Land Down Under

G’day!! Well, all back safe and sound. The start of the trip didn’t bode well……..a couple of days before we were due to fly out we all started to get a cold. Turned out this wasn’t just a normal cold…it was The Cold from Hell. Oh joy of joys. You know you hear the urban legend about the night from hell re ill children? Well it isn’t a myth…we lived it! The night before we were due to fly to Oz, Tilly woke at 1am…streaming cold, her throat was husky, she was miserable as sin. I felt her pain….I was there too and I couldn’t swallow, breathe, sleep…..brought her into our bed and finally at 3am she fell asleep. Took her back to her room and climbed back into my bed……for Finn to wake……this is the boy who hasn’t woken up in the night for over 2 years…….he came into bed with us all snotty, coughing, feeling like pants…….he fell asleep at 5am. The alarm went off at 530. Oh how much did I want to get on a plane for almost 8 hours………..er, not much really!

Won’t even mention the flight………..poor Tilly, she really was ill.
So arrive late at night, all knackered and had to be up early to get to the hospital. Tilly had another night of being poorly.......

Turned up at Westmead, and they gave us our own room so we didn’t infect everyone else! Lepers! It was then a case of seeing lots of people, having lots of tests and lots of talking. Poor Mister Finnbin…he was feeling so miserable and still had to endure people prodding him, taking blood (lots of blood!!!), x-rays etc etc. Despite his cough and cold, the docs were really pleased with him but we had to see what the tests revealed first.

And then we were free!!! To be honest, all we did was go back to the hotel and sleep…we all felt so rough.

The next day we drove to see Justin’s dad and stepmum for the night. Finn had an absolute ball……he fed the kookaburras that come everyday to see Harry and Trees (not surpsrised…they are fed raw steak!), played with the horses that live at the end of their garden and best of all got to drive their lawnmower! Finn has a mini obsession with people cutting the grass so was beside himself!! He was so good at driving it too.











After all this adventure we drove up to the south coast where we had hired a cottage with Justin’s brother and his family. His girls, Phoebe and Poppy are similar ages to our two. Was sooooooooooooo cute how they got on. Had such a lovely time and was so chilled and relaxed, despite the weather being a bit pants. But at the back of our minds was the results….hate the waiting……….then on Tuesday they rang……….all clear! Lungs 100% perfect, no infections, everything really good!! How fab???!!! How brill is my little man?????




The Cousins

Finn's new best friend....Chewbacca.

Poppy and Tilly

Finn meeting Skippy!

How gorgeous were the koalas?

Sorry it is such a waffle....am off to bed.....still not feeling quite right.....need another holiday!!!!!