In isolation

Hi Jackypants

Fifth day in hospital and you're getting extremely bored... You were moved into an isolation room because you've got the flu. The good thing about it is that we have a very large room (with bathroom!) to ourselves. The bad thing is that you can't leave your room to go to the Starlight Express Room.

We made a tyrannosaurus yesterday morning and I drew a big one on the whiteboard (following your very specific instructions). Then we played a few games on dad's iPad, watched some TV and just lay around. The Starlight Express Room gave us two boxes of Lego. This morning, Captain Starlight came to your room to show you some magic tricks. He made you a giant magic wand from balloons.

Because you didn't like your lunch yesterday, I ran to Coles to get you a frozen pizza and garlic bread. I tried to sneak into the kitchen of another ward as there is no oven on C3West. Hum, that didn't go according to plan... The oven started smoking so everyone got very worried about smoke alarms going off, which would have triggered a charge-out from the fire brigade and a $1,000 bill to the hospital. I spent 15 minutes in the kitchen - under the hovering eyes of several nurses - trying to cool the oven without making more smoke. So much for sneaking in...

Luckily, there was some action of a different kind in the afternoon: a surprise visit from Stirling and two video calls: first with Ben, Ella, Emily, Molly, William and Sarah, and then with James, Emily and Kate. That was a lot of fun!

Oma is at home with Emily and Maya. I hope the girls aren't giving her a hard time because both of them can be a hand full sometimes. It's a good thing oma has lots of energy and can juggle a million things.We don't know what we'd do without her.

SuperJack's Sidekicks, a group of mums from Como West, have been working very hard on a Facebook and MyCause page for you. They'll go live today, which is super exciting!

You're having a very big sleep at the moment. I bet you don't even know I went out to the shops to get you some dinosaur tattoos!

Big kiss
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