The French grand-parents are here!!

Yes my mum and dad are in Scotland!! They arrived on the 12th and are leaving on the 26th. 2 full weeks in Scotland to be able to spend lots of time with their new grandson. Because Skype is just not good enough.

When they came in May (when Logan was between 4 and 7 weeks old) they bought a brand new 3-bedroom caravan at Craig Tara, which is just baout 15 minutes away from our house. Although I thought their decision had been hasty and maybe they should just have continued renting caravans or cottages whenever they wanted to come here, it's turned out to be a great decision. It saves me lots of time trying to find them somewhere to stay, and they are HOME as opposed to in someone else's place. Our house is not big enough now that we have Logan in the spare room - it has of course become Logan's room now.

Having them here these 2 weeks is wonderful for Logan (and it saves us a lot of money in nursery fees!!) as he's really at the age when he learns tons and takes everything in. He was starting to recognise them on Skype, so I think it's going to be even better now to communicate through the computer as he'll really know them "in the flesh".

We went swimming twice and he loved it even more than usual as we all played splish splash, he laughed so much! 

He'll have had so much attention that I am really starting to worry about the return to nursery... 

This week-end we are going to the Edinburgh Christmas Markets before my parents fly back to France, really looking forward to it and to Logan's reactions to all the lights and glitter!

 Shhhhh I am watching TV!!

Winter time!!

Yes at last it seems that Logan's body clock is matching everyone else's! 2 mornings in a row he's now had to be woken up at 7.30 am, instead of waking up by himself at 6.30 am (which was 7.30 am old time). It took 8 days!!! To be fair on him, it was a combination of not being well, teething and the time change that made him wake up around 5 am unable to breathe, and then 6.30 am starving. He had terrible D... for about 5 days and nursery wouldn't take him, which is fair enough as you wouldn't want that spread to other kids. But what a nightmare to find alternative arrangements. His dad and I took alternate half days off, and his grandparents took him an extra day too so we managed.

Unfortunately that meant 2 weeks without any swimming, what a shame! And the pool closes in 2 weeks' time as well so hopefully he'll be able to go loads of times in the next few days. His French grandparents arrive on Saturday for 2 weeks and I know they'll take him to the pool just about every day!

Logan still only has one tooth, it's quite funny! But his progress includes being able to move the baby walker on the carpet (he could only just jump in it before, he's only been able to make it move for about 3 days), sit for a decent amount of time without falling over (he did bump his wee head a few times poor boy), rolling over to reach for toys quite far away and rolling back on his back to play with them. He changes very quickly now it's great fun!

Winter Time

Winter Time was never a problem for me. I remember when I was in France, twice year, every year, there would be a special report on how the time change would affect the COWS in FARMS in the country, due to the fact that they are milked at the same time everyday. It used to really annoy me - get on with it and all that.

Well now that I have Logan, I sort of understand where they're coming from!

My poor boy does not understand. First of all he was pretty unwell at the week-end, with some fever, really bad cough, blocked nose and hardly any appetite. The appetite bit was the most worrying for me, as everything esle can (now that he's old enough) be treated with medecine. So becuase of that the time change on Sunday didn't affect him very much. He'd had such a bad night that after a bottle of milk he fell back asleep until 9.45 am old time. So did I!! First long lie since he was born.

But now that he's feeling better, he wakes up around 6 am instead of 7 am, and starts screaming with hunger at 6.30 am, which used to be 7.30 am! So I'm trying to push back his first bottle so that it gets back to 7.30 by the end of the week. What I don't understand is that we do put him to bed around 7.30 pm or later, which in old time was 8.30 pm, an hour later than usual. His wee tummy just can't get used to it.

On another subject it was Halloween yesterday and the photographer that I've used before was doing a special event on Saturday. So I dressed him in his best skeleton suit (not that he's got several!) and off we went. It was really busy with little witches, pumpkins and devils, and older children dressed up as cowboys and firefighters. We got a really cool picture!

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It's now 2 days after I started writing this post and Logan is still sick, the poor wee soul. It's all about the D word and how do you keep a baby hydrated properly??? It's not easy! At least he's eating again, so I can try and cram all the good food into him, such as apple and banana and yogurt and carrots. No fibre and as little milk as possible (given he's still a baby and needs lots of it) for the next few days!