Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

Hi from a snowy and chilly Issaquah! Hope that this finds you all warm and well! We are fine but have had a few worrying moments over the last couple of days! Nothing too major, though!

It started to snow on Monday lunch time but it was too warm to settle then! It didn't stop the girls watching it excitedly for a good 10 minutes though whilst it lasted, which was funny in itself! However, it soon stopped and later on Tim took Naomi to dancing and then he and Esther went to Target whilst I took Silas to do the food shopping in preparation for Pam and Ken arriving on Tuesday. Whilst we were shopping, it snowed a tiny bit again but this time it settled on the ground and on the cars. However Tim and I both got home on Monday afternoon just as we would normally do. But by the time I went upstairs to run the bath, it was snowing furiously and in an hour and a half had settled quite a bit outside. There was also thunder and lightning, which surprised ;me as I have never had a storm whilst it was snowing before!

Just before the girls went to bed, Tim went outside to take some photos and there was already about 3 inches on the ground and it was snowing again. By the time we went to bed they had shut the I90, the I405 and the I5 and people were well and truly stranded for the night. WE were then very concerned about collecting Tim's parents on Tuesday and needed to make sure that they knew that we were having problems in case we didn't make it to the airport the following day!

However on Tuesday, whilst we were outside playing in the snow, the snow plough /  gritter came round and cleared our road completely. It was also starting to melt and so we felt confident that the hill would be clear too. Tim took the girls down to Target just before lunch but unfortunately the hill was not cleared and he was unable to get the car back up the hill. He and the girls had to walk up the hill, which was fine (it was dry and sunny) but they arrived home tired, hungry and Naomi was upset by the dog! We had to leave the car abandoned!

We were then very worried about how we were going to get to the airport, but our friend James offered to take Tim in his 4x4 to the airport, which he did. He was able to get up and down the hill carefully and he and Tim were able to collect his parents as planned and arrived home here about 5:30 PM which wasn't too bad!

Today we spent the time at home, but Tim, his parents and the girls went for a walk this afternoon and Tim was able to bring the car back up to the garage too. The girls had a lovely play with Grandad this morning and Silas has had lots of cuddles with everybody!

The coughs and colds are getting better here, even Silas although he is very snuffly today. Hopefully they will all be better in the next couple of days! It is raining here now and so we hope to be able to go out somewhere tomorrow for a while at least and on Saturday we are planning on going to Portland for the weekend; we may not come back until Monday as Tim has taken Monday off too! I think he wants to defer the inevitable for as long as possible and I am not complaining!

Well, that  is all our news here and I am going to bed!

Hope all is well with you and will write next week once we have returned!

Thanksgiving Weekend

Hello there! Hope that this finds you well and not too chilly! Unfortunately, the girls and Silas all have nasty coughs and colds (although Silas isn't too bad at the minute) and it is wet, windy and cold here right now. They are forecasting snow tomorrow and it has been snowing this evening but not settling. We can see snow on the mountain though.

The coughs and colds haven't stopped us from doing too much, although we have had a couple of afternoons where we haven't gone out to play on the boat for example so that we wouldn't pass it onto anyone else. We had a very quiet day on Thursday which was Thanksgiving Day here. We didn't have any plans ourselves and it was extremely wet so we did very little. I did persuade every one to go to the park about 4pm on Thursday with the girls' bikes but it was so bitterly cold, we didn't stay out for more than about 10 minutes!

By Friday I was desperate to do something as we had had about 3 days by then where we hadn't done much but thankfully we had plans to  meet up with James and Vanessa and the children at Crossroads Mall to see Father Christmas and a Children's singer called Eric Ode who is very good. We had a good morning there - Naomi even went up on stage with him to shake the bells for Jingle Bells which was great! We didn't take the children to sit on Father Christmas' knee as it really was only a photo opportunity and they wanted $63 for it!!

In the afternoon we met up again at the Children's museum in Seattle, where the children had a wonderful time! There is a Clifford the Dog exhibition on at the minute and the girls all spent ages in there as there was lots to do. They sorted the mail, ran the cafe and played with the bones. Eventually we persuaded them to leave and they went to play at shops for a while in the permanent exhibit! It was lovely watching them play though; there was an older  boy who was very good with all the little ones and he acted as the shop assistant. This meant that our children all gathered their shopping and then took it to him and the game went on for ages! It was lovely because even Alex could join in and they all had a great time.

After we left the museum, we went upstairs to the food court and gave the children a picnic tea before coming home. It was a lovely day and Silas had been a  star and had slept through most of it!

yesterday, we met up with our friends James and Victoria with their children, Robert and Harriet. We went to the Science center and with our prime cards, all of us got in to the museum and to see the Imax film about Egypt for $21. WE couldn't believe it! Esther took to Robert and spent most of the day wandering around holding his hand and he was a star and didn't mind! In fact, I think he quite enjoyed it and had a great time playing with her!

We saw some of the science bits first and then went to see the Histories of Egypt film. Tim and I were a bit nervous about how our children would cope as they have never been to the cinema before, but it was on only 40 minutes long. In fact, they both did brilliantly. Esther sat there with her mouth open in wonder for the whole of it, mesmerized I think by the vastness of it all and Naomi was obviously taking it all in as she was asking very intelligent questions about what she was watching. Sadly, Mummy didn't know the answer to some of them!!

I woke Silas up just as we were going in and fed him during the film, thankfully as it was dark, no-one could see to complain about the breasts being on display!! He then fell asleep so that was good!

WE went and got some lunch after that and then went back for a while before going to see the laser show. Normally the laser show is only on at the evenings and is expensive, but they were doing a special weekend rate of $1 each and an after noon showing. The show was good; all the children started off laying on their backs to watch it but Esther and Robert came back to sit down with us about half way through. It was Naomi's highlight of the day though and she enjoyed being a big girl, lying with Harriet. Silas got fed again and then lay looking at the lights and focused well on them!

It was gone 4pm by the time we had finished in the laser show and so we came home to have tea and put the children to bed. Esther woke up in the night crying and crying and then Silas took ages to settle so I didn't have a good night last night! I didn't go to church this morning but Tim took the girls. This afternoon we made a cake and a pie and Naomi and I played a few rounds of Guess Who, which was fun!

Silas is OK and is coping with his cough but the girls have started off mildly and then have got worse, so I hope that he continues to do OK. Esther is on the mend now but Naomi has been full of cold today; we'll have to see about school tomorrow, I think. Silas has been very unsettled this afternoon though and has been very hungry , so I am not predicting a good night! He is yelling again and so I shall end it there!

Passports

Hello there, how are you? We are fine and have had a quiet couple of days, so the blog won't be very long I am afraid! It is still raining here but we did get out this afternoon for a wet walk and splash in the puddles!

On Monday, Esther and Tim went to Gym class and then I took Naomi in the afternoon. After we had dropped Naomi off, Esther and I took Silas to be weighed and discovered that he is a stonking 11lb 8oz - an increase of 21oz in the last 2 weeks! I think that he is growing OK, don't you? He is  a big boy and so I am not surprised and he feeds thoroughly in as much that he will feed for about 20 - 30 minutes when he feeds. Thankfully he doesn't feed every 90 minutes or so but can go quite a few hours! I have learnt though that if he has a long spell without a feed, he will make up for it later! He usually has between 5 -7 feeds a day.

I have started to bath Silas in the bath with the girls as he was bashing his head on the side of the little bath! The girls love it and so does Silas, although I have to stop the girls poking their fingers in his ears, eyes, nose, mouth or pulling at his willy!! Poor child!! He is very calm after his bath and on Monday he slept from after his bath for most of the night and only woke up in the early hours of the morning for a feed! It was lovely to have an evening! However, it was a one off since he hasn't done it yesterday or today!

Yesterday, we took Silas to get his passport; I was expecting it to be a long winded hassle of a job but it was speedy, easy and a pleasant experience!! I think I was put off by our experiences with the Visa 2 years ago! The office where you have to go was staffed mostly by ladies, all of whom came to see Silas! They were pleasant, helpful and friendly and didn't mind that it took Silas ages to wake up so that he could have his passport photo taken with his eyes open! In the end we were all trying to wake him up but without much success! The lady did get on e with his eyes open but we only hope the passport office like it! In the afternoon, I went for a nap and Tim played games with the girls.

Today, Naomi went to school and Esther and I stayed at home with Silas. Esther hasn't been very well today, with a high temperature and cough and cold. I am hoping she feels better tomorrow and that she doesn't give it to Silas. We keep trying to persuade her not to give him kisses on his face but we are not always successful! She was very helpful today though as she helped me get him dressed this morning.

Esther was funny the other day! She was talking to Silas and he pursed his lips in an "oo" face and she suddenly laughed and said "Mummy, he is being a fish!" I knew what she meant and it did look like that! She was delighted!

The good thing about Silas taking so long to feed is that I am getting through my backlog of books! I have read 2 over the last couple of weeks that I have really enjoyed. One was called "Miss Garnet's Angel", by Salley Vickers, which was a lovely story and from an author new to me, that I shall have to find more of! (Good choice, Grandma!) The other was a David Baldacci that my Dad left me called "The Collectors", which was also good! I need to find another one now and might try a non fiction one before the brain goes to mush! The girls benefit too, as I read a lot of stories to them in the daytime too!

Anyway, that is it for now, will write on Sunday hopefully!

Bunk Beds

Hello there! hope that this finds you all well! We are fine! We are in fact a bit chaotic this week, as we have had a major reshuffle of the bedrooms upstairs and so it currently looks as if we have just moved in!

Naomi and Esther have moved into their new room and it is looking great! Tim did a great job at painting all the walls a very pretty pink colour and building the beds. Naomi and Esther were so excited on Friday when Tim was building the beds, they wanted to 'help'. They were very good at finding the right sized screws for him! The beds look really good; we are pleased with the quality of them and they look quite sturdy! They are higher than I thought they were going to be but there is a very sturdy side panel to stop Naomi falling out!

The girls had their first night in the new room last night, having spent a lot of yesterday when we were at home playing at going to sleep in the beds! However, despite this they took ages to go to sleep last night! Thankfully, though they were OK today and behaved well. This evening they were in bed extra early and were asleep at a reasonable time. Esther did manage to fall out of bed last night but wasn't woken up by it at all! I tucked her in very well and she then stayed put! If she keeps doing it, we shall have to buy her a bed side,  but hopefully she'll learn her new dimensions soon!

This evening, Esther decided that she needed to go to the toilet and so Naomi very helpfully got her to the bathroom, where Esther removed her nappy, went to the toilet on the toilet and then was about to get back into bed without a nappy on when Tim caught them and realised what was going on! We couldn't work out whether to be pleased that Esther was toilet training herself or despairing at her timing of it!!

So, the new guest room is Esther's old room and Silas is going to have Naomi's old room. I have yet to move Silas' things into his new room, but hope to do that in the next few days. Eventually we will redecorate Silas' room as it is a lovely lilac colour at the minute but that is not imminent!

Silas is fine and feeding well. He slept all morning when we were at church and until we were about half way round the Yuletide festival that we visited afterwards but he has made up for the feeds this afternoon and evening! I am going to weigh him tomorrow but he looks bigger! He is beginning to be more awake and alert and looking around. Naomi is particularly good with him and will talk and play with him when he is on the mat. Esther just wants to take his clothes off the whole time!! Still, they are both very helpful and love him a lot!

Esther is very logical at the moment and very literal, so if you say, don't touch something and then turn round and find her  pushing it, she will defend herself when challenged by saying "I wasn't touching it, I was pushing it!" What do you do with her? I asked her the other day where her cough had come from and she said "my mouth!" and when I asked her today why her dolly had no clothes on, she replied "Because I took them off!" She is funny!

Naomi starts every sentence with either "well" or "why" which is very funny and got her metaphor muddled this week when she said that "her wind had gone". When I asked what she meant, she said "oh no, I mean my cold"! She obviously remembered that it was some sort of weather analogy but couldn't remember what it was!

This afternoon after church we went to the Nordic museum in Seattle for their yuletide festival. It was very good and we all enjoyed it. There were a lot of live bands playing very good music as well as stalls and a craft activity for the girls. We weren't there long, but we had a good time!

Other than this, we haven't done anything other than our normal activities, although we did spend a very happy morning with Melinda and Chad yesterday, which was lovely!

Pink!

Hello! How are you? We are fine! There is hardly any news this week, but I  am sure that you just want to hear that we are OK!

We are all fine! Silas is behaving like you would expect a 3 week old baby to, the girls are loving having Daddy around a lot and I am pleased that I can drive again this week! Tim has been busy this week painting the girls' new bedroom a pretty pink colour and it is now finished apart from making up the beds! Tim collected the beds yesterday and hopes to put it together tomorrow! The girls are very excited!

We have done our usual activities this week so far and also went to see Ulrike on Tuesday afternoon. The weather here has been appalling with gales and lots of rain. Yesterday we managed to get out for  a wet walk and that was it! The girls enjoyed splashing in the puddles though! Today it was fine and so we met up with Vanessa and the children in the park, which was great and we all felt better for it!

IT has been good this week as we have had Tim around but not with us the whole time and so it has given me some chance to get used to taking the children out on my own! It has been fine!

Anyway, that really is about it and so I am going to go to bed now! Take care and I hope to write with more news on Sunday!

Pink!

Hello! How are you? We are fine! There is hardly any news this week, but I  am sure that you just want to hear that we are OK!

We are all fine! Silas is behaving like you would expect a 3 week old baby to, the girls are loving having Daddy around a lot and I am pleased that I can drive again this week! Tim has been busy this week painting the girls' new bedroom a pretty pink colour and it is now finished apart from making up the beds! Tim collected the beds yesterday and hopes to put it together tomorrow! The girls are very excited!

We have done our usual activities this week so far and also went to see Ulrike on Tuesday afternoon. The weather here has been appalling with gales and lots of rain. Yesterday we managed to get out for  a wet walk and that was it! The girls enjoyed splashing in the puddles though! Today it was fine and so we met up with Vanessa and the children in the park, which was great and we all felt better for it!

IT has been good this week as we have had Tim around but not with us the whole time and so it has given me some chance to get used to taking the children out on my own! It has been fine!

Anyway, that really is about it and so I am going to go to bed now! Take care and I hope to write with more news on Sunday!

Parties!

Hello there! Hope that this finds you well. We are fine and have managed our first week as a family of 5 very well! I can't believe that we have had Tim at home for a whole week and a quarter of his paternity leave, it has gone so fast! I am still nervous as to how I am going to manage on my own with them all, mainly because I think we are never ever going to get there on time but I don't have to worry about that quite yet and it will get easier as Silas gets older. At least I know that we will manage at the weekends OK, although we haven't made it to church on time yet either!!

We have had a busy day today and although it is not very late, I am going to write this quickly and go to bed as I am very tired. It was our churches 5th Birthday party today and so we met at a school a bit further north of  church so that we all could celebrate together (normally there are 3 different services). I didn't see much of the service as Silas needed feeding and Esther was unsettled and so we were in the nursery area for most of it. Tim and Naomi were in the service though and it seemed to go OK. Originally we hoped that we could stay for lunch at church but the queue was so long that we gave up and went elsewhere!

We had to also be at Fritzi's party this afternoon and so we went onto there straighjt from Seattle. We had a good ti9me at the party; Ulrike had organised a lantern walk for the children followed by some games, which was fun! Silas was very good and was cuddled by lots of people! Ulrike had decorated the room with lots of Christmas lights and so he was very happy looking at them all!

On  Saturday we finally made it out of the house at lunch time (!) and did a bit of shopping. We bought some paint in Home Depot to paint the new room for the girls. They are going to have what is now our spare room and we wanted to paint it before the furniture was in it. It is a pale pink colour which will actually be quite pretty I think. I think they will like it. Tim started to paint the ceiling on Saturday night and he will hopefully finish the first coat this afternoon - there is so little light in the room that it was hard painting it in the semi darkness! In the afternoon I had a sleep as Silas had been up  a few times for the previous few nights and I was in need of sleep! The girls played and watched the television for a bit and Silas was asleep.

We had a lovely day on Friday as Becky, Darin and the boys came for lunch and for the afternoon. It was really good to see them again and to introduce Silas to them! Becky and I were commenting on how lovely it is to watch Esther and Eli play so well together. Eli has been a bit unsettled recently and needing to have Becky close by and so she was pleased that he was running about and not needing her and I was pleased to watch Esther playing with a friend of her own age rather than with the older girls. They were giggling and giggling at each other - it was very funny!

There has been a lot of snow over the pass though this weekend and so it took them a bit longer than they thought to get here and there had been more snow on Saturday, so we hope that they got home OK.

Naomi, Esther and I played one of Naomi's new games on Friday whilst we waited for Becky and Darin to arrive. It was one that Grandma Beads had bought her and it involved looking for hidden treasure! It is a good game that Esther could play too although she needed a bit of help with some of it. There is a board with doors and you have to match the card you pick from the deck with one of the doors. If there is a ball underneath the door, then you place it in a special chamber. Once all 6 balls have been found a treasure chest magically opens to reveal sparkly treasure!! As you can imagine it is a popular game! We played it a lot on Friday and I can see it being requested frequently!

On Thursday we bought Naomi and Esther a bunk bed! Tim collects it on Wednesday. We went to look at some in Kirkland and then in fact bought it over the Internet but at least we had a good idea what the quality was like from  the store. We had a successful couple of hours on Thursday as we also were able to update our driving licence to our address here in Issaquah. We need all sorts of identification to be able to get Silas a passport and so we needed to get it done! In the afternoon Vanessa and the children came round.

Silas is doing well - he had a very lazy day on Thursday and barely fed at all which worried me a bit but he has made up for it the last few days so that is OK! He is getting to have quite alert times which is nice and loves his bath. He is always very mellow and calm after his bath and that is the best time to cuddle him!! He is not so good at bringing up his wind but he settles with gripe water usually! He has taken to his dummy well during the latter half of this week and has worked out how to keep it in; I am pleased about this as he was wanting to suck on something but wasn't taking the dummy very well! He is a star!

Anyway, it is Monday morning now and I had better go and get myself sorted out! Will write hopefully on Wednesday again!

Rain, rain and rain!

Hello there from a very wet Puget Sound region! The rain has dominated our lives this last week as we have had more than our usual amount of November's rain in 3 days! Consequently, there has been much flooding (I have been glad that we live up a mountain) and we had a power cut on Sunday. It has been quite exciting!

It started raining on Saturday as Mum and Dad left and only stopped yesterday. It was mostly fine today but has started to rain again this evening! We went to the Salmon Hatchery on Sunday afternoon and saw the Coho salmon leaping up the ladders and leaping out of the tanks! It was fun! The girls were splashed by a couple of the fish that leapt out in front of them! They enjoyed splashing in the puddles and Silas was warm and cozy in his buggy.

After we came home, we had a request from Esther to watch "more big rabbit", otherwise known as "Wallace and Gromit: The curse of the Were Rabbit"! We bought it from Netflix for about $5 last week and the girls have really enjoyed it! We were about 15 minutes from the end when everything went dark and blank and we had a power cut! The girls were very confused and miffed that they couldn't watch the end! We found the candles, the torches and the girls new  battery operated lanterns that we had bought for Fritizi's birthday party this Sunday. (Fritzi is having a lantern walk, a German Tradition for her birthday!) The girls really enjoyed wandering around the house with their lanterns!!

As it was nearly tea time, we ended up going down to
McDonalds for tea as they were open and by the time we came back the electricity was back on!

On Monday Tim had a baptism by fire as he had to get the girls up, dressed, fed and to school and gym class first thing!! he managed very well and then they came home for lunch. In the afternoon we went to watch Naomi's class, which was a special event for the children. I have videoed some of it and hopefully Tim will find something worth putting together for you to watch.

On Tuesday we had the morning at home and then went to Snoqualmie Falls as the paper had said that they were very magnificent with all the rain that there had been. Although it had stopped raining by the time we arrived at the falls, we were soaked! The amount of water that was flowing over the falls was tremendous and quite breathtaking but you got wet from the splash back of the water falling into the river! Naomi didn't like it much but Esther and Tim and I enjoyed it! Silas was, once again warm and cozy in his buggy and slept away!!

We drove through Snoqualmie village coming home and were amazed at how many of the houses had flooded. We had only seen floods like this on the television and here we were driving passed houses that were under a good few feet in water. One poor family were so cut off from their house that they had to row their way  to their front door. I felt so sorry for them. Our usual route home was closed and so we ended up going to North Bend a bit further down the I90 to get home. It was certainly quite something to see.

Today, Naomi had school this morning and Esther stayed with me and helped me get Silas dressed and changed! She was very helpful although she pulled rather a lot of cotton wool out of the bag at one point ("huge" she said)! Bless her! She is very good with him! Tim then took us shopping whilst he and Esther collected Naomi from school. This afternoon we met up with our friends, Jo and Zoe at the park for an hour or so before it got too cold and dusky to play any more! Silas is awake now and has had a lovely play under his baby gym for a  bit! He was really focusing on the giraffe and is now in his swing! He loves a cuddle too and so Tim and I have been sharing him!

The girls have been enjoying Tim at home this week. Naomi and Tim have been designing a zoo on the computer;m it is a game that Tim bought last week for children but it needs some sort of adult help too. Naomi has also requested that we do some cooking but that might have to wait until next week now! Tim said he would do some but then looked panicky when I said that he had to include Esther too! Esther and Tim had a good Gym session on Monday and she and I had a good time this morning before Silas woke up, which was nice.

Silas had a 2 week check on Monday and we were pleased to discover that he had put on nearly a pound in weight which was good! he is a bit colicky in the evenings but not too bad. he sleeps very well though, sometimes I get a bit worried but he is also having some good awake times too.

Anyway, my baby boy is crying again and may need feeding so I will go!

Silas Nathaniel Sneath: The early days!

Hello! I hope that this finds you all well! I am sorry that I have not written for a while but I am sure that you will all understand why! It is going to take a little while to settle into a pattern again but we'll get there eventually!

Well, Silas is now 11 days old and is generally doing very well! He has become more awake this week and has had some lovely calm awake times with us, although he has also had some very uncalm awake times today too! He is focusing more on our faces when he looks at us and is becoming less cross eyed. He likes to feed for a long time (about 30 minutes at a time) but then will also sleep for a long time too - sometimes for as long as 4 hours between feeds if we are out and about. He generally wakes up between 2 and 3 times a night, although the first one is often before I have gone to sleep, which is good. He loves to have a cuddle and a rock in the rocking chair and also tolerates the numerous kisses that his big sisters love to smother him with!

But to backtrack a bit and tell you about last week in the hospital. I have to say that I had an excellent experience here, right from the delivery through to discharge. It was still quite stressful at times (I'll explain in a  minute) but on Friday when Silas and I came home, I felt ready and well enough to come home, which I can honestly say that I haven't done before. The nurses were all very good and had time to look after their patients! All in all, it was the best experience of the three of them. Tim, too, was also really impressed as the nurses included him in the decisions and let him take care of Silas for me at times, which had not been the case when we had Naomi and Esther.

However, it was not all plain sailing as Silas had very low blood sugar levels when he was first born and eventually required intravenous fluids to maintain them above the approved level! We had tried all afternoon to feed him either breast milk or formula but without much success as he was either sick or not interested in taking it from the bottle. I was a bit upset when they had to take him to the special care nursery at about 10:00pm and anxious in the middle of the night when they started antibiotics just in case he had an infection, but I could ring them to see how he was and I could also go round to feed him when he needed it. I was very grateful that he was only a few minutes away (even allowing for the fact that I had to be wheeled round with all the paraphernalia that accompanies you post caesarian section!) and that he was not in another hospital because the baby unit was full.

 The nurses in the special care nursery were really lovely and I relaxed once I knew that he was being taken well care of. They were also really accommodating of Tim and he could go and visit when he liked too. Eventually on Wednesday lunch time, they wheeled him back to me in my room and he more or less stayed there with us until the night again. He was being a pickle on Wednesday though and was preferring the bottle to the breast which I was not keen on! The children's doctor came to see him though and explained that he was probably being a lazy boy and would start to feed from the breast once the milk came in - at this point in time though, he had to do less work to gain the milk via the bottle, which was his aim! She was right and within the next 24 hours he started to take the breast milk well!

The girls came to visit on Wednesday afternoon and on Thursday morning. Naomi has been a bit unsure at first but has warmed to her baby brother and now loves to help or shower him with kisses. Esther was very possessive at first but is now a bit more ambivalent; she is doing fine though! Naomi found it hard seeing Mummy in hospital but was fine once we came home.  They had both chosen toys for Silas which was sweet and he had also bought them present, which was very clever of him really!!

By Thursday afternoon, Silas was off all his intravenous drips and antibiotics and things and so he was able to spend the last night with me before we came home on Friday afternoon. It was lovely to be home and to have Mum and Dad here to look after us this last week! They have left this afternoon, which was very hard! Mum has been here such a  long time and has done so well with all the driving, nothing will stop her now! Still, Tim is off now for a month and his parents come at the end of that time, so we should get through these difficult early days more easily than most people! I am counting my blessings!

This week, Silas and I have generally spent the mornings at home whilst Mum and Dad have taken the children to their activities. On Monday afternoon I had an appointment with the Lactation Consultant, who was very nice! We had a busy day on Tuesday though, as Silas and I had an appointment with his doctor in the morning, then we went shopping and then we went trick or treating at Daddy's work in the afternoon! I overdid it a bit really but have taken it easy since then! The girls loved going to Daddy's work in their costumes and collecting candy! Mummy did quite a lot of sorting of the candy when they came home but we have put the rest away! We won't be buying sweets for a while now!

They looked lovely in their costumes though and they were very excited! They were also very good and said thank you to the people who left them the candy! By and large they enjoyed seeing the children come to the door tick or treating too, although a couple of the costumes frightened Esther especially!

Well, I am going to end it here as I am falling asleep! I may try and finish the last part tomorrow, otherwise I will try and write again soon!

 

Until then, take care!