Amber necklaces

An interesting thing happened this week. Logan was teething and the first thing everyone told me was "amber necklace"! He's got one, but he'd never worn it because he's only wee and I was really worried he might strangle himself. However after the last episode, he is now wearing it every day. I do take it off at night though as I'm still a bit neurotic about them.

This latest teething episode was the worst one yet. I haven't yet managed to shove my fingers in Logan's mouth and see whether one or more back teeth have popped out. The signs were there: he wasn't happy about brushing his teeth anymore, was a bit whiney every day, was dribbling more than usual, but we didn't put 2 and 2 together and it took us by surprise.

It lasted 4 days of constant pain, dribbling by the bucket and hardly any eating. It was awful for all of us, sleepless nights, the lot. I even had to change his bed sheet in the middle of the night, it was so wet he couldn't sleep on it anymore.

But it's over now and we've got our happy chappy back, even chirpier than before.

And before this nasty episode, we had a great morning at the beach, where Logan was really adventurous and ran into the sea a couple of times. No matter how cold the sea was as he's got great little snowboots, I had to stop him going too far in! It was great fun!

WTF??

Yeah, WTF was going on last night? We'd just been asleep for about an hour, so were in a nice, deep sleep, when Logan started to wail. Quarter to one in the morning it started. So I get up and go to see what's wrong. Checked if he was warm or cold, didn't seem so. Cuddled him for about 10 minutes then put him back down, with a blanket.

He was not happy. But I ignored him for a bit, and we both fell asleep again.

Some time around 1.20 am he starts crying again! So we'd be sleeping, what, 10 minutes? Nice, deep sleep as well. I zombie along back to his bedroom and give him another 10 minute cuddle (it's nice to have the sofabed in his bedroom after all!), and his dad brings him some water.

Back to bed and asleep, he starts wailing again at 1.50 am!!!

This time I cuddle him for about 45 minutes, during which he does not fall asleep. I'm fed up by now so with his dad we give him some Calpol, which I hate doing if he's not ill but maybe he was teething? Maybe he had a sore tummy? At least Calpol helped him sleep, but when I went back to bed the clock showed 2.50 am... He had been up for 2 hours, with apparently no reason whatsoever!

Oh I can't wait for him to have enough speech to tell me what's wrong!

And it's my BIRTHDAY today, so to make up for keeping me awake half the night, Logan got me a super duper present and card!!

We've overgrown the house!

6 weeks since the last post, life is busy! Quite a lot has happened during that time so let's recap the most interesting stuff.

The first event that took place was that I went on a second trip with work. This one was much more fun as I was sent to Paris to visit some hotels and show this great city to some of my colleagues who came on the trip with me. However, we had to go over the week-end so Logan and I didn't get to spend any quality time together for quite a while. We Skyped for the first time! The first night, Logan was too tired and didn't really understand what was going on. But the second time he was well with it and quite happy to see me, started talking (in his own language) about his day, it was really cool. He learnt to say Spider while I was away... When I came back on Sunday night he was already fast asleep, so I decided to take my time on Monday morning, giving him breakfast, getting him ready, and not worry about being at work for 8.30. We both needed to spend that little extra time together. I made it at work for 9.30 am :).

The other major event was that we've decided the house is now way too small for us. Logan's dad is running his business from the little box room, Logan has a massive double sofa bed in his bedroom which means the amount of toy space is limited. We don't want to get rid of the sofa bed as it is very handy when friends or family want to stay over. So we've frantically repainted the house and put it on the market 6 weeks ago. We have already spotted the perfect new house for us, just crossing fingers that serendipity will do its thing and that ours will sell in good time to snap our future house.

Last week-end we had one of our monthly mummy and toddler (they've been upgraded from babies) coffee afternoons. It was phenomenal: the first time that we the mummies have actually been able to relax, enjoy our coffee whilst hot and lovely Halloween cakes, without having to worry about one of ou children getting tired and cranky, hungry, clingy etc... The kids played really happily together and we were able to tell each other about our lives. It was bliss. We can't wait for the next one in a couple of weeks, and we'll then have a Christmas one when the kids will get little presents from Santa.