the little ones...

mid august...

So it happened for the first time... Eli and I totally forgot our wedding anniversary. Oh well, life is pretty busy and I guess it just slipped our minds. We have now been married for 9 years. That is a pretty huge accomplishment I think. We have two beautiful boys, a beautiful house in the hills, wonderful family and friends... what more could we want.

yukky stomach bug...

Gosh, this season we have really been slammed with viruses and bugs. Anyway Eli and I are still recovering from a pretty miserable 24 hour stomach flu. The kids seem OK which is good, they went to school, giving us a chance to sleep all day. We even watched a movie, Gangs of New York. I hadn't seen it since watching at the cinema in New York. I really love Daniel Day Lewis, he is just amazing, although the blood and gore didn't help my tummy much. Eli is set to go back to the bar tomorrow and I am planning on filling in for a Mother's netball team in the morning... crazy!

having dinner at zugame's...

Hmmm, I thought maybe it would be a nice idea to all go out to dinner tonight as I am still pretty sacked out with the flu. I had heard about this place where the kids can play while we eat. Sounded too good to be true... and it was. It was basically a Tab hotel with a small indoor playground. Either E or I had to be looking after the kids playing and took it in turns to eat our meal.
I took Liam up into a minature climbing maze and then realized I was completely claustrophobic. I had millions of little kids climbing over me as I navigated my way back out...freaky. We got a movie on the way home for the boys from the video shop called The Iron Giant. It was a great movie and we all ended up having a nice mellow night.
Maybe no more Zugame's though... for a while anyway...

kung fu panda...

Kaisy has started Karate and he seems to be loving it. It was a bit touch and go if he could maintain concentration to see a class through, but the Sensei seems to think he will be fine.
Everything has been cruising along pretty smoothly here. It's been really cold and damp and that hasn't helped any of us totally shrug off our various colds, flus and viruses. Right now I am suffering pretty badly, worse than the others. Somehow though I am pulling it together to get things done.
Eli has a possible job in Boston on a movie, but things seem to change from one day to the next. I am trying to just leave it up top fate and not worry to much about if he will be going or not. Part of me would be fine if he didn't go as I think right now the boys really need him around. Kai especially seems to be bonding pretty strongly to him and it would be a hard adjustment for him to make to have his Daddy away for over three months.
I had a lovely Sunday lunch up here with Jeannette and Brooke. We all ate yummy food and sat around the fire. Eli had taken Kai to a BBQ so we had a chance to talk. There is so much to catch up on it seems we never really get to go into anything too deeply.
Will try and keep more current on the blog...

night out with the girls...

I had a wonderful night out with all my friends last night. We went to a bar/cafe called the Local in St Kilda. I was a little nervous as I hadn't seen everyone together for a long time. I guess I don't naturally make an effort to reconnect with old friends, I have always let connections fade away and move on, but it has been so lovely and natural to see all my old friends. I have had to confront a lot of fear I had about it and am very glad I have. I love that I am now close with Simmone again (one of my childhood/adolescent best friends). And now seeing all the girls (Brooke, Sasha, Bec, Jeannette and Kate) makes me realize that even though time passes and we all change and move on, grow up, it still really great to catch up.

Everything here is Upwey is fine. Kids are getting over colds and doing great. I took them both to have immunizations on Friday. It was hard for Kai. He was so unaware of what was coming with the needle and when it finally spiked him he was so surprised and freaked out. Liam not so bad.

Here are a few pics of us playing at home...

very quiet weekend away...

We have just returned from a weekend away with our neighbors, Carl, Mel, Kurt and Blake. Corinella is close to Phillip Island and we had all sort of plans to get out and about, but ended up lazing around the house all day instead. I guess we all needed the rest. Next time I would love to go and see the penguins, also show Eli Phillip Island.
The kids all loved playing together and were pretty rambunctious, to say the least.
We made really yummy pizzas on Friday night, but had pretty disappointing fish and chips on Saturday night.
I slept a lot n Saturday and am feeling really refreshed now.
Eli is taking the day off tomorrow and we are taking the kids to the Science Museum.
Here are some pics from this weekend.