April Update

April brought along a few firsts for us... our first weekend holiday in Victoria, (thought we better actually see a bit of this State while we live here!) And also my first time with 'milk fever' - NOT nice! Due in part to Nathy getting his first teeth - more NOT nice (on my part :o)

Glen and I managed to escape for a few hours to see a movie - Street Kings - won't be doing that again in a hurry - $50 for a coffee then movie! I think it was more the experience of getting out of the house by ourselves, it's been a while.

We've also been on a few weekend train adventures into the city. On one trip we ventured up the Rialto Tower to a 360deg view of Melbourne city. Impressive at the start, very giddy by the end! However, our favourite city haunt has to be the wonderful Queen Victoria markets. We wander the aisles of stall after stall. Firstly clothes/toys/junk etc.. then we enter the fruit & vege section and finally our favourite, the meat/seafood & deli section. The day is ended with us sitting under a tree watching the live reggae band, drinking our coffee and eating Danish donuts...mmm. Then we head home on the train with our backpacks a lot heavier than we started. Although the poor olives never make it off the train. Glen & Keelia always make quick work of the chosen variety of the day.

For the Anzac weekend we headed off south to a place called Inverloch with two other families that we are friends with (Bruce's and Latif's). We all had 3 year old girls and 7-11 month old babies. So it wasn't hard to agree on a very family friendly holiday park to stay at and child-friendly adventures to go on. The 'jumping pillow' at the holiday park was a definite hit with the girls, but I think the babies enjoyed the trip to the beach the most - what is with babies eating handful after handful of sand? Surely it can't feel that nice, let alone taste boring!

The night we arrived home from Inverloch, my second 'first' experience kicked in... fever, achey body, and headache after headache. A few days before we left on holiday my adorable son decided to try out his brand new teeth on a couple things he shouldn't be trying them out on! He also decided being on holiday was far more interesting than continuing his important feeding routine. Hence my first experience of Milk Fever and 24 hours of feeling like death was near :o) I can almost say it was worth it to have Glen stay home from work and look after me & the kids. He even did painting and glue-ing with Keelia and cleaned the house on his day home! I need to be sick more often...