Mothers Day

What a busy day!

I have had a lovely day and am absolutely shattered now but as promised am updating my blog before I head off to bed.

Abigail started my mothers day with a nice wake up call at 6.30am which Ed slept through she chatted away to herself untill 6.50am but had enough and wanted to get up by then so I went and got her and brought her into our bed thinking I would get a card or something but Ed had forgotten to write it! We had a lovely family cuddle and I had lots of mothers day kisses.

While I was in the shower Ed wrapped my present and helped Abigail write my card. I got the Joss Stone album a best mummy certificate and a gorgeous card.

Ed went off to work and Abigail and I put our scruffy clothes on ready for the boot fair we collected Aunty Lillie and drove up there only to find it wasn't on ( even though the big sign said boot fair here EVERY sunday it obviously means every sunday except mothering sunday!!) So we decided since we were up and out we had to do something to went to Mac Donnalds for breakfast :)

Abigail had her nap and I got changed and did my hair and got ready to go out and then got her changed and off we went to meet daddy at church.

I was really looking forward to my lunch after church but didn't realise Ed hadn't booked anywhere!!!!! So after 90 mins of driving round you can imagine I was fed up and so was Abigail who was now starving and the pot of saltanas and a banana which mummy had was no longer sufficiant! At 3pm we finally got our lunch - it was very nice.

We came home briefly and then went to Hilary's (ed's mum) his grandma and uncle were also there. We had a nice restful afternoon and Abigail enjoyed wearing the hat Aunty Lillie wore out last night for St Patricks day (see pic)

I popped to my mum this evening but she had popped out to Grandmas so unfortunately missed her but will see her in the morning before Abigail's swimming lesson.

I'm so tired now i'm off to bed but i've had a lovely mothers day and hope everyone has.

I also want to send huge Birthday wishes to my special friend Emily (fellow brompton patient) who has recently had a double lung transplant and is home - she is such a corageous brave woman read her blog at www.pinkandsmiley.blogspot.com

Visiting Barbara 14/3/07

On Wednesday I took Mum, Abigail, Annemarie(my cousin) and her son Maceo to see My aunty Barbara who sadly at 54 has early onset Altzeimers and doesn't know who any of us are anymore and is in a home which is very sad and hard to see so we all went together to see her and went out for lunch first.
It was a really nice day, Maceo is 8 months now and is taller and weighs more than Abigail - he is dark as she is fair and has the most gorgeous big brown eyes. He is a real cutie :)
Here are a few pictures of our day
Annemarie and Maceo-
My mum and Abigail eating a chocolate biscuit-

My mum and Barbara-

One of the nurses playing with Maceo-

Abigail and Maceo with some of the other patients and my mum in the background-

Annemarie and Maceo-

One of the nurses holding Abigail and Barbara giving her a kiss-

Annemarie, Maceo and Barbara-

A lovely week

Wow it's been a week again already since I have updated. Where does the week go! Abigail and I have takeen advantage of the lovely weather and been out in it lots!

Saturday - Ed and I took Abigail to the park, she enjoyed climbing and loved the slide although didn't get the hang of having to lift her feet up to be able to slide now she wears shoes. But she didn't like the swing at all - see below she used to love the swings she is funny!

On Friday we went out to lunch as tomorrow (sunday 18th) is Beccys birthday (Abigails friend Eleanors mum) so we were ladies who lunch. It was lovely we went to the harvester and had a very big table and 4 highchairs and 4 pushchairs take up alot of room!!

Shelley and Darcey -

Gemma and Ashton-

Left to right Ashton, Abigail and Darcey-

Beccy (birthday girl) and Eleanor -

Today we took Abigail to Hylands parkfor some space and freedom where she could walk on her own without holding hands or being on her reigns outside and without the worry that she could run into a road or a car. She loved it!! Here are a couple of pics of my big girl walking :)

I've been feeling alot better this week and am off antibiotics now and reducing my steroids. I took Abigail to her swimming lesson on Monday the first time in weeks which she loved. Ed had 2 days off this week with a cold/virus thing so stayed well clear of him but unfortunately Abigail has caught a bit of his cold but touch wood so far apart from a cough and being snuffly hasn't been unwell as such.

My hayfever has kicked in with the lovely weather and had a slow release long acting steroid injection on thursday for this in combination with my antihistmines, eye drops and nose spray hopefully should be able to function this year when it is in full swing. Nose has been dripping all week though!

We went to see my aunt who is in a home with early onset altzeimers on wednesday took mum and my cousin (my aunts daughter) and her son - was a lovely day will update a separate blog with the pictures of that as I think there are alot of pics already in this one.

I'm looking forward to mothers day tomorrow and have a lovely day planned i'll update again tomorrow as a new day :)

Abigails idea of what a potty should be used for -

Friday 09-03-2007

Today Beccy and I took Eleanor and Abigail to the Wacky Warehouse. The couple of times i've been before Abigail has played for a bit but then got a bit bored but today she loved it!! They played for 50 mins!! As you can see by the photos they had a great time and really played together as well!

This afternoon hasn't been so sucessful though Abigail was laying on the middle of the floor and just not herself so I took her temperature and it was 38.8 so gave her some calpol she perked up a bit but not herself. 2 1/2 hours later it was 39.6 so gave her nurofen and that brought it down to 38.8 by bedtime so have given her another lot of calpol and put her to bed. She isn't right in herself just laying around but ate her dinner and is drinking so i'm not overly worried, will see how she goes.

It might be a side effect of the measles jab she had last week as there was a 10% chance of a temperature and 4% of a rash.

Lets just hope its nothing too serious - its scary how quick they can get ill at this age! Within hours from the Wacky she was just lethargic laying on the floor not moving! With a temperature 39.6!

Had a slight misshap with Abigails shoes last night! They were getting grubby so as the instructions said could be washed on a 40 degree was without conditioner I put them on the 30 degree hand wash 29 min cycle without any detergent or conditions and they seemed to come out ok but now they are dry the colour has faded

and the colour ran onto her socks today! The real mishap though is I wanted them dry for today so put them on the storage heater to dry over night - but it got a bit too hot for them and have melted the rubber!

What a nightmare - so now although I will still right to startrite and complain about the colour running and fading I doubt they will do anything as they have 2 nice big melt marks in them!! What am I like!!!

Thursday 8-3-07

Had a lovely day today the 4 generations went out for the day :) My grandmother, my mum, myself and Abigail went to Bluewater to do some shopping :)

I had a dr appt in the morning and everything went well I have reduced my steroids to 40mg (8 a day) now until I next see them which is nice. Had a week on 50mg so body shouldn't notice the difference!! Will see me next week which is nice was seeing him daily if not twice daily last week. Abigail trots into his room and straight to the toy box now and plonks herself down as if to say back here again i'll be here a while!

Bluewater was good although very tiring, I brought Abigail her summer coat lime green in next its gorgeous i'll add a pic soon thought I had one!! Some pink and white dungarees from John Lewis and the sicssor sisters album for me :)
Mum drove home and I slept the whole way. Felt pretty rough in the eve once Abigail was in bed hence the late update!!

The picture is of Abigail having her lunch in John Lewis waving to send a photo on my phone to daddy.

Wednesday- Clinic -7-3-07

Abigail got on brilliantly at clinic today. She weighed 9.86kg which is 21lb 11oz!! What a little piggy!!
She was not impressed with the weighing scales took alot of bribing from myself Aunty Lillie and the healthvisitor to get Abigail to stay on them!

Ed had parents evening this evening so Emma kindly came over with a bottle of wine and once Abigail was in bed kept me company ordering a pizza a stuffed crust super supreme - wow yummy!!!
SOooooooo loaded with calories :)
Abigail was a little darling and went down like and angel not hearing a peep out of her!!

Had a lovely evening thanks Emma

xxxxx

06/03/2007

Hey all back again :)

Did you miss me?? ;)

Well i'm home and i'm feeling alot better, still on Antibiotics and steroids although slowly starting to reduce steroids now (down to 50mg)

Abigail had her speech therapy assesment today and passed with flying colours saying over 20 words in the first 15 mins of the lady being here! So she is way above average and they are happy with her :) this referal was resulting from Abigail's poor suck when she was born (takes a long time the NHS) We have contact details if we need to get back in touch by open referal in the future up until she goes to school when she will be reasessed anyway.

Mum then took us to Sainsburys way hay an outing food shopping - holds back the excitement :)

Had a nice restful afternoon while Abigail napped and then Lillie came round and Ed arrived home within minutes of her getting here as the after school meeting was cancelled :)

I'm going to venture taking Abigail to Mother and Baby group tomorrow morning if I feel well enough as I can park just outside and so is no walking involved. Karen will be here tomorrow too to do the things I need help with changing the bed linen is the biggest help!

Going to take Abigail to clinic in the afternoon and get her weighed as we haven't been in over a month!!! So i'll update again tomorrow and let you know how much my fatty weighs :)

Hope everyone is well

Lots of love

Still here

Well i'm still here, very tired and feeling sorry for myself!!
Abigail had the first of her MMR injections today we are having them done separately because of the *concern* about the triple vaccine jab.
The staff were lovely and very professional, Ed held Abigail and she didn't even flinch when they gave her the jab until about 10 seconds after when she cried her eyes out! Little chicken.
She has gone to bed fine is coughing alot tonight though so I hope she isn't coming down with anything!!