Well I’m surprisingly awake again but I suspect that sleepiness is going to crash down at some point. Gav was a superstar last night and urged me to go to get some sleep early evening. It wasn’t really sleep unfortunately as the girls were being quite boisterous downstairs but I probably managed a good hour which helped to set me up for the night shift. Night shift it was. Cerys was so sore that I had to bring her back downstairs for a second night in the lounge. She stayed awake until ten to four, then woke at four o’clock after weeing on the blankets (still nappy-free). She managed an hour but then Thomas began crying. He was crying for ages on the baby monitor and poor Gav had obviously gone into my usual state of survival shut down so I had to nip up to the rescue. I can’t blame him, I’m usually the one who doesn’t wake and it’s amazing how the body can simply refuse to wake up if it’s tired enough. Thankfully Thomas settled quickly but back downstairs Cerys woke again and that was pretty much it. She slept fitfully but not very well so I didn’t really sleep after that.
This morning Cara is looking far better, Thomas’s spots seem to be slowing down. Cerys is still completely plastered and very sore and still has fevers but the spots are the deep red now so hopefully she has peaked. She’s still nappy-free and weeing everywhere despite using the potty to play with! Thomas now has a nappy thankfully so a little less running around mopping up.
The mission today is to get Zadie to preschool without getting the troops into contact with anyone! I wanted to call the preschool to ask if we could arrive a little later to avoid the handover but they’re not answering the phone.
Blimey Cerys is doing a Teletubby dance behind me, she’s looking far brighter…oh and now playing peep-bo with Thomas round the edge of the drawers at the end of the side passage.
The girls are upstairs on the Cbeebies website. I’d like to do a bit of cooking with them later if I can scramble together some ingredients. On the food note we have had some real success on the allergy note lately. Cara can now tolerate a little cow’s milk ice-cream. I’ve been giving her a few spoons each day and Zadie is starting to brave a little too and it’s going well. The babies have successfully eaten cheese on toast and pizza so they are fine with cooked milk products. It makes life a lot easier and gives me real hope they’ll all overcome the allergy eventually.
Right two babies trying to climb on my knee. Better zip.
