Doesn't the time just fly past.

This evening, just before his bedtime, Nyle was playing in our bedroom and went over to a bookcase. He started pulling a book off the shelf, something he doesn't do, and managed to get one out and throw it on the floor. I then noticed it was "Everything You Need to Know...About Baby's First Year." Do you think he knows more than he is letting on? Spooky!

to say "Hi" to everyone.

Life is still madly manic around here. Got home from holiday only for Leala to be diagnosed with chicken pox (I had a sneaky susicion, but on the day we were coming home, I took her in to a chemist who said it was the sun, so we clung on to that). I think a fair few people who were on the plane might be a bit miffed with me. Whoops.

Leala did cruise through CP with no major problems. Apart from the spots and a couple of nights when she woke up for a bath (which was a bit of a problem as we didn't have heating or hot water, so I had to carry her down the road to mym parent's house at midnight...), you wouldn't have known she was ill.

So, the next week and a half after she got over it, we were stuck pretty much indoors waiting for Nyle to go down with it. We were lucky enough to have a couple of friends who were happy to visit, but apart from that we have been getting pretty bored. Nyle finally got spots on Tuesday (16 days after he would have been infected) and has been a bit of a grouch, but not too bad, ever since. In fact, I have had two brilliant night's sleep out of the last three - 8 1/2 hours last night, unbroken! First time in about a year and a half!

This evening, though, when I undressed him for his bath, I noticed one of the spots on his tummy, which has been covered up all day, was really nasty looking. It was large (bigger than a 50p coin, if that means anything to non-UKers) and looked wrong. I phoned the local health service and was advised to get him to see a doctor. So, just before 8pm I had to load both kids into the car for our appointment, because Nick had gone out for the evening before this blew up. Parked in the hospital car park, only to realise later that I had no money to get the car out later. The Dr was very helpful and eventually prescribed a topical antibiotic so that I don't need to dose him up. Fortunately, I am lucky enough to have a friend who lives directly opposite the exit to the car park, so she gave me the cash to get out, and I finally got the kids to bed at 9pm. Phew.

So, the kitchen people come to start fitting the kitchen on Monday (yippppeeee!) and hopefully in a couple of weeks the house might be close to resembling normality. Nyle's birthday is next Thursday so we will have to try and arrange a family get together at my Mother-in-law's (well, she would be MIL if I was married...) because there is no way we could invite people here, but at least he should be mostly spot free by then, poor lad.

So, the kids are doing ok, the house is nearly finished, and I will soon be able to have more than just our bedroom to camp out and eat in. Can't wait! Have also been eBaying like mad to get rid of some of the stuff I have been storing, so have made some cash there, too. All coming together quite well, but where do the days go?

Hope everyone else is doing well and I promise to catch up properly, but probably not until January. See you then!