Hey all

Hey Gem - I don't think it's just you, re Melb Airport. It's not a very organised airport, from what I saw when I landed and left! It's complete chaos I reckon.

Hayden - Yeah I bet those cornflakes tasted good.. do you not get cornflakes over there, or is it just the Skippy brand?

We're all good here... Liam had his cross country on Wednesday and came fifth, he did brilliant! I think he was quite proud of that cos he practiced hard for it. Kady's good.. just Kady, talking lots and she's starting to say a few harder words now. She recited the ABC after me a couple weeks ago and that was cool. Still a little ratbag but!

As most of you know, I have my cochlear implant surgery on the 28th June (Ashley's birthday).. which isn't too far away. I've signed the consent form and now it's onto choosing which model is better for me - have two to choose from, plus colours. I'm vain though.. one's weird looking (has cool colours like red though!) but the other looks more like my usual hearing aid but not so great colour choices. I can say this though, I am definitely not choosing beige or ANY brown colour like my old aids. Boring! Might go for the second choice (that looks like my hearing aid) and just choose black - goes with anything eh? The first choice is a Med-El (looks weird and big) and the other is Nucleus Freedom, if you want to Google them to have a nosey. I have my pre-op appointment on the Wednesday, surgery on the Thursday and hopefully home Friday. Have to go back like the next week for a check-up, then back at 3-4 weeks to have it 'switched on' and yeah back and forth for the next few months really. Hopefully it won't hurt too much! Nah, I can handle that.. it's the surgery that's making me nervous. Got to get it over done with anyway so it'll be ok. It'll be at St Georges and I've heard it's nice there so at least that's good haha.

I'm cooking a roast chook for mum and dad here tonight, gonna make a walnut tart to have for pudding too.. yum! Still got a few of those walnuts Rosie gave us so I may as well use them up somehow. Should be nice, hopefully. Kids are off to Pioneer Stadium with Granny today for a swim.

Catch up sometime... Hayden - you don't need to come back when I have my surgery... I think mum was (or has?) gonna tell you, Claire and Ash to all come back here for Kady's birthday, which would be really cool.

Take care!

Dall & kids