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.
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