kt got her award

Managed to get photos of kt getting her "next 100 magic words" award.

We were worried that they may have called her out last Friday on parade while she was at home sick ... but luckily they had too many other things to do since it was also an Anzac day parade.

I got a few photos ... and Kt was very proud of herself!

When I got home I weeded the front corner rock garden and did some watering using our fairly full tank.

I still have the weeding of the circular potted garden and the main garden to tackle ... which I may try and attempt during the long weekend ... if I don't end up sleeping in until all hours of the day.

Feeling a bit better today although not completely recovered.

Will attempt to finish packing my hospital bag since it is something I keep putting off doing.

I also went to the library a few days ago and got lots of interesting books out and am trying to read as much as I possibly can about birth to get prepared.

I have a cold

I am sick with a cold. I have been fighting it for about a week and I have finally succumbed.

Kt is at school today and uni is back at work.

I have to get rid of it asap as I do not want to be going into labour and birth sick.

I am trying to rest and take it easy but there are also things I want to still get done.

I spent about 30 minutes in the garden weeding this morning and was pleasantly surprised to find that it only took that long to weed the rest of the garden outside the front fence. I had allowed myself up to 3 hours (which would equate to 1 hour a day) to complete this task.

I have the main garden still to do and also the side garden just inside the front fence ... but these will definitely take a lot longer.

I did some more washing and I am trying to keep on top of washing and ironing so there is not a big pile for me to come home to.

I washed the sheets and made the bed.

Finally managed to get some video of the baby moving in my belly.

I am going to keep the camera battery charged and ready to go for the birth and beyond.

I have stacks of clothes and things ready to put into my hospital bag but will have to condense the items I take so they will fit.

I plan to fill the bag with about 2 days worth of stuff and then have 2 more days worth of stuff sitting in a laundry basket in the baby's room ready to be brought to me by uni if I need it.

I have packed a bag for kt so that if she needs to sleepover at grandma pats house she has a days worth of stuff ... if there is room I may add another day's worth of stuff just to be on the safe side.

I want to give the house a vacuum too but don't really feel up to it today.

success

Baby capsule fitted...can't describe how it feels when I look in my car and see it in there.

New pants for kt purchased, larger maternity bras for me and some tops that will make it easy for me to breastfeed without being too exposed.

These are currently in the wash ready to hang out when I finish this post.

I leaked a drop or two of breastmilk last night.

The same thing happened about a week ago ... so milk production has begun ...

Kt went to school today and hopefully it all goes well.

how times change

finding it funny how annoyed and depressed all this rain is making me!

Last year I was postively beaming every time a rain drop fell ... perhaps I should change the title of my blog to earth fire and why won't this rainwater stop falling down and preventing me from washing my clothes.

LOL!!!!

I am in the process of packing my hospital bag today.

Kt is improving steadily and I am hoping she will be able to go to school on tuesday. Then on wednesday she will have a field trip to a farm.

I will be getting a baby capsule fitted by the ambulance service on tuesday... and have a few last minute things to try and buy.

Just realized that most of kt's long pants (for winter) are way too small and she will need some more.

I buy them too big and she gets several years use out of them. Although the waists still fit ok (she has a tiny waist) more and more of her ankles are exposed.

I also need some more maternity bras.

On Wednesday I will have my antenatal appointment at the hospital.

On thursday and friday uni will be back at work and I will spend a few quiet days on my own trying to relax.

Busy times - this post has now been completed so if you haven't read the whole thing ... read it again

Yesterday was a wild and busy day.

Kt was still home sick from school.

I took her out to the playground first thing in the morning to get her out in the fresh air. She has been cooped up inside for most of the week and was starting to climb everything in sight.

After an hour in the playground she was worn out and I let her watch some tv while I headed off to get my 36 week blood test done and our weekly shopping.

The shops will be closed Sun and Mon for Anzac day so I wanted to get it out of the way early.

On my return home I unpacked the shopping and uni told me we had been infected by a virus on the computer.

It was called security tool and it pretends to be one of your own protective programs that has found a threat to your computer and asks you if you want to remove the problem program. When you click on remove program it actually loads itself onto your computer and offers to take itself off your computer if you pay a fee to get it removed.

Uni looked on the net to see if he could get another program to remove it, but all the ones he found also wanted you to pay a fee.

I tried running an avast scan ... which said everything was running normally.

Then while I was running windows defenders scans avast recognized a trojan and I quaranteened it. Windows defender found something as well ... called downloader and I followed its prompts and removed it.

There was some mention that windows live care or microsoft security essentials were other programs that could be used to remove spyware and malware.

I thought the problem was solved, but security tool remained on uni's screen.

I turned the computer on and off and it was still there.

I drove uni to adams house for the night, with poor kt coughing and spluttering all the way.

When we got back I started cooking dinner and we did showers and eating and bedtime.

I did some research on my laptop and discovered that windows live care no longer existed but microsoft security essentials could be used instead and it seemed to be familiar with security tool.

to be continued... time for me to read a bedtime story now ....

Ok well the next day I went back to the computer and logged on as uni and security tool was doing pop ups and generally being uncooperative.

I tried to download microsoft security essentials but it would not load ... seems security tool was blocking it.

I logged out of uni's screen and logged in again as kt ... and was thrilled to see that security tool was no where to be seen on her screen ... so I attempted to access and download microsoft security essentials and it worked.

When I ran a full scan using microsoft security essentials it located security tool in several locations including the recycle bin (where both uni and I had tried to put it) and the exact location on the computer where it was (something like C/program data/93xxxxxxxxxx). It also successfully removed it which was wonderful!!!

It avoided detection on quick scans but thorough scans worked.

Thank you to everyone for suggestions of other places to look for programs to remove malware ... I will keep the details for future reference but I think our problem is solved.

I intend to keep microsoft security essentials as my antivirus/anti spyware/anti malware program. So far there have not been conflicts with avast ... but if there are I will uninstall avast. Microsoft security essentials switches off windows defender as it does its job for it and supercedes it.