Charles' great comeback

Rory has a habit of picking on the younger kids. for instance he will call them crazy. It is all in a joking way but sometime it upset them. Yesterday Rory was picking on Charles but Charles got his own back.



Rory: (singing) Charlie picks his nose, Charlie picks his nose.




Charles: (singing) And Rory eats it, Rory eats it.



Yes, this is all gross but good on Charles for getting Rory back. He didn't even miss a beat. It might slow Rory down a bit.

Random pictures of our family

I thought I might just put up some random photos of the kids.

Charles entertaining Benjamin

Anabelle during Juliet's soccer game

Isiah was bored at the park

Rory as a traffic monitor this week (on the right)

Juliet, Anabelle and Charles at the end of a soccer game

Benjamin - 5 months

Anabelle, Rory, Juliet and Isiah playing lips on the Xbox. We were going to go to the Royal Adelaide show but it was raining. We borrowed Grandad's Xbox 360 and bought some games instead.

Juliet and Charles entertained by a portable DVD player while the boys had Primary Achievement day.

At Carisbrooke Park. Charles and Anabelle are on the swings and Ruthie is pushing them. What a nice cousin.

Benjamin in his capsule.

Anabelle at church

soccer

The soccer session has just finished. It has been an eventful year. We would have not been able to do it without the help of family and friends. Thank you to all those that have helped us out, especially when Benjamin was born. We have watched the kids improve in their soccer skills. Isiah has become quite a good goalie, saving many goals. Juliet has managed to play games without falling on the ground and crying. She showed that she has potential to be a great player if she puts her mind to it. She is not afraid to tackle the boys who have the all. She even managed to score a goal. Rory managed to prove to his coach on the last game that he is a defender. He had a chance to get a goal but boot it over the goals instead. Charles participated in development squad with his Dad as the coach. Damien was the development squad coach and the Chairman of the club.

These are some of the thoughts from the kids regarding the soccer season:

 Isiah: Saving goals and having another player get angry at me for letting a goal in. Fun. It is fun being a defender.

Isiah and Mario (U9 coach)

Juliet:Sad the season ended. I loved it. I'm going to miss soccer. I can't wait until next year to play soccer.

Juliet with her trophy

Rory: Awesome

Rory collecting his trophy from his coach, Nick,
and assistant coach, Peter.

Charles: I like kicking the ball into the goals.

Charles with his certificate and medal for
participating in development squad

Anabelle: I want a lolly pop. (I shouldn't have asked her with a lolly pop in my mouth)

Benjamin: Is just happy he can sleep in his bed on Saturday mornings.

As for Damien and myself, we are happy to have sometime on a Saturday to do work around the home (The garden is in desperate need of attention and we need to put the vege garden in). We are also looking forward to not needing to go out on Tuesday and Thursday evening for practise.

Well done Charles

Charles has been going to Kindy for almost two terms. One of his favourite activities is going on the computer. Before your can go on you need to write for name on a board and then wait your turn. Yesterday he wrote his name without his name card. He only forgot the r but I managed to put it in for him. He has been able to recognise his name for quite a while now but has only come to terms that it reads 'Charles' not 'Charlie'. We love you Charles.

Book Week 2009 Safari

Last Friday the children had their book week parade. The theme was Book Safari. So we tried to think what they could dress as. Rory didn't take long at all to know what he was going to be.

A tiger. Anabelle is scared of him when he wears this tiger mask.


Isiah was a hunter.
Juliet was a tree with a monkey in it.



Ruth was a ballerina.

Charles was an orange Nephite.

And Anabelle was just Anabelle.

"It's all about Charlie"

Last week was a very busy week. Sundays are usually busy for Damien and this one was no different. By the time he got home we only had a couple of hours together before we were of to our nephew's baptism. It was great to see most of my family.

For those of you that didn't know we noticed some lumps on Charlie's head a couple of months ago. We saw Dr Graham a month and a half ago and he had no idea what they could be. He sent us of for a ultrasound. That showed that there were more lumps than we could see but they had no idea either. So we were sent to a paediatric surgeon, who also had no idea, a month ago. He wanted to wait a month to see whether they would go away. He had said one of the things it could be was a skin condition that would go way. So Monday Charles had another appointment with the paediatric surgeon to see what was happening with them. In that month another one had appeared and they looked slightly larger to me. The surgeon decided that he would do a biopsy to see if they could find out what it was. They don't suspect anything to concerning but we just want to know what is happening. An appointment was made for Friday to have this biopsy done. Charles had a cold so I was hoping that he would be ok for Friday.

On Tuesday Charles' cold had gotten worse. He was running around fine in the morning except for his cold. By the afternoon he started to sound asthmatic. I decide to take him to a doctor. I was told he needed to get him to hospital because his breathing wasn't to good. The others all ended up at Nanna's (Thanks Nanna). We were there from 5:30 to 10:30. The doctor spoke to us about asthma and gave us information to read. The main reason we were there so long is they wanted to monitor he to see how the treatment went. If he hadn't gotten better then he would have been in overnight. The children didn't get to bed until 11 at night. The poor things.

On Wednesday Isiah had an assembly item. We did offer a sleep in but Isiah was so keen on doing his assembly item. He has been learning about space this term and they were singing so song about it. I was fun to watch.

On Thursday I had an appointment.

On Friday Charles had his biopsy. We left home just before 7am to be at Parkwynd Hospital at 7:30am. He didn't go in until 9:30.He had to fast for the biospy and didn't start asking for a drink or food until about 20 mins before he went in. About 30 min later he was back sleeping. He slept on my lap for about 45min. He wasn't worried about his head at all. He was complaining more about the needle in his hand for the drip. He was finally able to drink when he woke up and they got him a sandwich once he was ready to eat. It was 2:10pm before we even got home. Anabelle really didn't like it. She was all over me for the rest of the day. Rory decided that this week was "all about Charlie." He also says "Charlie is CRAZY!"

Saturday was spent watching Rory, Isiah and Juliet play soccer.

I am so glad that week is over. I don't know what we would have done without Nanna. She helped out so much this week. Thankyou Nanna.


Charlie's hospital name band. He kept telling me it had his birthday on it.


The bandaid is where they did the biospy.

2008 random school photos

These are just some photos of the boys 2008 school year. Hope you enjoy.

Isiah's Road Safety Excursion






Juliet bored

Charles wasn't to happy

Sport's Day
Isiah waiting for his turn

Rory watching the races

Juliet running as fast as she could. She is the one in the purple jumper.

Rory representing the comits in a race with a team mate

Isiah with the parachute.

Book Week
I think my kids are a bit obsessed with Star Wars
Juliet Amidala

Charles as Yoda

Padwan Isiah

Commander Rory and Padwan Isiah

Commander Rory (Cody)