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NEW CAR

Yay! Finally after a while of searching Clint & I have bought our new car.
We ended up deciding on a Hyundai Tucson City, Ebony Black in colour.
I have had my little yellow beast for 6 years now & although it has done me extremely well it was time to say goodbye....
In order to buy the new car both Clint & i had to trade in our cars, so Clint had to say goodbye to Bruce, his Ute.
Clint is quite sad about this & often reminisces about the good times he had with Bruce & about the many kilometres they travelled together. (bit strange if you ask me)

Clint & i headed down to the car-yard to check out the car & take it for a test-drive. As soon as i drove it i was hooked. We went in & 3 hours later came out with papers signed & sealed.
We really needed to get a new car as my yellow one was only a 3 door so it was getting way too hard to get Charlii in & out all the time & there was just no room.
At least the new car is a wagon & has 5 doors & all the luxuries. This will definitely be our family car & hopefully we will have it for a long time to come.

Now we are just looking for Clint a car to get to & from work as at the moment he is taking the car unless i have an appointment or anything.
So finger's crossed things are looking up, the main thing is, is that Charlii will be comfortable whenever we go for a drive.

IMPORTANT!

Hi everyone

I would like to tell you about a beautiful little girl called Rani Millar.

Rani is my best friend Bec's niece & beloved daughter of Melissa & John. Rani was born on 25th August 2005 & shortly after was diagnosed with a rare disease called "Biliary Atresia."

Sadly after a year of fighting this cruel disease, Rani lost her battle & passed away on 1st September 2006. She was only 1 year & 1 week old.

Biliary Atresia is a condition in where the bile ducts in the liver are blocked and cannot drain the bile, which in turn causes jaundice and at the same time is scarring the liver.

Rani fought for a whole year with many tests, ultrasounds & much other stuff that a baby should never go through.

I am writing this post for anyone who would like to help the Royal Childrens Hospital try and research into her disease to try and prevent this from happening to other families.

The Royal Children's Hospital are having a fun run here in Melbourne & all of the money that is raised from the entry fee's will be going to the hospital.

Rani's Uncle Steven has decided to run in the 15.2km category on April 1st. Something that he has never done before but is going to to in Rani's honour.

Rani's family are trying to get sponsors for him to raise money for the hospital. All the money that they raise will go in Rani's name & go to the Liver Dept for reasearch into her disease.

Please could you find it in your hearts to sponsor Steven in this run. It would not only mean the world for Rani's family but also for the other families who are dealing with this disease.

For more information please visit www.run4rani.blogspot.com/ or contact me on my email, mobile or on my blog if you would like to donate to this worthy charity.

Rani Millar

SHE'S DONE IT!

Finally after a while of trying Charlii has finally rolled over!

She now rolls from her back to her tummy & back again....we can't stop her!

We have been teaching her how to tuck her arms under & how her body has to move to get over on her tummy & the other day while we were playing she did it all on her own. Once she did it she looked at me as if to say "how & why am i on my tummy mum?" it was so cute!

She is now cracking the sads though when she gets on her tummy because she wants to just take off & crawl but she can't figure out how to move her arms & legs. She tucks her legs under her tummy & leaves her arms still, so we have a bit of a way to go but hopefully she will get there soon.

Charlii & I went to a mother's group meet-up yesterday. I met a whole heap of mums off a website called BubHub that are around the same area as me so we decided after talking on the net that we were going to meet up.

We went to a park which had a playground & tables & had a great time. there was about 7 of us all together with kids ranging from 3 months to about 3 years old!

It was a big step for me as i haven't met any other mum's around here. It's all a bit too overwhelming, but i did it! :)

I think we are going to try & do it every month which is good because it get's us out of the house & talking to other mums that understand what we are going through.

Mum & i took Charlii swimming a couple of weeks ago, it was her first ever swim! she absolutely loved it. We were in the pool for about 1/2 an hour & all the time charlii was blowing bubbles & waving her arms & legs about splashing.

When she is a bit older i am going to take her to swimming lessons so she can splash about with the other kids but until she get's used to it i will take her on my own.

So the last few weeks have been a couple of firsts for the little munchkin!