Alex has had one virus after another in the last 6 months or so, ranging from just annoying, to causing his first (and hopefully only) febrile convulsion (trip to the hospital last week at 2am). His ears have only seemed to have bothered him occasionally, with the GP saying one or the other may be a bit red at times, and he's only been on ( Read more... )

Slightly weird thing happened yesterday ( Read more... )

Alex cracks me up. Today when I was in the sitting room with Clara, I commented to her that Alex had been quiet in another room for a while, so he was probably up to mischief. He came wandering in, he had a tissue and was lifting up his top and kind of wiping his tummy. We followed him back to Clara's bedroom, and discovered him sitting on her ( Read more... )

Alex's words, at 1 yr 5.5 months:
Mum, cat, dog, duck, door, no, nana (banana), Clara, cuddle, Grandma, Grandad, water, ni-ni (night night)
Most of the words are very unclear, you often have to see where he's pointing to work out what he's trying to say! It also means it can take a while for me to realise he's making the same sounds each time in ( Read more... )

From an email to someone I knew back at school ( Read more... )

Hmm. How come my LJ only lets me do a 'previous 10' once? even if I edit the url to skip 20, it's all blank, as though the universe was only created on May 11th and our memories of earlier have been implanted...

Had a great weekend, particularly considering Clara's recent meltdowns. She had one on Sat morning, but nothing major since then, just some less intense tantrums, and some times where she's needed very firm handling. She's got a bit of a cold, which never helps ( Read more... )

Alex is getting very definite about what he wants. Tonight when he was (finally) ready to lie down and go to sleep, he patted his bottom to show me what he wanted done. Then when I stopped he grabbed my hand and did it for me ( Read more... )

After asking about why younger kids need more sleep and being told that it's because they're growing so fast, their body needs more rest ( Read more... )

Really should write to LJ more often ( Read more... )