Nearly 9 months....and breath!

Hiya,

I know. It's been ages since an update - going on 5 months now. Let me fill you in...

We finally trekked down some nurseries and had some visits. We warmed to Busy Bees which is on a lovely park around the corner from home. Gavin's kids went there when they were little and a few other people we know. The first two times, Jake balled his eyes out and really got hysterical the second time with Daddy. It's very home-y compared to alot of the ones we saw. The killer is it's £50 a day and he goes 4 days a week - arrgghhh! Thank god, we're millionnaires! Ha ha ha. He's been there for nearly 3 months now and loves it - even making into the local newspaper too after being there for just 2 days!

We've been swimming a few times too and Jake seems very at home in the water. Kicks his legs like a pro and thinks its bottle time when we're there too coz he likes to drink all the water!

Kristi my best mate from Canberra came over too for a few days in early December. She was visiting her brother Mark in London and then spent Xmas/New Years in Egypt touring around. Sounded awesome. It was great with her here and I felt like myself for a little while anyway - a few nights out, chats over some glasses of wine, etc etc.

Christmas was spent up in Yorkshire visiting Ian's family. It seemed to work well although I think this was the beginning of a few months of illness for us all. Jake seemed to go downhill from then onwards and he is still not right - chest infection and alot of coughing. This included what we think was some teething so we've had about 7 weeks of uninterrupted sleep....and still going.

New Years Eve we were in bed for 10pm and it was one of the best New Years I've had. Too bloody cold here anyway!

I started back at work on January 8th. It was hard the first few days, was in tears leaving behind Jakey but it something we've all got used to. I'm working full-time which is hard mixed with a few sleepless nights and no real weekend to relax but I'm used to the mayhem and being hectic!

Ian had an interview back at Glaxo Smith Kline (his old work before working in travel). After a long wait we found out he didn't get it - we were hoping to go on holidays if he got it (but unfortunately our trip to the Sth of France for 2 weeks was cancelled).

Feb was a bad month for all of us health wise - with Jakey going to nursery he seemed to be at home more than there coz he was picking up all the little colds and stuff. Or he caught something off me or Ian. We've all had terrible cold/flus, chest infections and finally Jake had an ear infection (I do not wish this on any parent!!!).....touch wood, none of us are sick and haven't been for a week so hopefully we're out of it all now.

Jake and I also trekked off to London to get his Australian passport - it looks fab. His passport photo is priceless - we've also sent (FINALLY) Ian's migration visa application. We are still waiting to hear but after literally years of discussion, we got everything sorted and off it went. Which means, we pray that we're back in Oz for good sometime this year (sooner rather than later!).

Anyway, enough about all the boring stuff - hope you enjoy the photos. Not many Xmas ones but as you can see the little man has grown and is still as lovely as ever.

Love Sez, Ian & Jake
xxx