News and Views
I’ve been a bit worried over the last few days, because Daniel has been getting sick again. He’s got a runny nose and a bad cough. We took him to the GP this morning and he said we should go back to the Women’s and Children’s Hospital to get him checked out. So this morning (after only 3 hours sleep last night) I took Daniel and Lachlan into the emergency department. Because I didn’t know how long I’d be there, I packed a heap of stuff, including bottles, formula, food, toys and books as well as the usual bundle of nappies. The trip was quite difficult because Lachlan was extremely tired and very emotional. He was quite hard to manage – especially when Daniel was the focus of everybody’s attention. Anyway, to cut a long story short, we were sent home after a thorough examination as Daniel wasn’t too bad. He gave the game away by smiling and laughing through the exam and gobbling a big morning tea!
Oh – I’m not sure I mentioned before, but we’ve decided to get a nanny instead of going through childcare. We firmly believe that if we use childcare we’re going to be spending most of this winter in the emergency department. We know we can’t protect them forever, but we’re going to try to protect them until they’re big enough to be able to cope with it better.
In other news, we’re still struggling to get either Dan or Lachie to eat lumpy foods. I’m consulting with a nurse about it on Monday, but I’m feeling quite depressed about it. Babies have all these milestones to mark their development and it seems to me that we keep on getting further and further behind. And the further behind we get, the harder it is to catch up. I can’t believe the boys are now 11 months old. It seems like yesterday that it was Christmas and everything was going so smoothly. I was really looking forward to this next stage of their development, but it’s just been such a struggle. Dan has vomited up the entire contents of his stomach twice in the last 24 hours, but on a positive note, he ate some banana and toast this evening.
Anyway, I’m too tired to make much sense at the moment, but I wanted to post some more images of the boys. Here they are…
One of the nicest times of day is before bedtime when we read the boys some stories. They have some definite favourites and they enjoy it so much. The last couple of days they’ve started turning the pages for us and actually fight each other to turn the page first. Here’s a lovely little video of a story.
