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Tourette’s Syndrome
It has been a tough week. We suspect Daniel has Tourette’s syndrome. He’s always had a tic – involuntary movement – of some sort, and over time, it has changed. But the tic has never really been a problem until this week when it became much more vocal and almost constant. The vocal aspect consists…
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Making money
Daniel and Elizabeth have lately been playing with the little girl who lives next door. She’s about Daniel’s age and she comes to our house and the three of them play mummies and daddies. Yesterday during their game, Daniel went off to the play area and left his friend alone in the bedroom. We naturally…
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Hobsonville Point
There’s a very interesting development towards the west of Auckland called Hobsonville Point. It overlooks Waitemata Harbour from the west and was a New Zealand air force base for almost 100 years, providing a crucial role during WWII. Now it is the site of a planned community or township with a ferry service to Auckland…
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At last, acceptance at the App Store!
At last my app got accepted into the app store. It’s called SoniaClock after my friend, Sonia. It does have a minor bug which I found last week but I didn’t want to remove the binary from the queue since it takes so long to get reviewed. If I remove it and fix the problem, I have…
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Elizabeth and her accessories
Elizabeth loves accessories. In particular, she loves her hat and “sunnies” – as she likes to call them – and never leaves home without them. She always wears her goggles at the pool, even though she never puts her head under water and is often seen decorated with an assorted mix of necklaces, bangles, rings…
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Conversations with Elizabeth and I want an iphone
Me: I love you Elizabeth. And we love Daniel. And we love Daddy. And we love Freud.Elizabeth: And we love the computer. That’s my girl. She’ll be programming iphone apps in no time. Speaking of iphone apps. I desperately *need* an iphone. It’s tricky learning how to program for the iphone when one is not…
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A new feature for my app
My clock app was rejected by Apple again. I was kind of expecting this since I really hadn’t added much in the way of features to it so I’ve been brewing another really cool feature which is now up and running. Now my app displays the time, day of week and the current alert status…
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How many features does a clock need?
Over the past year or so I’ve started teaching myself how to write apps for the ipod and iphone. I’ve made a couple of very simple ones which were accepted into the App store which is a feat in itself. I don’t know how many people know this but every single app is checked by…
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Freud
Freud has stopped eating again. He has not eaten anything in more than 24 hours. We do not know why because he had some blood tests this week and his kidney levels, although abnormal, are similar to the test from a couple of months ago. There must be something else wrong as well. Yesterday afternoon…
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A day of doctors
It has been a day of drama. This morning we took Daniel to Starship Hospital to have his hearing checked which turns out to be absolutely fine. We got a referral for him about a month or so ago and I thought we’d be waiting for ages and ages to get an appointment but someone…
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School holidays
The school holidays have begun and I’m not sure how Daniel will cope without school for two weeks. Last week, when I was planning our trip to the Coromandel, I thought it might be nice to leave a little earlier and discussed with Daniel the possibility of collecting him before 3pm. He was horrified by…
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The Coromandel
We are in the Coromandel with Mum! She and Doug arrived at the last minute on Thursday and we all decided it would be nice to go away for the weekend so here we are. The journey here was a little stressful. We left Auckland at 4pm yesterday afternoon. All the tourist info states it…
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Not fat…
Daniel: You’re fat ElizabethElizabeth: I not fat, I bewtiful!
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Our two little Aussies
I have created my own shop on etsy, viewable here – http://www.etsy.com/shop/fattylama There’s a cute photo of Elizabeth modelling one of my hair clips. My life has suddenly become so easy now that Daniel is at school. He was a challenging kid. He’s matured and become easier with time but Elizabeth is so easy compared with…
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Daniel’s girlfriends
Daniel plays with two little Korean girls every day at school. According to his teacher, they adore him. The other day Daniel’s teacher said they were both sitting next to him at lunch, but so close to him that they were practically sitting on him. She told the girls to give him a bit of…
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Goodbye, Zeki
Zeki is dead. We took him to the vet this afternoon and had him put to sleep. We had been thinking about it for a while but the final straw was him biting both Elizabeth and Ben yesterday. The wounds are minor but I would rather write about his finer moments and make this an…
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Pooth and fiction
Today at Daniel’s school, all the kids were sitting together and someone noticed one of the girls was missing. “Where’s Charlotte”, they said. Daniel said, “She might be doing a big poo. Daddy takes ages when he does a poo, especially when it’s bed time”. The strange thing is, it’s not true at all. Daniel,…
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Seeya!
I was struggling to convince Elizabeth it was time to leave the shopping mall on Saturday afternoon. She was happily playing on one of those coin operated machines. So I tried a bit of reverse psychology and said “goodbye” then proceeded to walk away. I was just about to go through the automatic doors to…
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Conversations with Daniel
I am doing a short course this weekend which runs from 9 till 4 so Ben has had been entertaining the children. Yesterday he took them to the museum and when he pulled up outside to park, Daniel said, “You found it, Daddy. Well done.” The man inside the museum dispensing tickets was bald and…
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Zeki and Daniel updates and more
I have been unable to test Zeki’s blood glucose for a little while because I ran out of test strips and the local pharmacy was going to charge over $60 for a pack of 50 strips which is obscene. Of course if I was a diabetic I’d be able to get them cheaply on prescription…
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