We had a great run of really hot weather this last week or so.  Today is the first day of sub 20 degree heat and the first day of real clouds in the sky since last Friday – almost a whole week of Floridian weather (OK so not quite, but almost 🙂 )

The network in ForkHall failed today for a few hours – it just had to be at a time when Elliot wanted to watch Bolt on the PS3 – he seems unconcerned with the fact that things would not work – it was seemingly completely unacceptable that he could not watch the movies when HE wanted to.  The fact that he has already watched it once today was also not the point, apparently.

Anyway, the fault was finally traced down to a overheated network switch in the conservatory, and as soon as something communicated to it, it somehow managed to prevent all other network devices in the network from communicating with *anything* at all.

Vicky believes that Oliver smiled at her today – but as she told Simon when he thought something similar at the weekend, “it will be wind”.  Strangely Simon’s suggestion is hugely ridiculous because he “definitely smiled”.  Women !!

This must have been the warmest weekend this year – not a cloud in the sky on either day.

Simon (of course) managed to burn his chest and shoulders, oh yes, and his gut 🙂 on Saturday.  Will he be doing it again? Probably..

We managed to get TWO BBQ’s in as well 🙂

We tried to take the boys shopping on Saturday afternoon, but Elliot kicked of in Next as he wanted all of the JCB toys they had and had what was probably the biggest whinging fit he has ever had – Simon ended up putting him back in the car and waiting for Vicky.  Only to Find that Oliver decided that it was time to eat – yes, it was a short lived shopping excursion 🙁

We took Elliot swimming today for the first time in a few weeks – he loved it.

This weekend, Elliot has found the humour involved in wetting others with a quantity of water from say, a small jug.  Pepsi, Max and Daddy have all been tests for Elliot to soak from a distance and then where possible from close up.

It seems the some of the clothes that we have purchased recently for Oliver will have to go back – the little monkey has been growing fairly significantly 🙂 Now he has the taste for scoobies, there is apparently little stopping him.

The midwife came around this morning, confirmed that Oliver has put on a further 200g in two days and has officially discharged him, so we do not need to sit in waiting for the midwives any more – hooray 🙂  Over to the health visitors.

Oliver is also now signed up with the dentist and is officially the youngest patient on their books.

Vicky and Oliver went back in to Pinderfields today to sort out the blood tests (again) and it seems that the staff were ready willing AND able on this occasion – in and done in under 30 minutes – hooray !!

Only to find Oliver wouldn’t leave until he had been fed 🙂

Vicky was advised that if we didn’t hear from the hospital today, then we would be in the clear.  Incidentally Oliver put on a further 100g (or so – midwife’s scales reckoned a further 130g and the hospital ones a further 80g) and so the new regime of breast milk and then a top up if he requests it seems to be working well 🙂  So he is now 8lbs flat which is a real result.

Elliot went to Grandmas for a swim this afternoon so is full of it presently – although is very tired – we have put him down for a sleep at 7pm and hope that he gets more than 12hours kip tonight.

Simon and Elliot are due to visit the dentist in the morning, and we will see if we can register Oliver while we are there

The midwife requested that we took Oliver in to see a paediatrician just to be safe – since he has only gained 10g since the last midwife check.  So, we were in Pinderfields shortly after 13:30 on Sunday – we waited until 16:30 before we actually got to see the doctor (pretty frustrating really) but they decided all looked OK, but that they would take a blood sample and do some checks against it – to ensure Oliver’s sodium levels were OK.  So, we were then allowed to leave and that the results would be back in an hour or two, and that somebody would call us.

We ended up calling back at 17:00 today (so 24 hours later) so see what the status was – seems that we had been forgotten about and now we have to go back tomorrow (or Vicky and Oliver do) and go through the whole ordeal again.  Great.  The efficiency of the NHS never seems to surprise us.

On other matters Simon has dragged most of the ivy off the fence in the back garden and has managed to (shock) NOT damage himself in the process.  He usual receives some form of gardening injuries whenever he is doing anything of value in the garden 🙂