They're home! (life goes on)

Dad and I picked up the girls on Friday morning. Good to have them back, though I must say the bachelor lifestyle we had this past week wasn't half bad: quality food (pizza, burgers and the occasional bit of Japanese), culture (mostly loud music and some dancing) and heaps of wrestling.

My furry kiwi mate Funn-Maxum and I gave Ella a warm welcome. Her reaction was the equivalent of a teenager's 'whatever'. Never mind, we're glad she's here.

From that point, pressies started coming in. The big balloons from Tom were huge fun. Kept me going for a while.

The - literally - piece de resistance was Grant and Gino's chicken, corn and leek pie. Just look at that thing! Complete with Ella written on it. Now, in these situations one is always inclined to be gracious and say good things about presents. But that pie was seriously, genuinely amazing. We had this for dinner on Friday and on Saturday. It was that good. I ate half of it. Well, it certainly felt like it.

Little Ella pretty much slept through her first night at home. She stretched from midnight to 7 this morning. Not a bad start, let's see if she can do that again tonight. She's pretty chilled about things, I'm not too worried.

And life goes on. It was a beautiful spring day. As dad would say, it was SKC, 25 degrees with light variable wind. Keep those coming, I say.

Time for me to bid you good night and hand over to the night crew. Catch you soon.

Ella

Ella. Ella Ricarda. It has a good ring, doesn't it?

Mum and Ella have now moved to a hotel room in Coogee. It's quieter and a fair bit more relaxed. Makes for easy cuddly times. Model older brother, me.

She's real nice but boy does she like a chat. Just look at her describing how she was born. A natural entertainer. I could listen to her for 30 seconds*

Stars are coming out. Time for my beauty sleep. Nighty night, sis.

* An eternity, in the physics of F-space

Welcome, sis

Little sis [insert name here] arrived yesterday afternoon at Sydney's Prince of Wales hospital. Talk about a surprise!

Not to put too fine a point on it, my initial reaction, subtly repressed in this picture, was WTF.

Now, to her credit, she did think of buying me a present. A little toy aeroplane that will do nicely thank you. Good girl, that.

I'm happy to report that she's a real cutie and pretty chilled. I reckon she's a keeper.

Welcome to the family, little sis.

Silly me

Creature comforts (sort of)

Got myself a chair, you know, to chill out.

It's harder work than I thought. Seriously.

Well worth it in the end though.