All's good with the nose

Well the day finally came.

Melanie's had her day at the Mater to get surgery. It revealed a piece of purple foam lodged in her sinus'.

It's the purple pom-pom we thought it was.

Till next time... :-)

All's well...

Thursday 7:20pm.

No random acts of Melanie.

The Sandy House / Peanut Butter beauty Mask / MSN Messenger Blast day...

Well the title says it all really. If you're one of those power readers, you can stop reading now if you like?

My day was fine. Thanks for asking. I had a nice day at work while Lynda had the following one ....

*** Sand is Fun ***

• Lynda has the kids in the back yard while she's hanging some washing.
• The kds go upstairs of their own accord.
• Lynda thinks "Hmm. That's nice. I'll keep hanging washing"
• Turns out they've each dragged a bucket of sand from their backyard sandpit into the house and proceeded to build little sand castle in EVERY room in the house. They particularly liked building sand castles on their beds from what I hear.
• There were tears and lots of cleaning.
• Everything's all cleaned up now. There's clean sheets on the beds. The floor's been vacuumed and the rugs no longer resemble a beach.
• But as I walk around the house bare foot there's still that little bit of sand grit in everything.

*** Ben likes to MSN Blast ***

Simple story. This is the thoird time he's done it.

With his new l33t 4 year old computer haxt0r skills he's now going Start / Programs / MSN Messenger. He likes sending the little characters to my contacts. You know the kisses, the pig, the alien. All those annoying little things.

So I've had messeges left on my phone from our company lawyer "telling" me to stop sending mim this Sh*t. My colleagues in my office also keep getting messages from Ben.

He particularly likes sending people the little pig character.

What worries me though is that I have many Microsoft employees and other vendors as contacts in Messenger and I have absolutely no idea what Ben has sent to them and I don't want to ask.

Today's lesson.... If you are stupid enough to let your kids on your computer. Make sure your messenger is set to NOT remember your username and password.

*** Melanie Likes Peanut Butter ***

So we buy food in bulk. It's cheaper.
Now imagine your 6 year old smothered in the entire tub of this...

Enough said. So that was Lynda's day today. :-)

And the nose has it....

Ah yes.

About 6 weeks ago Melly comes running from her room in a bit of distress with blood coming from her nostrils. With her inability to tell us what she's done we had a look in her nose as best we could and summized there was nothing up there.

Yeh. You guessed it. We were wrong :-(

I had last Thursday and Friday off so I could play with the kids on their school holidays. A day where I sleep in and eat breakfast late, then laze around doing pretty much nothing all day. But no, Lynda kept compaining about the "foul smell" coming from Melanie.

"I'm sure there's something in her nose. We're going to get to the bottom of this today." Lynda says.

Yeh, so my holiday........... ended 10:00am Thursday.

First comes the local doctor's appointment. There's the obligatory couple of hours wait. I mind Ben while Lynda takes Melanie to the local doctor. Well "Doctor A" wasn't much use. But wrote a referral to take her to the Mater Chilidren's hospital.

So, we drop Ben at the Grandparents and head up to the hospital and sit in Children's casualty. We sit patiently, amuzing Melanie while trying to subconsciously avoid the very sick little girl next to us with Meningitis.

Eventualy we get seen some time around 4pm between the Mesozoic period and the Cretaceous period. She was a nice Doctor, but after a quick look up the nostrils she says there's nothing up there.

Melanie by this stage was taking offence to having large insrtuments
stuck up her nose all day.

Do doctors actually realise how scarey they are to kids? When you cannot explain to your child what's going on Melanie was getting justifiably scared.

So "Nice Doctor B" organises for Lynda to come back on Monday and see the ENT (Ear Nose and Throat) specialist.

Along comes Monday and Lynda has everything organised with her parents to mind Ben and off she goes back to the Mater hospital again to see the Ear Nose and Throat specialist.

Low and behold. "Nice doctor C" says...

Yep there's a lot of something up there. It's up really high and it needs to come out. We need to book her in for surgery this Friday.

Yay! Lynda was right all along. Mother knows best!!! Ha!

So that's it for now. To be continued. We'll see what this Friday brings. It's back to the Mater for a third time for what the smart people in the medical professoinal have affectionately termed "Scheduled Surgery to remove foreign object from sinus cavity of Melanie Wade"

It's been a while...

A couple of the guys at work mentioned to me today that it's been a while since my last post.

Well where do I start?

As I stare at my LCD monitor with the deep pen gouges from when Melanie drew on it last week with a biro pen, or as I tap away on my ice cream soaked keyboard I'm lost for a place to start.

Hmm yes funny that.

The ice cream is a new one. Looks like it's occurred early today and has been allowed to dry into sticky solids. Judging by the globs on the "t" "r" and "o" key and the big icecream stain that's oozed down the monitor and the big sticky patch on my nice timber floor, I'm guessing the kids have been spending the day playing their drawing and counting game on the computer.

We got this educational software from the SEDU the kids go to. It teaches the kids colour recognition, counting and lots of useful computer skills.

Bear in mind my kids are 4 and 6. I'm amazed at how well they have picked it up.

A $400 monitor and a $20 keyboard. cheap price to pay for teaching your kids to learn really. :-)