Somewhat

This weekend has been somewhat good and somewhat bad.

Normal groceries thing Saturday morning while kiddies stay home with Daddy. Tried to have a nap in the arvo, between coughing and being woken up, that wasn't very successful.

Caleb and Zali had an early bath and we went to Adrian's work to watch Riverfire. They had organised a BBQ, hired seats and tables and took over the rooftop. The weather was marvellous. There were trains tooting past regularly, in front of the building is the bridge where they cross the river. Very, very nice for a little boy to watch. Four russian roulettes did some aerial acrobatics, helicopters flew around and a few other machines darted around in the sky. Again, very very nice for a little boy to watch. We enjoyed it too, it was fun.

We had sausages and steakettes and bacon, salad, rolls, cheese and sauce. Zali nuzzled on a snag, Caleb had his in a piece of bread with sauce. He was only eating the snag in the beginning, lifting his head to reveal a tomato sauce covered nose. My little Rudolph! Adrian and I had a lovely roll filled with tucker.

We watched the big digital clock in the city slowly tick over 7pm. Two F1-11's thundered past . . . right next to our building! It was very exciting, I didn't know they came so close. They crossed each other and then shot straight upwards leaving their fiery orange tails burning bright. Thirty minutes of fireworks spectacular followed, we didn't have the accompanying music cause no-one thought of bringing a radio. We were not close enough to the fireworks to hear the loud bangs which was probably good for the kids, but we saw all the lights. I love fireworks! They had some cool stuff going on, some of them turned into big red lovehearts! All the kids on the rooftop (and some of the adults) started getting a little over it and went back talking and/or playing.

Zali went to sleep on my lap shortly after the fireworks started. Caleb was a little unsure of the F1-11's and watched the fireworks for a while before getting a little bored. He wanted to go home now thanks. At 7.30pm the 'dump and burn' flying machines thundered past again. Again, I was stoked how close they came to us! The 'burn' bit lasted for ages the second time. Caleb was a bit scared now, he was unsure of the loudness and brightness and vibration. He was tired and wanted to go home.

A few people pitched in and packed up everything while I sat with one sleeping baby and one tired boy nestled into me. Really nice family night out, all over early and we were home just after 8pm. I was really tired too, and 8pm felt like the wee hours of the morning.

That one sleeping baby was woken on the way home. She did not like this and after changing into her jimmies, proceeded to scream for over an hour. Did I mention she did this in the middle of the day when her sleep was disturbed? Nothing we could do helped, she was in a right mood. Still hoping it is teeth, otherwise we have no explanation for her crankiness.

The fresh air of the evening freshened up everyone's cold. Zali has a slight runney nose, Caleb had a awful cough and runney nose that is hard to keep on top of, Adrian is getting the germs and I am still fighting a sore throat. Sheesh, so over the germs of this winter.

I have to sleep sitting upright, if I lay down I have huge coughing fits to the point where I nearly vomit. Sleeping upright is not comfortable and I have been getting small broken periods of sleep. Nasty. Mum woke me at 4.55am for the markets, I think I had actually been asleep then. Doh!

Happy Fathers Day! I made bacon and eggs while Zali spent most of the morning cranky. Because everyone was sick we had to cancel our attendance at a picnic lunch goodbye for Dana. She is leaving the country in a few weeks to live and work overseas for a while. She is a pretty cool chick, she will have a wonderful time. Hopefully we will get to see her before she leaves.

We all spent a quiet day at home trying to reduce and/or eliminate our germs. Thankfully Zali went to sleep both times today without the hour of screaming, insert a sigh of relief here! We had chicken kiev, salad and chips for dinner. An ice-cream cone for sweeties was the real winner!

I was very happy to have a sleep today when the kids went down. Still ready for sleep now, but will try and delay a little bit longer. Okey, this has turned out a little longer than expected. Oops.