Oscar Ouch!

After a rough night with the boys, I got up early to a video on my phone from Rob, smiling away in the mirror of his hotel as he showed me around his room!  The cheek of it!

For swimming this week, I took Leo and Oscar into the pool first, before Leo's lesson.  Oscar wasn't sure to start with but was soon loving it!  I took Leo's arm bands off and he fell under twice, but popped up and was fine.  I made fun by asking him how many fish he had seen, and he played along.

Oscar always, always does a poo when I take him swimming! It's horrible!  I had to get out with a wet, cold Leo, clean him up, and the cubicle as it fell on the floor, and then got back in the pool.  It was tough going but luckily Oscar didn't cry once and Leo was very helpful and did as he was told for a change.

Leo then started getting cold in the pool too and I was bit worried about him with his lesson (which he didn't want to do) but new he would be moving more and I'm sure he would be fine.  I asked Nicky, his teacher, to keep an eye on him and if he went bluer to call me to get him out.

He did really well though and even put his face in a couple of times.

In the morning, Ellis had mentioned about Nanny Rennolds picking him up from school, I called her and she came over as a surprise, and picked him up, which I think he loved.

Mum did the usual helping me out with the household chores and getting dinner in the boys before going home.

Just before I had to leave to take Ellis to his football practice, I went into the garden and found this!

After a quick change we managed to get to football just after it had started.  Ellis loves going but struggles to hear what's being asked of him and I don't think he fully understands the game yet.  I don't know if I've mentioned this yet but I'll say it again just in case, but Ellis recently had a hearing test as school and he had a unsatisfactory result.  This only means he will have to have another test in 6 weeks and apparently it is very common for them to fail their first test.  He does say pardon a lot but I haven't really noticed any problems as such.

Entertaining the younger 2 at football, whilst trying to watch Ellis a bit is near on impossible.  It's unsafe for one as Leo climbs up to look over the balcony, Oscar can run towards an open stair case and could potentially slip through a fence on the balcony, down to the courts below.  Not relaxing, fun or nice.

We get home just after bath time should start but Ellis is always sweaty and Leo and Oscar both smelled of chlorine from the pool so I gave them all a good scrub and got them into bed as quickly as I could.

I had a lovely shower and changed my bedding and was looking forward to going to bed.

Oscar wasn't very happy at bath time, and shortly after putting him in bed he was screaming.  It wasn't his usual upset cry, it was a cry of "I'm in pain!".  I was quite worried as it's unusual for him so after giving him the once over I realised that he had a very sensitive back.  I phoned the out of hours doctor and they called me back very quickly.  We discussed his symptoms and I was told to give him a high dose of pain killers and if it didn't improve within an hour, I was to take him to A&E!  What! I'm on my own, with a screaming baby, clearly in pain, and I'm told that I might have to rush him to hospital!  I called my parents of course and put them on alert for coming over, which obviously they were more than ready to do, but after waiting an hour, calling the doctors back and seeing how Oscar was, it was decided to let him get some rest and to see how he was the next day.

I'd kept the poor thing up until 10:30pm so that I could keep an eye on him so he was shattered! I quickly followed him to bed as I was shattered too.

I tried closing my PC down, only to see this! I don't think that's a good thing.

Look who slept in until nearly 7:30am!

Ellis woke up in a foul mood but Leo on the other hand was amazing and won some chocolate stars for being so quiet and not waking Oscar up.

Oscar still wasn't right, so I gave him some more medicine and planned a quiet day at home with him.

I took the boys to school, came home and gave Oscar some milk with some cuddles and put him down for a nap.

I did some pottering and then noticed that my PC was still unhappy about something.

I don't know what I would do without my PC.  I love using it and it has everything on it that I need so setting up again on something else would be a time consuming, annoying, pain in the arse!

I took care of the boys in the afternoon and we tried to chill out as much as possible.  I got them to bed and tried to relax.  Rob came home late as he went out for a meal and drinks with some friends as they had had a very busy week at work and wanted to celebrate the completion of the hard bits.

On the Saturday we had planned to go to a community festival and Ellis was going to dance and stuff but it was cancelled due to the amount of rain we had been receiving.  It was such a shame as I was really looking forward to it.

The weather on the actual day wasn't too bad but the pitches where everyone would put their stalls was flooded.

In the afternoon Rob took the older boys to Faith's swimming party.  It was the first time Rob had taken them swimming on his own and I pretty much made him go.  I put Oscar down for a nap and he said that I could now go, but I said NO!  It was lush for the boys and lush for me.

Rob sent me a picture of the boys having their party lunch bags, and I sent one of Oscar having some milk.

Oscar wasn't right all day, and I kept him topped up with medicine.  This didn't help him sleep though and he was up with me until 9pm.

Going to the airshow tomorrow, and leaving Oscar with Mum and Dad for the first time.  Excited!

Harry

What a night! I hardly slept as a drunken couple were having a fight right outside my window, and the windows in this house aren't the best anyway.  They were really going for it and I had to watch to make sure the women was okay as it was getting a bit physical at times.  They moved on eventually.

The kids had me up early for a change and we messed about first thing before I took Ellis to his tennis lesson and popped in to see Sophie while he played.

It was a birthday party day, and for a change, it was for a friend of Leo's.  Rob was supposed to be home in time to take Leo but got stuck on the motorway on his way home so I ended up having to take all 3 with me.

Rob arrived 10 minutes after I got to the party and we all had a lovely time.

My back has been playing up a lot recently and today it was really bad so Rob had to help me out a lot.   I said I would take Ellis to the next birthday party as at least I could just sit still and watch rather than taking care of Oscar and Leo.  He wasn't happy about this to start with but when I told him it was a fancy dress party, he quickly changed his mind for some reason.

Once home I took Leo and Oscar out in the car to Ali's house.  She had kindly agreed to lend us all of her camping gear for our upcoming trip to Camp Bestival.

Rob helped me to bath the boys as my back was not good.

The weather on Monday was really bad again and it rained all day, which meant that Ellis missed out on having a proper teddy bear picnic at school.  I think he ended up having it in the hall.

Mum came over like she always does, did my ironing, which is so helpful and looked after Leo for me so that I could go to Sing and Sign with Oscar.

She also ended up staying later as she agreed to go to Ellis' school for Grandparent Day.  She said she got lovely reports from the teachers about Ellis, was shown around his classroom, had a cup of tea and biscuits, and got to see his learning diary.  I think she enjoyed it in the end as she was feeling a little nervous to start with.  Ellis didn't want her to leave at the end so Mrs Warren had to take him off Mum's leg back into the classroom.  I'm sure he was fine 2 minutes later.

I'm not sure if Ellis wasn't feeling well or was just very tired, but I let him go to sleep in our bed first before later transferring him into his own bed as he was very teary at bedtime and they love the novelty of going in our bed.

At Leo's gym class this week, Oscar went through the tunnel, all by himself for the first time!  I know I'm a bit too excited about that but it takes my babies ages to do that tunnel.

Leo had fun too and was in a good mood so we all had a nice time.

As the weather was still horrid, we spent a lot time playing board games and painting, which is Leo's new favourite hobby.

Along with my back ache, I ended up with a lovely headache too.  I'm pretty sure it's tension as it goes up my back, into my shoulder blade, up my neck and into the lower part of my head.  It's not very nice and I just hope it goes soon.

We went up to Mum's in the afternoon where we had spaghetti bolognese.  It's one of my favourite meals and we do eat it quite a lot.  Ellis loves it too but Leo won't touch it and Oscar doesn't like the onions.  Hopefully one day they will love it too.

The boys were all really well behaved and ate well.  Leo did moan about feeling sick at one point and when I cuddled him I realised he had a slight temperature.  I gave him some medicine and on the way home he moaned the whole way about feeling sick but thankfully wasn't sick in the car this time!

By the time I had got everyone in bed it was just gone 8pm.

I had a shower, pottered about and got to bed early, on my own as Rob was working late.

As I was saying before about the boys loving the novelty of being in our bed, Leo ended up in there yet again last night.  I don't think it's a novelty for him anymore as he always seems to end up in with us at some point. I think if he had his own room it would be easier to keep him in his bed but I don't want him waking Ellis up with his squealing!

After picking Leo up from preschool, Nic brought Harry over for me to look after him for a bit as Ella was going to a story time at her new school.  Harry is so cute!

We went for a walk to the shops to use up some time before picking Ellis up.  All the boys played in the playground for a while and Harry hurt his arm!  It had to happen when I was watching him!  I couldn't believe it.  He didn't cry or anything though, he didn't even know he had done it, I just saw the blood.  He was very brave.

Nic came in and stayed for a while as she didn't have to pick Ella up until 5pm from the nursery around the corner from our house.

It was a bit chaotic after then as I was trying to cook dinner, make sure the boys were safe and show someone the double buggy I am trying to sell.  They couldn't fit it into their boot so they didn't take it.

Leo was screaming the place down at 5pm saying he was so tired, so I just put him to bed.  I knew it was a bad idea but he couldn't stay awake.

Dinner ended up being late so I didn't do bath time and just got them to bed on time.

Leo woke up at 8pm and then didn't go back to sleep until 1:30am!  It wasn't good.  He came downstairs twice for food and kept going to the toilet.  Oscar even woke up again too so I gave him some more milk and he settled again.

Because Leo was being a pain, Ellis stayed in my bed again and when Rob text me (at 1:30am) to say he was staying in a hotel that night, I left Ellis there.

It had been a very long, hard day and I was exhausted.