We hope you have a great day on the jolly holidays.

Lots of love and kisses, Elliot and Oliver xxx

Simon has been to the docs on a couple of occasions recently following some intermittent chest pains that started in anger during the vacation to the Lakes a few weeks back.  Last week he had some blood taken for testing and also an ECG.  Never had one of those before 🙂

Anyway, the great news is that with the exception of high(ish) cholesterol, we are in the clear – all looks totally fine.  OK, so the 4.8 for cholesterol isn’t great, and means yet another alteration to Simon’s diet to resolve :-(.  That and an increase it fitness training, and we should be A OK 🙂

… and sure, for  the wisecrackers out there, it won’t be the last time either.  We had both boys in their baths, and Elliot was splashing so daddy thought it a smart idea to reprimand Elliot and throw water over him – Oliver thought it was hilarious – it was a real full belly laugh type.

It has rained nearly all day today 🙁

Olly’s temperature was as suspected – a 24hour thing – he woke up on Friday morning back to normal 🙂  In fact he is now going 3 to 4 hours between feeds so Vicky is more able to do things during the days.

We went to Cannon Hall this morning to have a picnic and to feed the animals etc.  The sun came out but not until the early afternoon – probably a good thing because when it did come out it was definitely skin burning temperatures 🙂

Elliot, Tyler, Becca and Alicia fed the various animals they have available (Rabbits, Guinea Pigs, Pigs (and some brand new less than 12 hours old piglets), Goats, Llamas.  At one point one of the goats stole the bag of food right out of Elliot’s hands – Elly was not hugely impressed in fairness 🙂

Photos will come soon – just got to transfer them over and sort them…

Olly has had a temperature today (38 degrees C) and has not taken all of his feeds.  The poor little fella is just a little under the weather and it sounds like he has a sore throat 🙁

It is now 10:10 pm and he took a full 7oz feed @ 8pm so will be expecting another one anytime now, and we hope he is able to “sleep it off” tonight.

On other matters, Simon has been messing with Shazam (an iPhone app) – it is VERY VERY cool in that it can record a music track (say playing on the radio), will then spend a few seconds figuring out exactly what the track is, will then log exactly what time and where you were when you recorded it and then, get this, offer you you tube videos, or iTunes store purchase of the track, and an internet search for the artist.  Incredible where the technology has taken us…..

The shared calendaring via MobileMe is awesome – Vicky and Simon now have a full online calendaring solution that automatically updates BOTH iPhones and also Vicky’s laptop on the fly.  Simon will not ever have an excuse again …. apparently 🙂

Steve finally cut the grass yesterday – it was almost 9 inches long in places – feels like a month since it was last cut….