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More from Fiji ...

Natadola Beach

This photo reminds me of the wonderful time we had in Fiji. The smiles on the faces of our son and his friends in the warm Pacific Ocean ... wow! The joy, the laughter and the simple life!

Precious Moments

Our son's yaca with his beautiful Mum. This was a fun photo I took when I returned to Lautoka to visit in 2006.

Mother and Child
I love the look on Andrew's face ... he's adorable!

Finally ...

Today around six ton of soil (land fill) was put on our land, and compacted to form the base for the foundations for our house. It was very exciting!

The fill is much higher than we expected and it will mean our new house is higher than any other's in the area. Also looking at the shape of the compacted soil made us realise how big our new house will be ... much bigger than I realised. It's a long house - ranch style.

Now I can't wait for the the next stages ... founds go down, frames goes up, roof goes on ...

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More from Fiji ...

Wiggly Worm
This is a gorgous photo of our son's yaca.


Asena Qoro
When I return to Fiji, I always visit our housegirl Asena. We still enjoy going for walks together and sharing the times when Asena worked for us and cared us and our beautiful dog Milo.

Gorgous Boy
Clinton (our son's best friend) and his nephew, who is also our son's yaca.

Ken's Grog
This is part of a two page display. In Fiji I always enjoyed drinking yaqona (kava or grog) and the gatherings that went with these. In this display, I'm drinking grog with Clinton's father and soon to be father-in-law.

Blue Lagoon Cruise
Our son's best friend working as crew on a Blue Lagoon Ship. Blue Lagoon operate 3 day and 7 day cruises around the Yasawa Islands to the west of Viti Levu, the main island of Fiji. We went on a couple of three day cruises, and then helped Clinton get an interview with Blue Lagoon. This photo was taken during a seven day cruise ... and shows two very proud parents ... their Fijian son has an amazing gift and works well with overseas and local guests on the boat.

Two and a half years - 3 February 2008

Front

Left Side and Right Side

Upper Arch and Lower Arch

Progress is harder to see and the gap where my impacted canine is, continues to close ... but so slowly. I'm really tired of this dragging out so long. I'd hoped my treatment would be over around the two year mark, but I suspect it might be more like three years.

Comparing the front view ... at two years and now, I can see that my open bite has closed by about halfway. I never realised this ... so taking photos is a great way to discover change!

I'm very grateful that my jaw pain is now rare. When I do get the pain, it's so much milder, which is truly wonderful.

Now I've got to be patient!

Saturday ... Milo and a snake ...

My day started off horribly ... really nasty! I was hanging out some washing and my gorgeous little dog, Milo, was sniffing round in a bark garden. I heard a noise and went to check it out, as I was concerned she had one of our blue tongue lizards, or a lace dragon cornered. But when I looked, I saw a small head, that I knew was not a lizard. The next minute seemed like an eternity. A small brown snake slide between her legs and under some sleepers ... I freaked!

Milo was standing very still and I picked her up and she lay quite still in my arms. I was thinking she'd been bitten, as although she loves cuddles, she's not one to lie still like that. I had a hand on her heart as I tried to stop feeling like panic and do something real.

Next my neighbour rushed out to see me. She was concerned, as she said all the colour had drained from my face and I looked frozen to the spot nursing my little dog. She talked to me for a few minutes and I then put Milo on the ground. She tried to walk, but was unsteady ... and I was about to panic again, when she appeared to come right and bound with energy.

I continued to feel sick for the next few hours, and have been watching Milo closely all day. Fortunately she appears fine!

This is the second time I've lived in Oz, but the first time I've seen a snake outside of a reptile park ... and that includes working in Queensland's Outback for over a year.

Bring on Sunday ... it can only get better!

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Bath Time

Our son's best friend in Fiji, named his first nephew after our son. In Fijian, this makes Andrew Ho our son's Yaca (pronounced - ya tha), which means our son's name sake. It's a great honour, and I spent a wonderful 2+ weeks with Andrew, his Mum, Grandparents and other family members when I returned to Lautoka for a holiday in 2006.

Yaca

Photos of Andrew ... with his Aunty Stephanie and his Grandmother Rachel.


Girl's Night In - 2006

This was of 2006's scrapping night to raise money for breast cancer ... we had a great time making money for a great cause! I'm yet to scrap the photo's for 2007.

Gaps

The lower extraction gap ... a first molar ... appears to be almost totally closed. Even though it's been slow ... it's gone a load better than the closing of the gap over my upper right impacted canine. I can see a definite improvement ... but I'm nearly at 30 months and that gap is really starting to p1$s me off!

Lower left gap – extracted first molar

January 2008


July 2007


August 2005




Upper right gap – over impacted canine

January 2008


August 2005