Elephant Down!

My day started at 0200 when my mobile phone buzzed to remind me to “feed Bryan”. Within 15 mins, I had his 2 slices of bread and ‘Tella on his plate, his cup of Baby-cino and his Spongebob cup of water on the dining table as well as my er… sup-fast? It’s amazing how I can actually eat a proper breakfast at 2 in the morning. Bryan wasn’t too fazed at the fact that it was still night-time, thanks to drawn curtains around the house. Pre-op rules stated last meal at 0330 and last drink at 0530. What to do? I didn’t want him to sleep through and end up hungry and cranky, so I had no choice but to wake him up at 2am.

A trooper he was, he ate, drank and went back to bed…. MY bed! And that can only mean one thing… no sleep for me. I drifted in and out of sleep till 6am when again, my mobile phone buzzed for all of us to wake up.

The what was supposed to be a 20minute ride to Southbank Surgery took us an hour. The bloody traffic jam from South Street ALL THE BLOODY WAY to Canning Highway was absolutely AARRRGGGGGHHAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! No other words can describe it.. honestly. Well actually there is... but since I have young eyes reading......

Nevertheless, we arrived, albeit 10mins late. Bryan had fun looking at fish, had fun chatting with the really really nice and friendly nurses here and he also made a friend too! He shared his DVD player with this pretty and friendly little girl.

First the nurses prepared his IV site and Emla-ed the back of his hands. Then they gave him chocolate flavoured midazolam to make him drunk. And boy did he! Instead of the usual giggly or sleepy effect…. he had the worst….. tears! Buckets of tears…. as though he had lost his crocodiles + bakugan + snake collection all at once…. you get the picture. Luckily, reprieve came in 10mins when the nurses whisked us into the theater. The surgeon was the clown of the theater, bringing out sticker collections and blowing up a red-back spider balloon for Bryan. And after the sedative hit the IV and Bryan gave a little cough, he was out like a light…. and that was when the nurses hurried me out of the theater and into the waiting room.

You know, you’d think that an RN like me, who has assisted in tonnes of operations, would feel absolutely nothing going through all that, but somehow, seeing Bryan, from a plucky, cheeky rascal, to slipping into unconsciousness, it tears me.

So here I am now, with 90 mins to burn. Will stop now, and get my free meal voucher from the nurse. Oh did I say free meal? Oh I meant $1500.00 meal. I’ll let you know what the menu was in a tic….

We're Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooving............. again!

After 14 months and 1 week, we are ready to move into our new home at Harrisdale. These few days, Derrick & I are busy packing stuff up and carting stuff to the new house. Today the weather has been good, no rain, and I think it'll stay the same for the next couple of days. Derrick rented a ute from Bunnings and Sam helped today despite being sick and fasting! You won't be able to believe it.... we have so much rubbish... and when I say "rubbish", I really do mean it. I have hoarded so many things i.e. plastic containers of various shapes and sizes... finally, today, I packed them up to give them to Bryan's class teacher.

Winter officially ends in 6 days! Today has been rather cool despite it being sunny. Good skies for moving.
Enough dilly-dallying... back to packing now.

Ah.... Memories..........................

Finally, the carpet’s up, the painting’s done and today will be all about cleaning up the whole house… by myself…. Derrick will be busy doing the skirting around the house. Sigh.. there goes my cleaning.

I spent a good few hours packing stuff into boxes last night and you know what I found sitting in my garage? All my memorabilia! My collections have been sitting in the garage for goodness knows how long! I was suddenly taken back to the good ol’ days. I think I must have wasted 2 hours just looking through them and reminiscing…..

One of my favourite collections is my music boxes. These I will give them to Caitlyn, to decorate her new room. I even found my stash of Little Twin Stars cards which I made for “trading” with my friends!

If you love to have a little moment of escapism or look for collector’s items or memorabilia, do check out this website from the US called Shopwiki. From movie memorabilia to trading cards, these awesome stuff will guarantee to take you back memory lane! Cigar aficionados, check out the grand range of stuff there for you to (you know you want to, Jacqui! I know you'll be drooling checking out Shopwiki!) I know Bryan will ABSOLUTELY love the fossils… This boy would turn his new room into a Dinosaur museum if he could….

Well, off to more packing and more reminiscing!

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Master Bryan

Bryan's Rule #1: Don't listen to mum....hard work does get you fed......

Yes, your eyes aren't playing tricks on you... my son does eat food other than his bread and 'tella and nuggets... Recently, after hours of Kung Fu Panda, he started using the kiddy chopsticks to eat the noodles with but alas it broke after months of being Master Bryan's chopsticks. He was relentless... he insisted on using the "big people"'s nippers as he fondly calls it. I explained to him that the 2 were different, and it would be best if he could use his spoon (yes, he didn't use a fork for it either) like before.... He had no part of it...Since reasoning with him didn't work, I told him "use la... see whether you get food in your mouth or not?" Within 5 minutes of figuring it out, from the left hand to the right.....he found his knack... and the proper way too! No criss-crossing too!

Spider Man

Spiderman! Spiderman!

My Spider senses are tingling....

Bryan is into Spiderman these days. This was taken before he found a mask to wear.. guess what his web is made out of? Derrick's army net blanket.

TO create the "swinging" effect, he tucks the other end into the drawer.... See?only he can think of it... Got to give him points for using his limited imagination hor?