Doesn't that make you smile?p.s. Sicknesses were short-lived. Ammon and Leah went to school/kindy the next day.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Bad night
Last night was one of those fun nights that just keep going and going.
I slept ok till Caleb's feed about 1.30am, but found he was wet so had to change him before feeding. Not long after that I woke to the sound of Ammon being sick in his bed. Luckily not too much so quickly changed him and his pillow and he went back to sleep while I rinsed them out and went back to bed. Then Leah comes in asking me to take her to the toilet. I assumed she didn't want to go in the dark so told her to turn the hallway light on and off she goes. Then I smell it.... and she comes in saying it came too quickly. I go to look and there is diaorhea (?) all over the toilet floor and mat. Ugh! I clean her up and send her back to bed and then tackle the floor, holding my breath the whole time. Mopping, rinsing, washing then back to bed. Then Caleb wakes again but it's too soon for a feed, I try anyway when he doesn't settle but he mucked around so I burped him and put him back to bed. He still didn't settle even after Nate tried so he comes to bed with us. Finally, he sleeps, then Nate starts snoring!!!! Between that and the washing machine there really wasn't much hope for me. About 30 mins later it's time to wake up and start the day. I feed Caleb and find him wet again (what the???) so in the shower we go.
Ammon is clingy and just wants a bottle. I don't want to give him one but he pushes for it, so I did, and he vomits on the couch. Clean up again.
Can still smell Leah's poo's so check the laundry and found she'd put her pyjama pants full of poo's in the laundry basket. Oh joy. So the washing begins again.
Leah and Ammon have been watching TV and managed some breakfast while the washing is done, my bed is changed and Caleb sleeps. He's due to wake up now.
You know it's only 10.30am. I think I'm in for a long day. Surprisingly I'm in a fairly decent mood so far, but maybe we should give that some time. It's bound to change by the end of the day. Mum I'm so happy we're coming your way for dinner tonight.
p.s. Basketball is back on and Em is happy as.
p.p.s. Happy Birthday Regan, I hope it's a fab day.
p.p.p.s Really looking forward to Petria living a short walk away from us!
I slept ok till Caleb's feed about 1.30am, but found he was wet so had to change him before feeding. Not long after that I woke to the sound of Ammon being sick in his bed. Luckily not too much so quickly changed him and his pillow and he went back to sleep while I rinsed them out and went back to bed. Then Leah comes in asking me to take her to the toilet. I assumed she didn't want to go in the dark so told her to turn the hallway light on and off she goes. Then I smell it.... and she comes in saying it came too quickly. I go to look and there is diaorhea (?) all over the toilet floor and mat. Ugh! I clean her up and send her back to bed and then tackle the floor, holding my breath the whole time. Mopping, rinsing, washing then back to bed. Then Caleb wakes again but it's too soon for a feed, I try anyway when he doesn't settle but he mucked around so I burped him and put him back to bed. He still didn't settle even after Nate tried so he comes to bed with us. Finally, he sleeps, then Nate starts snoring!!!! Between that and the washing machine there really wasn't much hope for me. About 30 mins later it's time to wake up and start the day. I feed Caleb and find him wet again (what the???) so in the shower we go.
Ammon is clingy and just wants a bottle. I don't want to give him one but he pushes for it, so I did, and he vomits on the couch. Clean up again.
Can still smell Leah's poo's so check the laundry and found she'd put her pyjama pants full of poo's in the laundry basket. Oh joy. So the washing begins again.
Leah and Ammon have been watching TV and managed some breakfast while the washing is done, my bed is changed and Caleb sleeps. He's due to wake up now.
You know it's only 10.30am. I think I'm in for a long day. Surprisingly I'm in a fairly decent mood so far, but maybe we should give that some time. It's bound to change by the end of the day. Mum I'm so happy we're coming your way for dinner tonight.
p.s. Basketball is back on and Em is happy as.
p.p.s. Happy Birthday Regan, I hope it's a fab day.
p.p.p.s Really looking forward to Petria living a short walk away from us!
Monday, July 26, 2010
Ammon's a big boy now
Yep - Ammon has finally done poo's on the toilet. Daddy took him tonight. He didn't want any help though, and waited for Nate to leave him to his business, but then called for us when he was done. He had a really big smile. Yay Ammon!
Shocking what a mother gets excited about!
Today Emerson was told there would be no basketball team this season. The basketball outfit misplaced their team entry and now there is no room on the draw for them. She is not happy. However with the jump jam finals and her dancing performance in term 4 she is going to be kept busy enough. She also has choir and they are singing at a local church in a couple of weeks. I guess she and Daddy will have to have lots of one-on-one to keep her bball skills up till next year.
Another thing with Emerson - I got sick of her biting her nails (they look like Regans!) so I got her some of that horrible nail polish that tastes foul. It is working. We've only been using it since friday but so far so good. This morning she was all excited that she could see her nails growing.
Shocking what a mother gets excited about!
Today Emerson was told there would be no basketball team this season. The basketball outfit misplaced their team entry and now there is no room on the draw for them. She is not happy. However with the jump jam finals and her dancing performance in term 4 she is going to be kept busy enough. She also has choir and they are singing at a local church in a couple of weeks. I guess she and Daddy will have to have lots of one-on-one to keep her bball skills up till next year.
Another thing with Emerson - I got sick of her biting her nails (they look like Regans!) so I got her some of that horrible nail polish that tastes foul. It is working. We've only been using it since friday but so far so good. This morning she was all excited that she could see her nails growing.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Nieces
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Jean and Rose....
Happy first Birthday to you!!
Have fun with the ball popper.
Lots of love from Aunty, Uncle, Emmy, Leah, Ammon and Caleb. xxxxx
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Jean and Rose....
Happy first Birthday to you!!
Have fun with the ball popper.
Lots of love from Aunty, Uncle, Emmy, Leah, Ammon and Caleb. xxxxx
Friday, July 09, 2010
Four weeks old
Yesterday Caleb was up to 5110g, so had gained 300g for the week. It seems I can expect him to gain this same amount each week for the next couple months. He's a little taller, head a little bigger and certainly not feeling like a newborn any longer (till I bath him and then he feels tiny again - no clothes).
Thank you to Ryan and Logan for his toy. It is clipped to his carseat now for him to look at. It was nice for Caleb to have a cuddle with Logan too.
Thank you to Ryan and Logan for his toy. It is clipped to his carseat now for him to look at. It was nice for Caleb to have a cuddle with Logan too.
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Vail Family History
I came across this info on Sally Steel's website. Most of this I knew but it's great to read again.
All of these people are in our family history on my Dad's side.
Turtle Vail 1770
Between 1799 and 1804, Turtle and Elizabeth Vail baptised five children at St Nicholas Rochester in Kent. Elizabeth was the daughter of James and Amy Knight of Hartlip in Kent. Four more children were baptised at St Margaret's in Rochester from 1807 to 1813.
Turtle was described as a veterinary surgeon by his grandson, so he may have been a farrier.
As nearly 30 years had elapsed, I have assumed that this is the son born in Sussex in 1770 to Turtel Vail and Elizabeth Bedford.
Turtel Vail
Turtel [sic] Vail and Elizabeth Bedford were married at Ferring in Sussex in March 1769. The vicar noted that they were both travellers and had only published banns in the church three several Sundays. Turtel was able to sign his name on the register. The witnesses were John Caplin and James Bougan.Their son Turtle as christened in Ferring in June 1770.
Miriam Knight Neal
Miriam Knight Neal was born in 1800 at Rochester in Kent, England. Her father was a carrier. She was the first of seven children that we know of, and was christened at Mount Ephraim-Lady Huntingdon's, at Tunbridge Wells in Kent. She married Luke Knight Vail in 1824, possibly at St Marylebone in London [from her death certificate].She had eight children that we know of, with two daughters possibly dying in infancy. In 1852, her eldest son Edward migrated to Melbourne with his wife and child. Her eldest daughter Ellen had also married.Miriam, Luke and their four younger sons arrived in Melbourne on Goldfinder in February 1855.Miriam's husband died three days after they arrived in Melbourne. Her youngest was only 11 years old.Miriam died at her son Charles' home in Chapel Street, Prahran in 1873, and was buried at St Kilda cemetery.
Luke Knight Vail 1800
Luke Knight Vail was born in 1800 and baptised at St Nicholas, Rochester in Kent. He became a tailor, a trade which continued in the family. He married Miriam Knight Neal in London in 1824 and they had eight children that we know of, two daughters dying in infancy. It is interesting that they each had the same second name, suggesting that they may have been related. Luke's mother was the daughter of James Knight, a blacksmith in Hartlip, Kent. Miriam's grandfather was James Knight, a blacksmith in Tonbridge, Kent.
All of these people are in our family history on my Dad's side.
Turtle Vail 1770
Between 1799 and 1804, Turtle and Elizabeth Vail baptised five children at St Nicholas Rochester in Kent. Elizabeth was the daughter of James and Amy Knight of Hartlip in Kent. Four more children were baptised at St Margaret's in Rochester from 1807 to 1813.
Turtle was described as a veterinary surgeon by his grandson, so he may have been a farrier.
As nearly 30 years had elapsed, I have assumed that this is the son born in Sussex in 1770 to Turtel Vail and Elizabeth Bedford.
Turtel Vail
Turtel [sic] Vail and Elizabeth Bedford were married at Ferring in Sussex in March 1769. The vicar noted that they were both travellers and had only published banns in the church three several Sundays. Turtel was able to sign his name on the register. The witnesses were John Caplin and James Bougan.Their son Turtle as christened in Ferring in June 1770.
Miriam Knight Neal
Miriam Knight Neal was born in 1800 at Rochester in Kent, England. Her father was a carrier. She was the first of seven children that we know of, and was christened at Mount Ephraim-Lady Huntingdon's, at Tunbridge Wells in Kent. She married Luke Knight Vail in 1824, possibly at St Marylebone in London [from her death certificate].She had eight children that we know of, with two daughters possibly dying in infancy. In 1852, her eldest son Edward migrated to Melbourne with his wife and child. Her eldest daughter Ellen had also married.Miriam, Luke and their four younger sons arrived in Melbourne on Goldfinder in February 1855.Miriam's husband died three days after they arrived in Melbourne. Her youngest was only 11 years old.Miriam died at her son Charles' home in Chapel Street, Prahran in 1873, and was buried at St Kilda cemetery.
Luke Knight Vail 1800
Luke Knight Vail was born in 1800 and baptised at St Nicholas, Rochester in Kent. He became a tailor, a trade which continued in the family. He married Miriam Knight Neal in London in 1824 and they had eight children that we know of, two daughters dying in infancy. It is interesting that they each had the same second name, suggesting that they may have been related. Luke's mother was the daughter of James Knight, a blacksmith in Hartlip, Kent. Miriam's grandfather was James Knight, a blacksmith in Tonbridge, Kent.
They emigrated to Melbourne in late 1854 on Goldfinder with their four younger sons, the eldest son having arrived there with his wife and child in 1852. Their daughter Ellen had married in London in 1852.Luke died of tuberculosis three days after arriving in Melbourne. He may have taken the voyage to relieve his illness although his death certificate says he was only ill for 6 weeks.
Elizabeth Ramsay
Elizabeth Ramsay was born in Glasgow circa 1837, the daughter of a blacksmith, Lucis Ramsay, and Susan Williams. In 1854, as a domestic servant age 17, she left Dublin and embarked on Marion at Liverpool, arriving in Adelaide in December that year. Also on board were Margaret Ramsay, domestic servant age 19, Thomas Ramsay, a carpenter from Fife and his wife Janet age 18. We do not know if they were related, but Margaret may have been her sister.Elizabeth spent two years in South Australia before coming to Melbourne where she lived for a while in a tent on the banks of the Yarra.She married Charles William Vail in 1857 when he was working as a tailor in Collingwood. They had two sons, the second one dying when he was only eleven months old.Elizabeth was widowed in 1888. By this time her son had married and had a growing family. She is listed in 1895 Trades directory as a greengrocer at Glenferry road in Malvern, where the family had their tailoring business.In 1898 Elizabeth remarried. Her second husband William Knight Vail, was also a tailor and possibly a cousin of Charles. His wife had died three years earlier and his three children had also predeceased him. It may have been a marriage of convenience if they were living in the same house. William died three years later and was buried with Elizabeth's family at St Kilda cemetery.When her daughter-in-law died in childbirth in 1899, her son Luke disappeared and Elizabeth raised the children with the help of her eldest granddaughter Elizabeth, who married in 1912. In later years of her life she lived in Caulfield with her other granddaughter Amy who married in 1918.There was no record of the second marriage on her death certificate or tombstone when she died in 1921.
Charles William Vail
Charles William Vail was the second son and fifth child of Luke and Miriam Vail. He was born in London in 1833 and emigrated to Melbourne with his parents and three younger brothers in 1854. He was working as a tailor in Collingwood when he married Elizabeth Ramsay in 1857.Two years later he was listed as a Tailor at Commercial Road Prahran, then in 1865 at York Street in Emerald Hill. His mother was living with him at Chapel Street Prahran when she died in 1873 and when his son Luke married in 1881.They had moved to Glenferrie Road in Malvern by the time he died of epileptic fits and exhaustion in 1888. The family continued to live in this shop until perhaps the end of WW1.
Catherine Jane Sergeant
Catherine Jane Sergeant was born at The Leigh, near Geelong, in 1859. She was the eldest child of William Foster Sergeant, a labourer, and Bridget McGune.She was perhaps working as a servant in Melbourne when she married Luke Knight Vail in 1881.They had eight children, with one son dying in infancy and the last one dying soon her in 1899. Her mother-in-law who lived with them and continued to care for the children wrote on the family portrait - "she died to enable another child to be born" - although the death certificate says that she died of pneumonia and heart failure.
Luke Knight Vail 1858
Luke Knight Vail was born at Chapel Street, Prahran in 1858. A younger brother was born two years later, but died within the year, so Luke grew up as an only child. His father was a tailor who had come from London with his parents and four brothers. His mother had emigrated from Scotland or Ireland.Luke married Catherine Jane Sergeant at his parents home in Chapel Street, according to the rites of the Baptist Church, in 1881. He was a tailor like his father, uncles and grandfather.His father died in 1888 and ten years later his wife died after giving birth to their eighth child. After this Luke apparently left his family in the care of his ageing mother. We do not know if any of the family knew where he went but he died in Bathurst, New South Wales, in 1919. He had been working as a groom at the Sawmills Hotel there and had died of mitral stenosis and chronic nephritis.One of his sons went to New South Wales. Malvern enlisted at Moore Park in Sydney in 1916 and married at Casino in 1917. However we do not know if he was in touch with his father.
Elizabeth Ramsay
Elizabeth Ramsay was born in Glasgow circa 1837, the daughter of a blacksmith, Lucis Ramsay, and Susan Williams. In 1854, as a domestic servant age 17, she left Dublin and embarked on Marion at Liverpool, arriving in Adelaide in December that year. Also on board were Margaret Ramsay, domestic servant age 19, Thomas Ramsay, a carpenter from Fife and his wife Janet age 18. We do not know if they were related, but Margaret may have been her sister.Elizabeth spent two years in South Australia before coming to Melbourne where she lived for a while in a tent on the banks of the Yarra.She married Charles William Vail in 1857 when he was working as a tailor in Collingwood. They had two sons, the second one dying when he was only eleven months old.Elizabeth was widowed in 1888. By this time her son had married and had a growing family. She is listed in 1895 Trades directory as a greengrocer at Glenferry road in Malvern, where the family had their tailoring business.In 1898 Elizabeth remarried. Her second husband William Knight Vail, was also a tailor and possibly a cousin of Charles. His wife had died three years earlier and his three children had also predeceased him. It may have been a marriage of convenience if they were living in the same house. William died three years later and was buried with Elizabeth's family at St Kilda cemetery.When her daughter-in-law died in childbirth in 1899, her son Luke disappeared and Elizabeth raised the children with the help of her eldest granddaughter Elizabeth, who married in 1912. In later years of her life she lived in Caulfield with her other granddaughter Amy who married in 1918.There was no record of the second marriage on her death certificate or tombstone when she died in 1921.
Charles William Vail
Charles William Vail was the second son and fifth child of Luke and Miriam Vail. He was born in London in 1833 and emigrated to Melbourne with his parents and three younger brothers in 1854. He was working as a tailor in Collingwood when he married Elizabeth Ramsay in 1857.Two years later he was listed as a Tailor at Commercial Road Prahran, then in 1865 at York Street in Emerald Hill. His mother was living with him at Chapel Street Prahran when she died in 1873 and when his son Luke married in 1881.They had moved to Glenferrie Road in Malvern by the time he died of epileptic fits and exhaustion in 1888. The family continued to live in this shop until perhaps the end of WW1.
Catherine Jane Sergeant
Catherine Jane Sergeant was born at The Leigh, near Geelong, in 1859. She was the eldest child of William Foster Sergeant, a labourer, and Bridget McGune.She was perhaps working as a servant in Melbourne when she married Luke Knight Vail in 1881.They had eight children, with one son dying in infancy and the last one dying soon her in 1899. Her mother-in-law who lived with them and continued to care for the children wrote on the family portrait - "she died to enable another child to be born" - although the death certificate says that she died of pneumonia and heart failure.
Luke Knight Vail 1858
Luke Knight Vail was born at Chapel Street, Prahran in 1858. A younger brother was born two years later, but died within the year, so Luke grew up as an only child. His father was a tailor who had come from London with his parents and four brothers. His mother had emigrated from Scotland or Ireland.Luke married Catherine Jane Sergeant at his parents home in Chapel Street, according to the rites of the Baptist Church, in 1881. He was a tailor like his father, uncles and grandfather.His father died in 1888 and ten years later his wife died after giving birth to their eighth child. After this Luke apparently left his family in the care of his ageing mother. We do not know if any of the family knew where he went but he died in Bathurst, New South Wales, in 1919. He had been working as a groom at the Sawmills Hotel there and had died of mitral stenosis and chronic nephritis.One of his sons went to New South Wales. Malvern enlisted at Moore Park in Sydney in 1916 and married at Casino in 1917. However we do not know if he was in touch with his father.
Monday, July 05, 2010
To Dad
Happy Birthday Papa!! I hope you have a great day today. 65 eh? I know you're looking forward to retiring, but are you sure you don't want to hang around Ngara High for maybe another 10 years so I can send the kids there for you to teach??? Options here in Hamilton seem a little limited (Fairfield where they get attacked or Fraser where they can get lost in the multitude!).
I'm looking forward to lunch with you today - see you soon.
Thursday, July 01, 2010
Heavy Boy
Caleb is piling on the weight. Gained 550g this week to now weigh 4810g.
Emmy's team won their basketball final last night. She also did a great jump jam performance at school yesterday. I filmed both, so once I track down a DV cable for my camera I'll put some video on to show you.
Emmy's team won their basketball final last night. She also did a great jump jam performance at school yesterday. I filmed both, so once I track down a DV cable for my camera I'll put some video on to show you.
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