This weekend just gone was another beauty. We had a show holiday on Friday and took the kids on Friday night. Anakin did a few more rides this year and Izz rode SPEED (Just before him and his cousin got on they stopped the ride and did maintenance on it! OMG! I was like "Bail out guys!")





We checked out the pavilion and some of my kids Science books were on display. I was very proud of myself because each page they'd opened them on, all the work was marked and commented on with gold stars and stickers. (It's really hard to find the time to look at all their work all the time so that was a bit of a fluke!) There was a slideshow of the class doing all different activities around the school as well and I couldn't help gushing to Greg, "Look! That's so-n-so!" and "oh look how gorgeous they are!" (They're extra cute when they're not actually in your face. No, that's not true. They're always beautiful kids.) We ate fresh cream waffles and Rotary curry chicken for dinner under the grandstand. The little lambikins and jersey calf at the petting zoo were so sweet, Anakin went through a few dollars worth of feed there!

We rode the ferris wheel and bought flashing light sabers and bubble guns and fairy floss. Izzy finally succumbed to the fashion trend of a flat broad brimmed hat. Man I've been trying to put him off buying one of those for ages. They're the ugliest looking dopiest things to wear on your head, I swear. And another time when I wasn't looking he went searching for a ying-yang pendant, except he could only find one with a couple of gunja leaves on it, so he bought it anyway! I tolerated it for a few days but made him take it off yesterday! Oh God! I hope he has more sense then that!! I've been trying to find him something nice as a replacement and then I can get rid of it all together! We stayed for the fireworks and then drove up to Cairns for the rest of the weekend.


Saturday morning I had my half price day at the op-shop (frequent shopper rewards. You should ask about that Vanilla ;). I took Izzy to the podiatrist (he's got no spring in his feet and runs along like his legs are made of concrete) and then dropped him off to his Dad who was staying at his sister's place and recovering from a gig in Port Douglas. Hung out with Tiff in the arve and then she took us home and cooked us spag-bol from Master Chef. It was pretty good too.


Greg spent the afternoon getting blind with his brother (who, after dumping my sister admits to having spend the month since, pissed or asleep! Idiot.) at various seedy locations. And managed to walk home at about 9.30pm after getting into a drunken brawl which eventually sent the venue into lockdown mode. I don't think they'll be going back there in a hurry. And that's what Greg was doing as I was having a genteel tea and talking wedding plans. Ugh!

Sunday, we got to take Bubby on the skyrail up to Kuranda with a couple of mates of ours we were in desperate need of a catch up with. Spent a few hours up there pottering around the markets and lollyshops and stuff and then took the Scenic Rail back again. I loved it! So did Anakin :). Can't wait to do it again!

There was some highlights in amongst our excellent weekends too. Playgroup is always one of them. Been meeting some lovely Mums there and Anakin is enjoying himself more and more. And Greg's been playing awesome basketball every week.

And last Tuesday (after getting put off for another week) I had my first anti natal appointment. I inquired as to whether they could squeeze me in down in the XRay department after I was done, and they could!! So I was busy trying to scull down enough water in time after just totally emptying myself for a wee test! My bladder was still completely empty once I got there (my stomach was pretty full though!) but gradually started to fill up the longer I lay there. I'd asked Greg if I was allowed to find out the sex the previous afternoon, if by chance they could fit me in, he thought about it for a bit and then said "Yeah, okay, if I get some tonight." (I looked at him unbelieving, thinking after all this rigmarole is THAT all it takes!!) And then he goes "AND tomorrow night!" I suppressed my urge to point out to him that he gets it all the bloody time anyway so that was a pretty senseless bargain and shouted "DONE!!" instead and raced away to hide so he couldn't change his mind! Anyway it all went really well, I think, he didn't really say too much. I dunno about the machinery they use in that place though, I think it's a bit out dated and the images I was seeing weren't as clear as I'd hoped. I'm hanging out for next Tuesday when I can talk to the doctor about it all and hopefully get some film or a CD. The bloke doing it was a trainee and when it came time to find out if Berry has girl or boy bits he took a painfully long time and then says "I'm sorry, I can't actually see what your baby is today.." I swallowed down the disappointment and said bravely "Oh. That's okay.." but we were both still searching the screen when out of all the graininess came the most obvious little set of bollies and a little dicky coming out between. I was like "OH LOOK!!" and he said "Oh, hang on, here we go, it looks like a boy.. blah blah blah, we can't say 100% because sometimes it can be a swollen vagina etc. Then he got his supervisor in to confirm that he had all the images needed etc. So the older bloke sat down for another good look around while I couldn't stop grinning at the thought of another little boy to add to my bunch. I asked him to have another look between the legs for me, which he did and agreed that there seemed to be a definite penis there and that he would be extremely surprised if it turned out otherwise . Hee hee hee!! I can't wait to meet him!!!