Olly at the Paediatrician

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Today was Olly’s second visits to Mr Jones with reference to his fevers. Typically, he has only had two fevers since the last visit three months ago, and neither of them were full power fevers. We are beginning to think that he is growing out of them….Hopeful thinking maybe…

Mr Jones advised us that the blood tests that they ran from the blood that they took following the last appointment showed that all the white blood cells were back in the right place, although there was still a test showing inflammatory markers. Consequently, he asked for more blood to be taken today for further testing of this – to check that these markers were now gone from his blood. So, we had to struggle with Olly to get a vial of blood from him again today – he was not pleased with this proposal when he realised what it was that we were doing 🙁

We will get an appointment in 4 months and his HIB immunisation levels are not high enough, so we will get an appointment request from our GP to head in for a further immunisation.

Afternoon at Cannon Hall Farm

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We spent this afternoon at Cannon Hall Farm in South Yorks – once again we braced the weather and we got away with it 🙂  We had a lovely lunch in their little cafe and then played on the kids climbing equipment.

Then, incredibly, the boys who have shown NO interest in animals recently ran around trying to show us the animals – they had a great time.

We can also report that Oliver is as good as potty trained – he has not had an accident in as many days and is now pretty regularly taking himself off to the potty 🙂

YAY !!!

Fantastic afternoon at Sundown Adventureland

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We decided to head out to the Sundown Adventureland yesterday morning, so we got the boys some fast food from their favourite golden arches outlet and set off. They ate in the car to maximise time 🙂

We arrived at around 13:30 so had about 4 hours at our disposal.

The weather was just right for the trip as it was lovely and warm with no rain – that’s right, we managed to avoid the rain for a day!!!!

The boys had a fantastic time playing in the various huge sandpits and enjoying the rides that they had. The only disappointment on the day was that the new part of the park (Angry Birds) was not yet complete although we did not know of its existence at all until we arrived. a great excuse to go back later in the year maybe 🙂

The indoor play centre that they were building on our last trip there was complete so the boys played for 30 minutes in there – a nice jungle and monkey theme makes for a fun setup, and the mega slides were a real hit for the boys.

Surprisingly the river tub ride was a real hit – surprising because there are multiple places where we all got squirted with water – they both loved it – Olly wanted a second go although by the time we got round for a second go, they were closing for the day 🙁

We are planning more such trips out with the boys over the summer and we must remember to post a postcard to school each time – we forgot on our first outing 🙁

Next stop…. ThomasLand at the Drayton manor Park on Tuesday next week – have actually saved over 50UKP by booking one week in advance online….

P.T Day 8…

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As stated earlier we have had one accident today already, and while he is definitely able to go multiple hours without needing to use the toilet, bringing a games console into the mix is just dangerous.  It seems that his memory chips are all removed and he just forgets that he will probably need to go to the toilet at some point.  The main issue that we see at this point is that he genuinely does not seem overly bothered when he does wee in his pants.

Maybe this will change as and when he does it out and about.

 

Thinking of heading to Thomasland tomorrow as a special treat for the boys – Oliver particularly wants to go.  Hopefully the weather will be up to it…

Tina in for surgery … gulp!

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Simon has just dropped Tina off with Grant at GHL bodyworks in Ossett – she has begun to shed her lacquer on the rear bumper behind the passenger wheel, and hence is beginning to look a little unloved :-(.  Grant is going to take the bumper off and re-spray it to get it looking like new again.  She will be back later this week or early next with a nicely polished derriere 🙂