Bath Time

and you all thought I would only post photos of Luca in the bath! Luca doesn't like to take baths, we have no idea why. We are persevering however, he is your typical boy and is a dirt magnet! Our solution has been for either Mark or I to take a bath with him, so far so good. Photo above is of Mark and Luca last night in the bath! -kel

Petting Zoo

During the holidays we took Luca to the zoo. This was his first zoo visit and lucky Luca he was able to touch a small python. I was freaking out, meanwhile Luca could not take his hands off the beast! If given the choice I am sure he would have taken the snake home with him. Note that our next trip to the zoo Mark will be the one holding Luca for any snake petting! Luca is doing great and has made a full recovery from his sickness. We are enjoying summer with lots of beach time and lazy relaxing walks. Here's to no more snake encounters this year! -kel

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

This Christmas we had more to be thankful for than most. A week before Christmas Luca was airlifted from the Base Hospital in Port Macquarie (5 hrs drive north of Sydney) to the Royal Childrens Hospital at Westmead in western Sydney. We still don't know exactly what went wrong but the strong belief from the Pediatricians is that he contracted a major bacterial infection (they couldn't grow any cultures from his blood or urine so we still don't know for sure). The result was Luca running a fever in the 40's (Celcius) having racing heart at 210 bpm and a white blood cell count off the charts, he spent six days in hospital on a drip running some strong antibiotics through him. We are lucky that we had such an awesome Pediatrician in Port and just general great care in the first 12 hours. We were home for Christmas and Luca was almost back to normal so to say Christmas was a great day is an understatement.

Kelly and I spent the week in hospital sharing a tiny bed and managing a wash each. We were excited to get home and it was awesome to open all of the Christmas cards we got from our friends and family.

Post Christmas the weather has been near perfect and Luca is back to normal so we have been hitting the beach most every day and then heading home for a swim and some lounging around.
We would like to take the chance to pass on our best wishes for the new year. Our friends and family are incredibly important to us and you are all in our thoughts.

All the best for '08

Love,

Luca, Kelly & Mark