Day 219 - First Bloods

Busy morning today, before Maddie went to her swimming lesson I had my first blood test to track my cycle and attempt to pinpoint when or if I ovulate. The Canberra Fertility Clinic has the WORST parking in Canberra, its at the John James Hospital where the car parks are absurdly small and hard to get back out of in a car any bigger than a mini. The clinic itself was awesome, I was shown what to do and was only there about half an hour, which seemed fast seeing as the waiting room was packed. It turns out that Grace and Elsie's dance teacher Casey works at the clinic, so Maddie was pretty impressed and happy to stay, especially once she was handed a stress ball when I was. Hopefully these tests show something and it isn't too long until we can conceive as I think being here between 7.30 & 9 is just too early to be functional and out of the house.

Day 218 - Zoo Time

Mums and cubs at the zoo again today with Hugh and Claire and all the Morgan's for Graces actual birthday. The weather was shocking, it was cold windy and drizzling but the kids enjoyed the giraffe painting, book reading, snake patting and feeding Hummer time. Maddie and I walked around the zoo after the class with Hugh and Claire and I think the highlight of that for the kids was getting to use an umbrella each and being able to run around. Unfortunately for Claire Hugh took her umbrella so I am guessing she was super cold and wet by the time we finished walking around. I am pretty sure that the Zoo is the coldest place in Canberra these days, hopefully they open the aquarium soon so that if the weather is bad, we can hide in there.

Day 217 - Allergies

After a lot of tears from me yesterday thinking that Maddie would miss Grace's party as she seemed sick all morning until we gave her antihistamines, this morning she woke up a lot worse. Poor Maddie had no voice this morning and was very unimpressed with it. A quick trip to the doctors revealed that she has an allergy to something and another dose of Zyrtec cleared her right back up. I wonder what she has reacted to, with the wind so insane over the past few days it could be just about anything. At least she isn't contagious and got to go to the party yesterday, and a few days of antihistamines she should clear right up.

Day 216 - Grace's Party At Lollipop's

Grace's birthday party this afternoon at lollipops went awesomely. They seemed to have enough staff there to actually run it and while there were still a lot of kids at the centre, it seemed to be quite a bit calmer. Grace loved the throne chair and was pretty impressed with the Mermaid Barbie that we got her. Maddie loved the pass the parcel game that Leah organised to replace musical chairs, which was so much more suitable for this age group. I love that Maddie sat right next to Grace for the party, she is really taking the Grace is her best friend to heart trying to be around her almost constantly when they are together, it is pretty cute.

Day 215 - Meme

I found this on my news feed today and thought that it was just too funny not to share and then keep a record of it in my blog. I totally relate to this, the days just go so fast and we achieve nothing other than of course a shower and us still being alive when Nathan gets home.

Day 214 - Hugh's Birthday

Maddie was super excited to get to go to Hugh's birthday party today, although it did take a little convincing that it was in fact Hugh's Birthday, and hers hadn't come around again. Hugh loved the mega blocks that Nathan picked up for him, and while they aren't the size we were aiming for he sure did seem to like playing with them. This photo was taken while we were all singing Happy Birthday to him and he was telling us all to stop, it is so funny how shy so many people get when it comes time to cut the cake.

Day 213 - Science Time

Today Maddie had her first Science Time session which was ran at the dinosaur museum this week. Maddie was pretty impressed with the magnifying glass and loved looking at the rocks and fossils with it. The instructor was awesome, managing to keep control of all of the kids that attended for the whole lot of mat time while he talked about different dinosaurs and one kid answered all of his questions. The activities were awesome, with playdough foot prints Maddie is obsessed with, paper plate dino craft, colouring and a toy dinosaur that they could climb onto and pretend to ride.

We attempted to check out the museum afterwards, but Maddie was starving so she was overly emotional and insanely naughty so we headed over to Cockington Green for some lunch and a quick train ride. Thankfully once Maddie was fed she was in a much better mood so we were able to pick up some fairies and explore some of the gardens a bit more in the sun. The Cockington Green membership has now paid for itself, and even though the Science Time class wasn't at Questacon, I think the Questacon membership will soon be worthwhile too.