Well, I've finally got my hands on a computer so I'll quickly send a note out. No, we haven't disappeared off the planet. Our study is currently being renovated and so we have no computers at home. All of a sudden you realise how much you rely on these silly things!!
We had a very enjoyable 2 weeks of school holidays with a day of kayaking, a day at King's Park and a trip to the zoo. For the rest we chilled out at home, the kids had lots of sleepovers either at home or away and we just enjoyed some time of relaxation.

Buddies at King's Park Having fun on the dinosaurs




Playing pooh sticks with bark boats...No we won't get wet!

Well, not much anyway!!

And finally watching the water fountains.

Thursday October 23
On October 23 Brett went to school and at recess time fell off the fort and broke his arm. Apparently the kids were playing dodge on the fort, and he had just thrown the ball and stepped back to run away but stepped into thin air... his arm was very badly broken, both bones snapped clean in half and moved (apparently his arm had a beautiful S-bend to it). I, unfortunately was at our annual Woman's League day, and had put my phone in the car so as not to be disturbed during our meeting!! The school got a hold of Dave who took Brett to the hospital. I made it there just on time before we had to take him to Fremantle (a bigger hospital, with better pediatric facility) because he needed a general anesthetic to pull the bones back into alignment. Thursday evening at 7 pm Brett finally had his op done. He did very well, his only complaint was the fact that he was hungry. Fasting from 10:30 onwards was really hard for him!!! As soon as he came back down to the ward Dave bought him some Hungry Jack's which he rapidly scoffed down. We were told that the bones were very loose, so to be careful...yeah, right!! I think the doctors may have forgotten they were dealing with an active 6 year old boy!! Two weeks later, and 3 x-rays later, they decided the bones had moved too much so last Thursday, Nov 6th he went back to theatre and they inserted some pins into his bones to help fuse them together. He had a lot of pain after the surgery, and needed 8 doses of Phentenol every 3 minutes until his pain was under control in the recovery room. The hospital was really good; I got to go into the theatre room with Brett both times, and hold his hand until he was knocked out, and then they called us both straight into the recovery room as he was waking up. The staff were really good to us. Now we hope and pray that Brett's arm can begin healing. Tomorrow we go back for another check up and I'm hoping they'll put his arm into a full cast. Up until now he's had his arm in a backslab or a half cast. Then he can finally go back to school. I think he's missed out enough this year!!