It has just passed midnight and I'm about to zip to bed but had to pop in a very swift update. Steve, Gav's American boss just called. He was apparently returning Gav's call. Interesting choice of time to call! I've hardly spoken to Steve over the years Gav has worked at his company. I've met him once and he's okay. I found it quite entertaining that he was greeting me,
"Hi Lou."
Even though I always reply to notes with a 'Lou' and my best friends call me Lou I tend to often introduce myself as Louise to people I'm not that familiar with. I find it amusing that he thinks I'm that approachable. Gav must paint a warm picture of me!
Cara is, I think, on the verge of getting the chicken pox as she has had high fevers this evening. The twins are still have a bad viral cough which is low on their chests but are still in good humour and there are no signs of spots and no fevers yet. It will be strange tomorrow with Cara off school taking Zee to school. I bet Cara will enjoy that little venture. I'll have to keep her well back from the other children. We haven't been going to any groups because even though it's good for children to get over the chicken pox early I don't like to be the one choosing to expose them all to it. Sickness is terribly wearing in this house. I demanded that Gav wake me up to take turns with the night-trips the other night. It's incredible how much I sleep through these days. I simply don't wake up if they cry, even if I'm beside them. The other day I offered that I could sleep beside Thomas and Cerys so that Gav could get some rest and I woke to find him up giving the twins a bottle because I hadn't woken! In the last couple of nights he has been nudging me to take turns and it has been far better for him. I don't mind being woken at all if I'm taking turns. It's good to work together on this stuff. Working Sunday has given us a real teamwork edge too.
I've been trying to get my Ebay clobber sorted out the last couple of days. The children helped me out today as I took a stack of photos by diving in front of the camera each time I took a picture. It took a while to edit out chubby hands, feet and bellies on Photoshop afterwards!
Right, I'd better get to bed. I managed to get an hour sleep today when the babies went down. We would have been at the toy library if it wasn't for the pox so I felt doubly guilty about not doing something with Zee while I had the chance. She played on the CBeebies website on their bedroom computer beside me as I slept. I'm so glad she has school tomorrow. Right now I'm so tired in the day that I'm useless. The main antics here tend to take place between two and five in the morning and with Cara being poorly she could be joining in with the other three night-owls tonight.
