all good, thanks.

It's been a while since last I wrote. I was trying to figure out what to say, thinking that in the past I'd done a lot of whingeing on this blog and as I'm not feeling like I have much to complain about I was left a bit speechless.


Not that I think all I've ever done is complain, but maybe this blog had been a venting tool, a place to give a voice to the inner most dread and hilarity that accompanies being the mama of a Jelly Bean. 


But life is so good.


Even after this weekend, just gone, where we spent more time with him crying in the emergency department or awake fighting a crazy Bean fever than we did doing anything else. Me on the phone to everyone who would listen freaking out about him always being sick, interrupting my parents' holiday to ask them, numerous times, what on earth I should do. Or after last week's mishaps of there being a lice outbreak at kinder and then trying to wash, dry and de-bug our entire house (even the Dragon got an early flea treatment, just in case). Even after the Bean and I sat on our front steps, in two hours of beautiful sunlight, with goop in our hair, him crying, sobbing, screaming about the 'yucky comb'. Even now, I'm just happy that he wanted Vita Brits for breakfast today. 


But it's all good. He's going to be fine. Reading the temperature this morning, after 40 hours of crazy, and seeing 36.5 is joy one can not describe.

And amidst all this stress and uncertainty and trips to the hospital and doctors and nurses and tears, I felt a sense of peace. The Bean's good. I'm good. We're really good.

Things The Bean has said:
(Shorter than usual as a certain Bean played with a certain phone and deleted my note with all the cool things he says on it.. There was shouting.)


1. Volcanoes 1
TB: Mama do you see this car?
Me: Yeah.
TB: Well, this car is about to explode from this volcano.
Me: Whoah, that's a bit dangerous.
TB: Yeah, but I'm the captain of volcanoes and cars.


2. Travel 1.
TB: Can we go to Japan?
Me: Sure, one day. Why do you want to go to Japan?
TB: (Please read ALL the attitude in the world into this statement, add a raised eyebrow and a 'derr' expression if that helps)
Because they have bullet trains.


3. Listening to lots of tunes.
TB: Who's this?
Me: Joss Stone.
TB: She said he's a dirty man.
Me: Yeah, he wasn't very nice to her.
TB: Maybe she should throw some mud on his face.


4. Volcanoes 2
At kinder, one of his teachers took his obsession and ran with it. They made clay volcanoes with orange cellophane coming out the top!
TB: Jess, can I read my volcano book to everyone on the mat?
J: Sure.
(everyone sits down)
TB: You sit down over there, Jess, I've got this under control.


5. Travel 2.
TB: We should go to Hawai'i. 
Me: For the volcanoes?
TB: Yeh, but we won't go to close too the volcanoes. You just take some pictures and you can put them on my iPad.