blood tests sooner as they are so close now it is going to hurt to separate them.
 I know Nicholas will get over this, he is only 4 and he will face a lot more sadness in his life but gee it hurts to watch him grieving tonight.
I only hope we can find a good home for Puddy soon so we can all move on.

We also need to find a decent vacuum cleaner that can help reduce dust mites as we have to keep the carpet and floors spotless and the grass mowed short outside. we also have to have everything steam cleaned and kept spotless so it looks like i will be a full time cleaner for a while.
I hope this fixes the eczema as it would be worth all the effort and pain to see Nicholas rash free and smiling.


Looking forward to no more itchy tummy.

Nothing beats watching a little boy playing with cars

Well here we are Friday again. We are having fun playing  with the light reflected of a bike and the camera flash.

This post is from from my other blog here

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We decided we wouild reward our boys to Point Cook Airfield to the RAAF flight museum which has free flying shows every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. The weather was nice however a bit windy and we had done the static tour of the aircraft in the museum and were waiting for the flying show to begin.
Today it was going to be a WW1 Sopwith Pup.
We were walking up the the display area and we could see the Pup moving into position after doing a few practice stunts. It landed and was taxying past us when a gust of wind picked up a side of the plane and tipped it over. The pilot tried to correct and the plane veered the other way then the wing tipped up agian and the nose crashed into the ground. The pilot was ok but that was the end of our flying display.


Below is a closed up with digital zoom.

We left shortly after and had an ice cream on the beach.

Todays effort. Last weekend I took my boys fishing for the first time. We had a great time.