Friday 1st April

Well what a tiring couple of days it's been. William seems to have caught a cold/cough, is possibly teething and is pooing for england all at once! Of course, we're slightly paranoid after being told we have to be careful while he's on the steroids because they will suppress his immune system. We've been checking his temperature several times a day on alert for anything over 38. Earlier this evening we got a reading of 38 but before panicking and calling the hospital (as we were told to do) we waited half an hour and checked again by which time it'd gone down. Think he was a bit warm from just coming out the car!

Yesterday William would not go to sleep in the day at all no matter what I tried. Being a poorly baby with no sleep is not a good mixture so we had lots of tears yesterday afternoon and evening. Thankfully he went to sleep about 7. We then barely heard from him all night apart from the odd cough. We decided to let him sleep this morning to catch up but by ten he was still fast asleep so we got him up for a feed. He then continued to pretty much sleep all day apart from when he would barely wake up to make little poorly person whimpering noises. His cold has been a bit better today then yesterday but his cough has been worse and his nappy activity is definitely worse! Boy am I fed up of the smell of poo today! He's just going down for the night and usually stays asleep once put to bed so hopefully after a good nights sleep he'll feel a bit better. If he doesnt improve much tomorrow we might call the ward just to make sure they're not worried because of the steroids.

On an extra note, we think Max is turning into our own little Skippy the bush kangaroo. He has been known to sit and cry next the pushchair when William is in it and stirs as if to tell us that William has woken up. This evening Steve heard Max whining to went looking for him. He found him in William's room sitting next to the cot so Steve had heard him through the baby monitor. William had fallen off his baby pillow and although he was still asleep it was as if Max had seen him move and was telling us. Clever little chappy! Can't train him to stay off the sofas when we're out though so maybe not that clever. No sooner have I typed that than the same sort of thing happened again. We heard William stir on the monitor then heard Max whining on the monitor. We went upstairs to find Max sitting by the cot waiting for us expectantly so I lifted Max up to show him William was ok.

Anyway, here's the photos now...

Stretching out in his cot

Playing on his new surf board