It seems that the bug that Max and Elliot have/had really is going around as Vic just told me that 15 of the 40 kids at Max’s kindy were off sick yesterday!
As for our boys Max was full of energy this morning and besides having an upset tummy seems to be back to normal. Elliot seems OK and is keeping his food down but is still a bit grizzly.
Who knew that kids could fit so much puke and shit in them!
The last three days have seen both our boys the sickest I’ve ever seen them 🙁 They are slowly on the improve but it’s taking a while.
Monday night Vic and I went up to bed about 10:30 and as we usually do we checked in on the boys. We walked into Elliot’s room to find that he’d vomited a small amount over the side of his cot and onto the floor. I picked him up out of his cot and took him into the bathroom while Vic started to clean up. Almost as soon as I got him into the bathroom he proceeded to bring up almost every scrap of food he’d eaten in the last day or so all over my neck, sweatshirt, jeans and feet in about four massive heaves! The bizarre thing is that I was standing there being puked on (he takes after his Mum – long story 
) and all I was thinking was “I really hope he’s going to be alright”. The next two hours were spent bathing him to get the vomit out his hair, redressing him, redressing him again after he exploded from his nappy through his pyjamas, sleeping bag and my jeans. He puked a few more times and we finally got him settled back into his cot about 12:30 and staggered into bed.
For two hours. Then we went through a similar process with Max vomiting from 02:30 to about 03:30.
Elliot exploded again about 5:00 so then we decided to just get up! Max then started with the explosive diarrhoea….. yay!
Tuesday was spent with Max sleeping most of the time (except when he was sprinting to the toilet – and making it 3 out of four times) and Elliot throwing up anything that entered his mouth almost instantly. The strange thing is that they haven’t had a temperature and besides feeling tired haven’t seemed particularly “ill”
Since then they’ve both eaten small amounts of food, drunk quite a bit of water and slept a lot – except at night of course where the average number of times getting up is about three.
It seems that there is a rotavirus going around at the moment that really wipes them out for a while but hopefully they’re on the improve……
Ahh the joys of parenthood
Morning all and hi from Sydney! Between KL and here I was home for 5 days and it was great to be back. KL was just training so not much to say about it – Sydney has been sales ra-ra stuff and again, not much to say.
Every one at home is well although Elliot seems to be teething again and has turned into a grizzly, dribbly boy. Max just spends his time flipping from gorgeous and funny to stroppy and a pain in the ass – a normal three year old I think!
Thanks to everyone that sent emails, left messages, gave gifts or otherwise had any input into my 40th birthday celebrations. I am now officially “in my forties” and don’t feel any the worse for it
In other news Elliot is hardly crawling now and spends most of his time racing around grabbing anything that his new found vertical stature allows him to reach – yay! It has opened up a whole new level of mischief for him and he’s taking full advantage of it……. Other than that the boys have been well with no major health or behavioral issues.
Here are some pics…
Just a quick note to say that in the last 24 hours Elliot has really started to walk more than a couple of steps! As you know he started to walk while I was in Sydney about 6 weeks ago but since then he’s been pretty slack about ramping it up to any degree – until today really.
Today he’s walked across rooms a couple of times (at least a dozen steps) and you can see him starting to think about whether to walk or crawl. Another thing that makes me think that he’s ready to move on from crawling is the fact that Max has started pushing him over on a number of occasions – obviously feeling threatened that Elliot’s moving into his walking domain…….
Hi there all! I hope you are all well and that someone is still visiting and looking at this update
We’ve all been clogged up with colds for the last couple of weeks but besides that we are OK. This update will go into a couple of the things we’ve been up to and includes a number of pics (hopefully not too much of a download….)
Max has now been going to Kindergarten for over a month and in the last week or so has got over the “this is new and exciting” phase and moved into the “Mum is leaving me and I’m going to freak out” phase! Supposedly this is fairly normal and he seems to be getting a wee bit better already.
One of the things they do is have a kid sized doll at kindy called Lian. Every day someone gets to take her home and then the next day they tell the other children what they got up to (usually in the form of a written report from the parents). It was Max’s turn last week and he had her for two nights.
A while back we bought Max a small blow-up globe which he loved. He could point to New Zealand and say that was where we live, point to Australia and say that was where I go for work sometimes and point to the UK and say that is where Zak lives This was fine until he bit a hole in it and although I tried fixing it things were never going to be the same….. Vic and I decided that as he liked the little one so much we’d buy him a bigger one and see what he thought of it.
You guess.
Elliot is making progress on his walking but still doesn’t take more than a couple of steps at a time. I know we don’t post many pictures of him so here are a couple.
With kindy and playgroup and music and play dates Max leads a hectic life these days. Some days it’s just all a bit much……..
Everyone is well – no major news.
Max and Elliot thought it would be fun to sit in my office chair…..
and drive around the garage…..
And boy has there been news!
• Max started Kindergarten on Monday! The reason that there was no build-up was because Vic only got a call last Thursday saying “we’ve had a couple of people leave the area so would max like an early start?” “Damn right” said Vic (I paraphrase of course ) Due to the number of children in the area he wasn’t supposed to start until July so this is quite a bit early. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 12:45 till 15:15. So far it’s gone really well….. Monday he had a wee accident, as it were, but to be fair it was all new and exciting and I just think he forgot. Vic was there with him for the whole time Monday and Tuesday and Tuesday he was great. Today she left him for an hour in the middle of the session and he hardly noticed she was gone so he should be OK next week.
• Elliot walked! It happened on Friday and he took four to five steps twice according to Vic. Naturally I was in Sydney and of course he hasn’t done it since…… typical!
• Sydney was, well, work really. The one fantastic thing was going sailing on Sydney harbour on Wednesday afternoon. Match racing modern racing boats in front of the Opera House and harbour bridge that have competed in the Volvo ocean race around the world was awesome. They were run by these guys and to give you an idea of how close and hard the racing was we came second in our 30 minute race by 14 seconds. The smallest winning margin in the five three boat races was 8 seconds!