Our Life Down Under

Been some big storms here over the last few days, and another one is forecast for tonight.

We’ve managed to avoid the worst of it, but areas around us have had big floods and roofs ripped from houses. Lots of people not made it into work today due to the flooding.

Amazingly Ella managed to sleep through all the thunder and heavy rain last night, even though it woke Val and I a few times.

In baby related stuff. Val has a huge belly on her now and looks ready to pop. We are both getting nervous and excited, although Val is probably more nervous than excited.

I think Ella is beginning to realise something is up. With mummy’s tummy getting so big and our constant pointing to it and saying “baby” and putting her hands there to feel the kicking. She knows something strange is going on. She will be getting a shock in a couple of weeks.

It’s a shame that Twitter stopped working with SMS messages because it would have been the perfect way to keep you all informed, blow-by-blow when Val goes into labour. But having said that the Twitter updates I send still go to the side bar to the right of this site and I will be sending pictures directly to the site from my phone after the baby pops too.

So I guess I’m saying if you want the baby news hot off the press this is the place to get it. If your interested in signing up with Twitter you can find my profile here.

Also, I have some pictures to get up on Flickr from David and Laura’s visit 2 weeks ago too. I should get round to that in the next day or so.

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Ella is Now 2 foot 7 3/4 inches. She’s grown a whole 30cm since she was born.

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We got a letter today saying that we have been accepted to the Mater Mothers Hospital in Brisbane.

I has a very good reputation, a lot better than the other two options we had. It’s apparently hard to get into (especially at this late stage), people will request to go there very early on in their pregnancy normally. So we feel pretty lucky and relieved.

Val has her first appointmant there on the 12th of September.

Just off to pickup Edel and Breda-Ann, as they are moving in with us tonight.

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Paula came up from Sydney for the weekend and we drove up to a place called Montville for the day on Sunday.

Edel had been to Montville a couple of weeks ago and said it was a nice place to visit, so we drove the 1.5 hours north with Paula and had a look around. Lots of nice little shops and cafes, including the Connemara Cottage shop.

A few new pictures up on Flickr including Ella getting a new doll that Paula was nice enough to buy her.

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Well some of you may know, but for those of you that don’t – it looks like we are moving to Queensland.

We have got a bit sick of how expensive Bondi is over the last year or so. We can get a 4 bedroom house in Queensland for the same price as our 2 bedroom unit in Bondi.

So with our expanding family it seems to make sense.

This afternoon we are flying up to stay with our friends, the Macaulys, for a long weekend. I have 2 job interviews lined up and hope to organise more when we are there. We also have some houses to look at too.

So its going to be a busy weekend. But we hope to keep you posted with a website update everyday while we are away. So check back regularly over the next 5 days to find out what’s going on.

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