Baby Boom and Beachside wanderings
Categories : Family, Obstetrics, Personal, Video |
Monday mornings are supposed to be when I return to work after a refreshing weekend with the family. Well I can’t say that I feel particularly refreshed right about now. The weekend was my monthly on-call for obstetrics and it turned out to be one of the busiest I’ve had since starting work down here. I had 9 babies born over the weekend, all except one I think were born at night, meaning I averaged less than 4 hours sleep the last 3 nights. Still there are some plusses - none of the births were very stressful or complicated - only one required a vacuum extraction but it wasn’t super emergent. The other big plus is that the more babies that are born the more I get paid, which might help a little towards addressing my huge tax debt and paying for our trip later this year.
Since the babies were all born at night, it meant I had plenty of time to spend with the family during the days (no time for sleep though) Saturday was looking like a warmish one and after we got back from a kid’s birthday party the boys asked to go to the beach down the road from our house. Since I wasn’t busy and this might be one of the last summery days I thought why not. Unfortunately it ended up raining but not before the boys had a good dig and splash, as you can see in the clip below. This is also Owen’s debut on commentary duties, which mixed results (hard to understand him at times). Hopefully it’s a little more entertaining than it would be with just music alone… At the end of the video, I also pan around and label some of the places along Warnbro Sound…
Sunday afternoon we again went out for a walk, and Owen got to ride his new bike. This time we explored some of the paths through the sand dunes near our place - we’ve been there for over a year and have never made it to these paths before (pretty slack hey) but it was a really great place to walk. Aside from marvelling at some of the massive homes nestled amongst the dunes (who knew there were such fancy houses a 4 minute walk from our place?) we also discovered a great lookout on the top of one of the highest dunes, giving panoramic views of Warnbro Sound, Port Kennedy, and Rockingham. I took a quick video of it on the digital camera and added some of the photos from the weekend (mainly because I was enjoying the music clip I put with it so much and wanted to make it last a bit longer) Anyway enjoy.
