Evening ladies. We have had no Internet most of the day so have only just caught up.
Kiwi sorry about the early mornings. DS2 is slowly inching his way towards a pre 6 am wake up which we are very worried about. He actually didn't wake for his 10.30pm feed last night, which I thought would happen soon as he was hardly having any mill when he woke anyway. However, he woke feeling very sprightly just after 6am. I have actually taken to having my itouch by the bed for such occasions and I reach down start up one of the movies that DH put on it (ice age 3 or up) and hand it to DS2 who then leans back on me and watches the movie for a bit. I used to do something similar with DS1 but it was a portable DVD player loaded ready with 'Thomas'. I know the screen is a bit small but he can hold it and he's only got little eyes.
I love Julius, and wish I'd thought of it for DS2 now. I
thought about Julian, because I liked the idea of Jules as a nickname, as a nod to a very dear friend of mine who is a Julie. However, I wasn't that keen on Julian, but Julius would have been perfect. Oh well I do like his name now, he suits it. Also I love the Dutch pronounce it with a 'y' instead of a 'j'.
We had a funny day today. First DS1 went to school as normal then just as I was getting DS2 down for his nap the school rang because he had 2 nose bleeds and they felt he should come home. He was fine, just a bit worried that he had ruined his fav shirt. Then I woke DS2 at 12 because he had a developmental check up at 1pm but he was really grizzly and refused his lunch. We rode over to the appointment, but he grizzled the whole way through and refused to do any of the developmental activities. The HV just asked me stuff and took my word for it. His height & weight were all fine, and she was quite impressed that he could ride a scooter. She asked if i told him to go get a towel would he do it. I said we hasn't ever asked him that but he followed commands like take this to mummy/daddy, go get the ball, & where's your head. Which she seemed satisfied with. She then told me at his 2yr check he would be expected to point to body parts on a doll, like the hands and elbows. I'm not sure if that means I should start coaching him now . She asked what words he knew so I reeled off a few, she stopped me quickly and said 'as long as it's more than three'. I felt a bit bad as I said he can say dog, then I realised afterwards that he only says oof oof when he sees a dog.
Anyhoo we came home and DH & DS1 were out (getting a new wifi router thing for the Internet) and DS2 was still grizzly but I managed to get him to have a lot of mango (ie i cut myself some mango and he helped himself to most of it). Then we sat down to chill watching Magnum P.I. & he promptly fell asleep on my lap for an hour. When he woke he was fine. So maybe he is just a bit tired? I wish that would translate to a lie in though.
JJ I hate to tell you this but DS1 stopped having naps around this time.
Avo sorry work is no fun, will you look into the career break then? I'm so glad I'm not working in the NHS now, we were on a permanent vacancy freeze before goodness knows what it will be like now. I would hope he might help some of the bills on children with disabilities and funding go through though. When i worked with my community team there was no pot of money for kids with disabilities, if one needed a wheelchair we used to try to use the money from the vacant posts we had. Nightmare!
Not much chop for you DH JJ, I do think the waiting to see what policies this govt has is a bit of a cop out though.
Right better go DH has just been for a ride and is about to cook dinner but I think he wants to talk to me.