the Tooth Fairy!! Yep, the third since September. She will be back soon as Nathan has yet another loose tooth. Now that he's missing a top tooth, it's really affected his speech. For a lad who starting teething when he was almost 12 months old, he's losing them very quickly.
Last Saturday Martin and I were putting the rams out. Other than my flat tyre (and completely ruining it) all was going well until we found some woollies. Martin had run down a ewe and 3 lambs and had one more ewe to catch when he hit a clump of buffel grass and went over the handlebars on his bike. Luckily Nathan and I were there to see it happen as his 2way radio fell out of his pocket and just out of reach. I called a neighbour on the 2way and she called 000. Considering we were in a back paddock, the ambulance made excellent time and arrived sooner than we had expected. Martin had a very slow trip to town. While we knew he had some rib damage, xrays confirmed 6/7 broken ribs, with some broken twice and a broken collarbone, all on the left side.
On Thursday he was flown to Rockhampton vis RFDS suffering from a haemopneumothorax - blood, fluid and air around his left lung. A chest drain was put in and he had a special mask and machine that helps force his lungs to inflate properly and force out the unwanted fluid. He was moved to ICU on Friday. Yesterday the chest drain was removed but is still in ICU as he's had high blood pressure since Thursday and that needs to be resolved.
Hopefully he will not in in Rocky for too long, however getting him home may be difficult. With so many broken ribs he could not handle the long drive. I'm hoping he can be transferred by RFDS back to the local hospital and go from there.
On Friday, Nathan celebrated his 6th birthday...a very quiet day. Most of his presents were stashed at home and he had a bought birthday cake. We shall have a 'proper' birthday cake, when his Dad is home.
Today we began Year 1 ...with a bang!! There was no easing in for a week or so, just straight into work with a touch of revision. Having a handwriting book came as a big shock to my little Dude...he's a 'near enough is good enough' kinda kid and I'm a 'always do your best and be proud of your effort" kinda gal...so our year will prove interesting. This morning on notices, we learnt who our teacher is but are yet to chat with her on the phone. She's new to LSODE but not to the bush, so I daresay it will take her no time at all to settle in.
Here's a little something we did today:
Martin and Robert began building our coldroom today. We bought panels in Brisbane last year so it's a big jigsaw to put together. With Rob's experience, it's been made easier. Soon we'll be able to stock it!! How exciting, hmmmm and expensive.
Yesterday afternoon I went down to Washpool waterhole and took these:
Nathan celebrates his 6th birthday in 2 weeks. He has chosen a treasure chest cake, so to follow that he's having a Pirate dress up party. We worked on his invitations recently. What do you think??
I have a few other things to make in preparation for his party. If you have any wonderful ideas, I'd love to hear them.
This is the sunset we had last night! So full of colour with the sunlight reflecting off the clouds.
I had a bit of a play with the bulb setting on my camera last night too. We headed outside with a packet of sparklers, and I just kept snapping away hoping to get something decent. I am happy with the way these turned out.
Yesterday we drafted all of our sale ewes, mainly to split them up, give them a count and put them into different paddocks. Unless more miraculously turn up, we have lost about 300 in the flooding. Down at the yards, Martin was drafting, I was keeping the sheep up to him and Nathan (almost 6) was doing a mighty fine job of keeping the sheep up to me... all by himself. We were very proud of him.
Nathan adored his prep teacher. One of her favourite sayings is "You Rock!" hence the title of this layout.
One of the cluster days last year had a pirate theme and the kids dressed up. It was also close to the teacher's birthday so we made her a pirate bithday cake...with candles of course!
