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This is just a snapshot of one of our ‘normal’ days here at the Harvey Household. The kids were having a great time enjoying the sunshine, playing happily together, and allowing me to take lots and lots of photos of them all, even smiling nicely when I dared to ask! Having their Auntie Jode over did help with the photo taking and the nicety of the playing - she always makes things more fun! And can you believe Cooper slept through all of this fun?! So no cheeky smiles captured of our favourite nephew – this time! Next time, I’ll go and do one of those things only an auntie can do and poke him a few times so I don’t he doesn’t miss out!
It’s been a while since we have posted anything much at all. Not to say we have been idle, but the days of having hours to muck around on the peweter (just imagine Owen saying that) are few and very far between at the moment. Three children take up a whole lot of time!
Anyway, here are a few shots that Marc took of the boys on Sunday afternoon. They are growing up and changing so much!
 
 Sunday, 6th June 2010
Ella had her 4 month needles this morning. She is such a trooper, the poor little thing. While waiting for Dr MacLaverty, she charmed the reception ladies and a few of the waiting patients and then had lots of smiles and a chat to our doctor. All the while, never suspecting that she was really there to get her two needles and drink some funny tasting stuff! And even then, while she was bared legged and a bit goose-pimply she still had plenty of smiles for the nurse while she was weighed and measured before her injections.
Thankfully children aren’t like puppies, in the fact that most dogs know when they are being taken to the vet before they are even taken to the car! The next time it will be Reuben’s turn (18 month needles… a bit late, but who’s counting?!) which I am not looking forward to. He’s not so great with the whole needle thing. Actually he’s terrible with the whole needle thing!
Anyway, so Ella is 67cm, 8.5kg and has a head circumference of 47cm. Yup, she is a big girl, chubby and heavy and tall! She makes it over the 100th percentile for all three categories. Just to give you an example and put those figures into some perspective, the weight-for-age 50th percentile is just over 6kg for a 4 month old girl… No wonder she is moving into size O clothes!
My question for today is: Why is their head circumference important? I have no idea, but it gets measured and recorded at every check up and it has got a growth chart all to itself in the QLD Health Personal Health Record book. It must mean something to someone out there in QLD Health land.
So Ella is now sleeping off the shocking treatment she was given my the lovely nurse at the surgery. Hopefully she will be down for the count for at least two hours and wake up cheery for me!
I do not know one single child that this contraption isn’t a hit with. The Jolly Jumper has made it’s way back out of storage for our littlest Harvey, and she loves it! It sure beats rolling around on the floor, desperately trying to move somewhere, anywhere!
I would also like to take this opportunity to note the drool. The drool on her chin, the drool on her dress, the drool on the Jolly Jumper and the drool on the floor. This is a good drool day. By now (it’s almost 4pm here in Brisbane) she has been through a few changes of clothes and numerous bibs, just because of all the wetness! Today she has managed to stay dressed like this ALL DAY. It’s amazing!!!
As I sit here and type this post, Reuben has decided that the Jolly Jumper is a swing and Ella thinks it’s hilarious. I, however, do not. So Reuben getting in trouble is doubly funny to her.
She has also just got the hang of bouncing and spinning in the Jolly Jumper. Smart little chicken :)
Ella has also started eating ’solids’. A term so loosely used here. Rice cereal and pureed fruit/veg is not solid. It’s gross. She LOVES it. She LAUGHS through her meals. Seriously. This kid is one happy person almost all of the time. Who laughs through their entire dinner? Only Ella :D Maybe it’s to counteract all the drooling, but she does not spill, spit or generally waste a single spoonful of the stuff. Personally, I’d be feeding it to our non-existent dog under the table! I’m not complaining though, her making meal time easy counter acts her brothers making meal time loud (Reuben) and long (Owen).
She needed sunning today. Her pore bottom is a bit raw and a good dose of vitamin D, on the floor of her room in the warm was just the thing she needed. A good play in the sun was followed by an almost four hour sleep! Go Ella!!!! And then she woke up her normal happy, smiling self. Something we haven’t seen much of over the last couple of days. Welcome back, Ella Bella xo
Sunday morning I suggested we go for a drive, pick up morning tea at the Dayboro Bakery and find somewhere nice to enjoy our morning tea and the lovely weather.
After selecting a few nice things from the very good, great, bestest bakery (do you think you should go for a trip, just to try it out?! I think so!!!), we started driving the tourist road from Dayboro to Mt Mee. Not quite sure what we were going to find or if there was even anywhere to stop, we finally came across the Mt Mee Lookout.
It was a really beautiful morning, the kids were thoroughly entertained (and extremely well behaved!) by all the motor bikes and cyclists stopping in, as well as the police bike doing laps of the road. Other than a small war memerorial with some old wreaths left over from an ANZAC day service (which Owen happily spent some time at. And along with another friendly tourist we read all the plaques out to him), there are a few benches, a toilet and the actual lookout. That’s it. No play equipment, no paths to scoot on, barbed wire fences keeping the lookout-ers out of someones working property, and a bit of grass to spread out on. And the boys were kept entertained for almost two hours! This was mainly thanks to the Sunday bikers, but still, it was great to have them interested in something other than their usual pursuits for a time.
 Dad and the kids. Enjoying the day, the view, the food and of course, the company!
 Ella, just chilling out in the top spot. It's a hard life, being almost 4 months old, you know!
 Motorbikes!!!! Don't worry about the view or the cupcake, just LOOK AT THE BIKES!!!
 Owen was fascinated by the info pictures showing the names of all the places you can spot from the lookout.  What you can see from one side of the lookout.
 I even made it into a photo! It seems to be easy to take a nice photo with such lovely company and scenery!
 Taken by Owen - just one of the many bikes that Owen and Reuben got excited over.
My sister is a florist. You can imagine the hours she worked the week building up to, and on Mother’s Day. Crazy, crazy hours! Mother’s Day is bigger than Valentine’s Day in the Florist’s Calendar. If one exists. I don’t think it does. I’m sure I could Google it and find out…
Anyway, instead of trying to fit in a tiny little bit of time to gather the Carter Mothers together, we all decided that postponing our celebrations until the weekend after Mother’s Day would work out much better. And work in our favour, it did! Mum, Jodie and I met up for lunch at the new cafe on top of Mt Gravatt (delicious!) and then spent a leisurely afternoon browsing the shops and afternoon tea-ing at Garden City. With no children or husbands/fathers in tow. It was wonderful! We all concurred that it was a great way to spend our Non Mother’s Day and will most likely opt to do the same thing in 2011! My apologies for the photos – all I remembered to take pictures of was what we ate for lunch, and a real quick one of the three of us before we ate!
Three pairs of these little cuties for $5 from KMart. I just couldn’t pass them up for that price!
Since we have been back in Brisbane, my little sister and nephew usually come over to play once a week. Today was this weeks play day! Just imagine this… 3 boofy boys, 1 baby and 2 loud sisters… It makes for a fun, yet chaotic day!
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