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Daddy photos, and still SO in love!! *sigh*
Thank you for the comments on my last entry! We didn't realise that you should stand stock still when faced with a snake, so have passed this information on to Arthur - thank you! I am surprisingly more scared of snakes than I ever was before (I was never scared of them, just didn't like them), since Arthur's incident. I mean, I am lying in my bed at night and suddenly start thinking about snakes out of nowhere, and literally break out in a sweat and palpitate. Tsk! So annoying! I am praying about it.
We've all been ill AGAIN, hence the gap since the last entry. Matthew got an infected finger! How do we keep getting infections and viruses lately?! Especially Matthew. But God has been faithful - this is the third time he has seen a doctor and they've prescribed him antibiotics, saying he'll need it (he had a mild ear infection last week at the end of that tonsillitusy-conjunctivitisy yeurghiness), and every single time we have laid hands on him when he's asleep and prayed that he will not need to take them (because he spits them out, and it's nigh on impossible, and they'll mess his bowel up), and each time his infection has resolved! His middle finger was a big swollen red thing with really pretty luminescent green pus under the skin all around his fingernail. I have noooo idea how that got started. It was completely sealed in, and we tried but we couldn't get it out. The doctor said he must have antibiotics. The next day (before we'd given him any), we looked at his finger and it was pink and normal size/shape, and clean! He has his fingers in his mouth all the time these days, so my thinking is that he chewed on it, it burst (uggghhh!) and yeah. He has chewed on more disgusting things (believe me) so it is possible. Anyway, yay! No antibiotics again! We've cleaned it with antiseptic cream and it seems fine still.
Matthew ran a temperature at random one night (10 days ago?? I can't remember now), and that's why we took him to the doctor. She said he had a mild infection in his right ear, but that since his fever was so low and he seemed happy and well, and not bothered by it, she'd give us the antibiotics but we should wait and see if he got a worse fever before giving them to him. He didn't get ANY more fever, so we happily disregarded the presecription! :) Then the next night, Arthur was shivery after his bath and looked really strange in his face. He was pale and said he felt funny when he stood up, and he just wanted to go to bed. He didn't even want bedtime milky! He went to sleep really fast, and a couple of hours later when we checked on him, he was burning up. He had a fever of 101.5 (who knows what that is in C, I only speak F!). He was really restless and kept talking gobbledy-gook, and seemed like he felt unwell, but wouldn't sit up to take anything for it. He seemed okayish the next day and we stayed home from church. That night he had a fever again - it started by about 4pm, but at least we got him to take some Calpol at that point, since he seemed to feel really unwell with it and retreated into a corner. He was fine 20 minutes later.
Bennie wanted to come round with Thea on Monday, so we told him about the fevers, and that we'd seen the doctor that day who looked at Arthur and saw nothing wrong with him, and speculated that it must be the end of this weird virus or something. Bennie was happy to bring Thea over anyway (she socialises a LOT and they're past worrying about what she does and doesn't catch!).
So it was lovely to have them round! The boys loved her company, and she loved their toy cars, haha! She took her first step a couple of weeks ago! We'll see her again at Grandoug's traditional birthday bash on July 5th - my parents are coming over from France for that too!! I just can't WAIT! :) I hope we're healthy. We seem to never be at the moment.
Anyway, Thea arrived with a runny nose, and 2 days later 3 of us were streaming and aching and coughing and feeling like absolute rhubarb (me, Arthur, and poor sweet tiny Nathan). I still had a sore throat from the 2/3 week throaty thing, but it was almost gone. It's sore now from the cold. This cold has really kicked our butts! I haven't felt so ill and achy and weird with a cold since I can't remember when. I think Arthur and Nathan have had slight fevers but I didn't check. They just felt a bit too warm to me. Arthur and I are getting a bit better now. Matthew came down with it yesterday and both boys have been dropping on the sofa and napping at weird times of the day (they NEVER nap on the sofas, and Arthur hasn't napped in like a year!). Poor Nathan has been really poorly :( His eyes are red-rimmed and he's so horribly squelchingly congested. I have been up with him such a lot in the night times. He's 100% co-sleeping at the moment - I'm not even bothering with the cot any more. It's so much easier to tend to him in the night when he's poorly, if he's right there next to me, and he sleeps a lot better next to me than in the cot too, and for longer blocks. My poor tiny snufflet! I love him so much!
Soooo, please pray that we won't get ill again this summer! It's 2 months solid for us now, and I'm feeling really fed up with it! It has been hot today and yesterday, but still so cold and un-summery before that, so maybe that's part of it?
Anyway.
Our money has run out! Four maxed out credit cards (that's so terrible!) and in the red in the bank. Not a scrap left to buy food, or shoes for Matthew (he's been wearing Arthur's handed-down sandals even in the rain, poor love!), or anything. I'm so excited to see what God will do! This is the part where our faith in Him is going to be really tested, and that's exciting. I know He will provide. I trust in Him completely. The garden sale is going ahead but there are lots of bits and pieces to tie up before we can get the money. It has gone down to �13,500 from �15,000 though. But that's still fine :)
Neil has a job interview on Wednesday, over the phone for half an hour. It's for a really well-paid job in Hampshire, close enough to be just about commutable, but somewhere we would not mind moving to as well. It happens to be in the same town where my SIL (Rosemary) lives!! Who, by the way, was due yesterday! Excitement! :) That job is the same kind of work he was in before, so stuff he can do. And it's more interesting to him than his previous work, so that would be good. He is also applying to be a train driver! He would need 6-9 months of training on a scarily tiny wage, and then after that he would be on a pretty good wage.
Also he has applied for a job very locally to us, which isn't quite so well paid as we need, but it would be a great opportunity. So, there are more jobs out there all of a sudden, which is encouraging.
I'm kind of sad that I can't buy Matthew any more birthday presents, which I had planned to do. I know he won't care, but I feel sad anyway. He does already have some Matchbox-style cars and a tractor, and a couple of tractor books, and the ELC sand and water table from my parents arrived! My grandparents gave him a cheque, and I am desperate for it to hurry up and clear so I can use it to buy the thing I wanted to use it for (the big roadmap carpet) in time for his birthday (which I'm not sure will happen now). Anyway. He's getting plenty, so I shouldn't feel sad! We are raiding the loose change box for entrance fees to the same farm we went to for Arthur's 2nd birthday, on Saturday!
I can't believe he will be two on Saturday! So nearly there. I really want to work on a little montage/letter type thingy for his birthday, to post here, but I feel sad about that too, because I feel sure I won't get time, and that feels bad. I will try though.
I STILL have to write about my leg and Matthew's haircut, lol! But there isn't time now. Again! ;)
I had a few more (favourite!) photos that I meant to post soon after my last entry, so I'll post them here. They're all of a "Daddy" theme :) Here's a set of three photos, of Matthew and Nathan on the mat on the floor with Daddy - Nathan was interested in Neil's wedding ring (he loves rings!) and Matthew was interested in Nathan (as always!). In the second one, Neil was giving Matthew a gentle back-rub/neck-tickle. Matthew always goes sooooo still and quiet for these, and eventually gets kind of sleepy. He is JUST like Neil in this respect - Arthur isn't like this, but it's something I used to do for Neil all the time when we were dating :)
He's such a lovely Daddy!!! :)
Here are all three of my sweet little boys hanging out with their daddy. Matthew is chewing his hand in this photo, which is a constant sight at the moment. All 4 of his canines are still coming through (about halfway down and changing his smile now, but I love his new "filled out" smile!), and he is having quite a lot of pain and discomfort from the 2-year-old molars at the back (hence the hand-chewing), though I can't feel them anywhere near when I check. Thank goodness they are the LAST ONES!!! Wheee! And then we start all over again with Nathan, who is having teething pain a lot already. Poor teethy boys!
I am in love with this last photo. ALL the men in my life, hehe! :) And look at all the small boys I've had in the space of 3 years?!?! Photos like this always make that kind of reality hit me with a bump, but I love "re-realising" it every time :)
I just adore having my little boys! I mean, they are HARD WORK (especially the older two right now) but I am just pinch-yourself happy right now, with my three sweeties! I make several trips per evening upstairs to lean against door posts and sigh contentedly as I watch them sleep, or kiss sleeping faces and whisper how much I love them. My heart leaps for joy when Nathan wakes, even if he's woken NINE times already that evening and I feel crummy myself, because OH how I love that boy and delight in every opportunity to take his sweet little body into my arms and hold him to me and sway till he is just making little snuffly whimpers instead of crying, and ohhhh just feel his soft little downy head nuzzling jerkily against my neck and shoulder as he tries to settle. Matthew's sweet little profile last night when he was sleeping - oh my heavens. I just NEVER wanted to leave his side and go downstairs again! If I didn't think I would disturb him, I would have spend ages kissing every square mm of his face as he slept. He looked so beautiful to me! I just whispered to him instead about how much I love him, and how 2 years ago exactly, he was due to be born any time, and how much I wanted to meet him, and how I can't believe I have had two years getting to know him and how DELIGHTED I am to be his mummy! *sigh*
Arthur is also a sweet treasure, but he is less of a cute lil baby bean these days and more rude and demanding and DIFFICULT, etc. But my heart melts nonetheless when I stroke his hair and kiss his face when he's sleeping. Sometimes I look at him and he's such a sweet tiny! I forget he has two little brothers and remember that he's only a baby himself, in many ways. If I had an 8-year-old, Arthur would seem such a LITTLE one to me!
I have such a TON to write about things the boys are saying, that I'm trying to jot down in pencil during the day, otherwise it will get lost in the sands of time, and that would be so sad! Matthew is talking much more, and says so many words that I couldn't possibly count them. He says some words that I didn't know he had heard before! And he frequently puts two words together now. He plays imaginary games by himself (just started that), and with his sweet new talking thrown in, it's just ADORABLE to behold! :) He and Arthur play imaginary games together a lot now, which is what I've been waiting for all these years (well, the last two anyway, lol!). I must write about them more next entry, and the things they're saying.
It's getting late now and I need to change the sheets (oh the MILK staining at night when co-sleeping! I'd forgotten!) before I can go to bed. Back soon! :)
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