The main reason for a rather difficult 2.5 weeks is that the children have been unwell (well, Benjamin in particular). Abigail was the first to get it - tiredness & a temp for a few days and then cold like symptoms - but it didn't seem to affect her that much. Benjamin got it a few days after her, with a temp for 3-4 days (once as high as 102.4F) and then he also started coughing etc once the fever left. He went off foods for about 2 weeks (really, hardly eating a drop of anything - just lots & lots of mummy's milk - which to keep a 28+lb 14mo boy from being hungry means a rather tired mummy! especially when he's not sleeping much - apart from in my arms - so that's less sleep for me too! But whenever my babies are unwell, I'm always thankful to be able to have a ready supply of something wonderfully healthy to keep their tummies full & happy!) Anyway, his coughing was really bad a lot of the time (mostly evenings/nights) and he would frequently gag and end up vomitting. As a result, any tiny bits of food I managed to get in him occasionally were usually lost. :( Anyway, by the end of nearly two weeks he seemed to finally be improving and was starting back on foods etc. - much to my relief, as I was feeling I couldn't possibly cope with many more days like that (esp since I'd now come down with a cold!). However, on Tuesday it seemed he had a turn for the worse and the cough was getting lots worse. We took him to the doctors and now he's on a course of antibiotics. I really didn't want him to have any, but since it seems he developed a chest infection and wasn't getting better, I felt it was necessary. Within 12 hours it seemed he was already improving and he's lots better now, even if his chest is still quite noisy (and nappy rash from the antiBs!). But thankfully no more bad coughing and no vomitting at all since he's been to docs, so big relief! :)
So, apart from looking after children, I haven't done a lot else! On the days that were warm & sunny we spent lots of hours outside. Benjamin is sure to always be happy if he's in the great outdoors. :) Here are some pics, taken randomly since my last post.
Playing in the garden on a particularly warm, sunny & beautiful afternoon
Riding a cow together: best friends! :)
A rather hot looking Benjamin!
A cute smile for mummy, from the opposite end of the tunnel!
At first glance you might think he's upset, but really he's laughing hysterically - they were having so much fun together!
Together again!! Colouring pictures - as you can see, they really do spend a lot of time with each other and always miss the other if one is sleeping!
Like father, like son! Benjamin wants to help with the painting .... think it would be rather messy! lol
Our little helpers - cleaning up the old chipped paint from the porch/path! And it was all their own idea too - guess they thought it looked rather a mess .... if only they had the same idea about the millions of toys, books, clothes & other items they throw all over the house! :)
Abigail showing her new hair bows
Playing with "punch ball" balloons (though the balloons didn't have a very long life!).
Well, must head for bed. Have lots to do tomorrow - will try to get something up here again before tooooo long!
6 comments:
I'm so sorry you had such a hard 2.5 weeks. Wow. I know it can be very trying. It's soo hard when your kids are sick!! Glad they're better now.
Claire & I had the cold (the worst one I've ever had that I know of). I've not been able to taste food for a long time. Terrible!
I was happy to see all the pics. Looks like yall have lotsa toys!! Very fun looking!
Hope you get some things done (I know what it's like to have things piling up). Maybe yall should get out and do something, go somewhere, buy something! :D That's what I like to do when I've had to stay indoors for awhile. :)
Much love,
Steph
xox
Looks like the children really enjoy the garden; it's great they can get outside to play.
Right now we go outside to get wet :-)
Love
H
Hi Sis!
You definitely have the cutest children in the whole world. :D
Love,
Leah
Och sorry you've had such a rough time of it lately what with one thing and another. Praise God for Mummy milk. Och hugs and prayers.
Hope everything is now back to normal.
Blessings.
Jo
What's happened rach? You okay hun. No blog. :(
Jo
Thanks for checking on me, Jo! :) Yep, I'm OK!
We decided to take a last minute holiday as a break after we were all feeling rundown after illnesses, etc. So we went off to Yorkshire for a week. Had a nice holiday tho had car trouble which took up nearly 2 days of the week (resulting in us having to hire a car for the rest of the holiday & our car being towed back home to Scotland!) and then we've all caught various *new* bugs! :( Benjamin is full of a cold, I've got a slight cold (mainly just *very* tired!), Abigail has a stomach virus (vomitting several times, which when it happens at 2am in her bed is a very big mess!!!), and added to all that, Peter has been even worse than everyone else! He started feeling unwell at the weekend, tho managed to drive all the way home on Monday. He's been in bed pretty much ever since - fever, chills, sweating, headaches, and general awful feeling! He seemed to be getting even worse this morning and then fainted on me!! Rather scary! So I took him to the doctors this morning and now he's got some antibiotics (probably has some sort of urinary infection). And I think maybe they're already helping, as he's actually looking alive this evening and is out of bed!! :) So that's good news. Now I just hope we don't get any vomitting from Abigail tonight! :) Both children are in bed, so the first few minutes of peace & quiet for me *all* day! :)
Thanks for all the other comments too....I will try to get a blog post up soon, with pics from our holiday!
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