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Friday, January 05, 2007



Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!



I've been very busy but I have one spare bit of time right now so here I am, before I get busy again tommorow! Living up here means lots of visitors this time of year and we haven't been without any the past couple of weeks! First was PomPom who stayed until after Christmas. Christmas was lovely we stayed home and had a big lunch in the middle of which Jordy got his foot stuck through the back of his chair!! We couldn't get it back out so Joel had to SAW the chair!!! Other than that we had a great day with lots and lots of bouncing on the new tramp Jordy got for Christmas. Jordy and I took photos of the sunset together with his new camera which he is loving, so cute!




Next we headed over to Bendigo to Joel's Dad for boxing day. Jordy played some cricket with Dad, Grandpa and Uncle Josh. Yes I know I was game standing this close, and yes I did get hit - hard in the ear!! Better my ear than my precious camera though!!



PomPom (Joel's mum for those who must think who is PomPom, yep Jordan started calling her that and it stuck, even some of her friends call her that now!!) stayed on for the week, spent mostly at the river, friends are camping there also. She left Friday and we headed to Shep where Joel bought me a new wakeboard!! Haven't used it yet because the boat is not in the water! Joel had stripped parts of ours to build another to sell and is only now getting close to finished. Tommorow I am told, but then thats what he has been saying for a few days now... He's under pressure with it now though since his skiing mates have arrived and are also waiting! I can actually see into the shed from where I am sitting and I did hear it fire up before so maybe!


(Bouncing, we do have the nets up now thankfully, Santa was too tired to do it)




We traveled to my Dad's New Years Eve (also his birthday). Lisa, Mick, Bianca and Jesse also went on their way up here. Dad had told us there would be a carnival type thing happening where he lives and fireworks. We spent last NYE in the city and learnt that fireworks and Jordan didn't mix well with his severe noise sensitivity. So I asked him if he wanted to go and told him he could wear ear muffs like he does on the tractor. He asked for them on as soon as we got to the carnival and wow, what a different child, so so calm! He does struggle with the noise of crowded places but I hadn't thought to use ear muffs for it before. So he got to see the fireworks and absolutely loved them with the sound factor taken away. They were actually the best fireworks I have ever seen, we were all very happy!

So Lisa and family stayed this week and we had lots more fun at the river and home. We are missing them already!









So I have been trying for many months to cut Jordan's hair but he really, really didn't want too and made it too dangerous. I had been thinking for a while that we would have to do it while he was asleep but I knew I wouldn't be able to do it (I'm not much good with scissors!) So when he had drifted off the other night I got Lisa to do it. It was much harder than we had anticipated. Take one snip, he'd stir - roll over, say something to us or block his hair with his hands even with his eyes shut sometimes! At one point he got right up and said "I don't want to be here anymore I want to go to bed to sleep" quite angry with us, he knew we were doing something to him! He stormed off to bed with us laughing because his hair was in piggytails and all over the place! We did it in bursts until he was too awake or making it too impossible each time. At another point he had been saying "Mummy? Mummy?" and I had been saying its ok I'm right here, when he opened his eyes and saw Lisa (who quickly hid the scissors!). He shot her a filthy look and growled "Not you, I want my OWN Mummy". Poor child!


We gave up, it had taken too long for too little result but when he got up in the morning, we could see we would have to try again, he had a very punk looking style happening and it was just too messy! We were so not looking forward to another night of it, when a panicking Jordy came out with a battery Thomas stuck in his hair, his hair had been wound around one of the wheels. So out came the scissors and while he wasnt happy about it, he was less happy having Thomas stuck to his head, so thankfully the haircut got finished, well near enough anyway! Definately not bothering again anytime soon!