FIT

Oops it's been a long time since the last post. Well that's not so bad as quite a few things happened so I have stuff to talk about!

My wee boy, a week from being 10 months old, cannot crawl. But he is absolutely desperate to walk. He's been grabbing our hands to pull himself up and walk around the house since we're back from France. He can easily pull himself up from the floor using furniture now. The first time this took place was in the bath 2 weeks ago. Scary. He is standing constantly. Sometimes when he reaches an area of interest he will sit down for 2 or 3 minutes to inspect something, and then wants to get back up to explore further.

So I decided that the time of £5 pairs of plastic floppy shoes out of Tesco's was finished, and that he needed a proper pair of shoes that will hold his feet proper and FIT well in order to learn to walk without getting sore feet/ankles and bowed legs.

We went to Clarks of course - where else!! They had a sale on - dancer! Logan loved the experience. He was walking about somewhere he'd never been before, with lots of things to look at, touch, go to etc... And mirrors!! There were 2 little boys in front of us so we had to wait a little. I spotted a really nice pair for him in size 3 (I'd no idea what size he was) which seemed to be the smallest. That was only £5, like Tesco's!! Our turn came, and guess what, he's only a size 2.5! Well he was only 9.5 months old last week. Tiny feet, tiny shoes that weren't in the sale... But it doesn't matter, they FIT and that the main thing. So he's wearing them all the time now and at last his feet go nice and flat on the ground and he's making great progress. And I bought the size 3 at £5 for next month - might as well when they're so cheap!

While Logan's getting nice FITting shoes, I'm getting FIT again! I was running 8K twice a week before I fell pregnant with Logan. I'd only been doing it for a year or so, and I ran a couple of races up in Glasgow. Great feeling. I ran once, pathetically, back in June last year but it was somehow too early. 2012 came and with it new resolutions, so my work got a team together to run for Sport Relief on 25th March. It's 6 miles so I need to build up stamina to last!! I can only run once a week, at the week-end when Logan is having a nap. 3 times so far, and the last time was the best as I felt I could have run longer (I did about 5K - half an hour). I realised that I'd been thinking all along about this blog entry, so my mind was not about running and wanting to stop. Definitely need to sort out my iPod as that will keep me going too! Horrible feeling on Sunday when a boy about 10-12 years old over-ran me (does that exist? ran past me much faster). But he only lasted about 5 minutes. I had to keep running until I got home!

We had another Mummies and Children meeting on Saturday and it was the firt time really when the children actually played together. It was brilliant. Up until the mummies sat down for their lunch and they all started to get grumpy and tired and demanding... Ah well...

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Freaky fever

That's it we're back! Well we were back on Saturday night (Hogmanay) but today is the first chance I have of posting something. I have to say that Logan was FANTASTIC on the plane, both ways.

We were lucky enough that the planes weren't full so we had 3 seats for the 3 of us, instead of the 2 that we were allowed as Logan is only due a "lap" space since he is under 2 years old. He still pays £20 for the privilege of sitting on Mummy or Daddy's knees. But then again that was Easyjet, I'm sure Ryanair would have charged even more.

On the way out we travelled at lunchtime so Logan was awake all the way through. We had to keep him entertained for 2 hours, which in a confined space was not an easy task. He had lunch, played, read with his Daddy, walked up and down the central aisle, smiled and gooed at the people sitting behind us, in short was sensational.

The first 4 days in France were brilliant. Christmas eve was fantastic, as it always is at my Mum and Dad's. My sister and her family was there too, so Logan got to meet his French cousins for the first time! Needless to say all the kids (and even the adults) got spoilt rotten. His cousins then stayed for a few days and were excellent at playing with Logan. The best fun was pushing Logan in his baby walker around the house!

Then my little boy fell sick. It was really just a cold, but a full blown one with blocked nose, sore throat, cough and high fever. One evening we took his temperature and it showed 40.9!! That's HUGE! So we took him straight to the Doctor's, but apart from paracetamol and nose drops (not sure if you can find nose drops for babies in the UK, but in France there are 2 types: prorhinel which have some sort of medicine in it, and physiomer which is saline solution. They were brilliant to use, especially at night, to help him breathe. However they are quite traumatising to put in baby's nose but there isn't really any other way...). Baby sick means mummy and daddy didn't get to sleep very much for the next 3 days, and then it was time to get back home.

And by the way, if a thermometer is designed for mouth or underarm, don't use it the other way as the temperature will be wrong by 2C extra! So 40.9 was in fact 38.9! Still high, but much less worrying...

The doctor had said to watch out as colds often turn into ear infections in babies, and guess what on the way from my paren'ts house to the airport, Logan kept crying and touching his left ear. So we called first aid as soon as we got there to make sure we could still fly, and after doctor's advice we took the plane. Again my wee boy was a star and slept most of the way. To be truthful when he wasn't sleeping he was crying, but that wasn't very often considering he was still pretty ill.

Now his Dad's got his cold or whatever it is, and has been in bed for the past 2 days... I have never seen him as ill as this, so if it is the same bug that Logan has, then my boy is a tough little cookie.