Sooooooooo tired!

Hello, well Lewis had quite a bad night, neither of us got very much sleep. He was coughing alot, and his antibiotics have affected his tummy (stinky nappies!) and dealing with that in the middle of the night is not fun!! We did go to group at DRI, after we had a lovely chat with the volunteer ladies at the front desk at DRI main entrance who Lewis loves to make eyes at even though he cannot blow kisses at then anymore. We met Marie (Bluebell Wood) and went along to the group. Lewis enjoyed singing, making a picture and a picture frame, and his favourite favourite part of group - the touch screen computer! We are hoping to be able to buy Lewis one of these for his new room when we have saved enough money. Parents are encouraged (what a nice word - Rachel and Jill do you agree that you encourage?! lol) to leave the children at the Monday group so I went for a walk with Daniel's mum and dad, Karen and Craig, and Daniel's sister Heather. Daniel did so well today - he has a walking frame, but today he was walking on his own! He was wobbly, but his centre of balance was good and Kath (physio) was happy for him to keep trying! Well done Daniel! Chanel (who goes to Tuesday group) is in hospital this week in Sheffield - big hugs Chanel, we miss you, and hope you are feeling better very soon. After group, we said goodbye to Marie and we drove to see Granny and Grandad (Maz and Col) for a couple of hours. Lew watched some Cbeebies and then fell asleep in his chair! At 3pm I had to disturb him as we had been invited to Jin Qui and her family's Chinese New Year celebration meal. When we arrived, there was a table completely covered with dishes ready to be cooked and another table set out for everyone to sit and enjoy the food. There was gorgeous fish, tofu, prawns, cockles (I think), mussels, whelks (I think), lots of vegetables and then some gorgeous sweet fruits which were like miniature lychees and are called 'Dragon Eyes'. Jin Qui was very keen for Samuel to come, so James dropped off George and Samuel and they also enjoyed the Chinese feast. I was very impressed with them both - they made a keen effort to use chopsticks and to try most of the food. About 5pm, Jin Qui was very worried about Sahn as she was not responsive and was having trouble breathing and had discharge from her nose which was a bad colour. So I took Jin Qui and Sahn to the hospital (DRI assessment unit) and after seeing the doctor, Sahn is to stay in tonight. She was very poorly and I was very upset to see her like that and not to be able to help. I hope you will all pray for her tonight and for Jin Qui to continue to have the strength to care for her gorgeous little girl. Lew came with me to the hospital (to see all his friends!) as James had plans to go out this evening to a Gentlemen's Evening so he collected George and Samuel from Jin Qui's house when I went to the hospital. I took some very cute photos of Lewis today - Granny bought him some long socks - they come up to his knees (well almost over his knees!) and unfortunately he had an accident of the nappy kind at Granny's house so he had no trousers on, so I took some pics of him with his cute little knees and his long socks! I will put them on the blog tomorrow. Lewis fell asleep in his chair again (!) at the hospital which is not surprising since he had an unsettled night, and it was also past his bedtime when we left, but I wanted to make sure Sahn was going to be admitted overnight before I left Jin Qui. When we got home, I took Lew straight up to his room and got him ready for bed and I could tell he was definitely glad to be in bed!! I missed a birthday yesterday - HAPPY BIRTHDAY JONATHAN 14 now!!!! I hope you had a lovely day and I hope I can get across to see you all soon as I am sure Lewis is missing Alfie and Spencer (chihuahuas) and Hollie (border collie)! Tomorrow, we have group in the morning (IF we can possibly get out of bed before midday!) and then in the afternoon we have musical minis. Jin Qui, Sahn and Jane were coming after for pancakes - YES ITS PANCAKE DAY TOMORROW! - but with Sahn being in hospital now, I think that will be cancelled, but I will see if I can go and collect Jane and bring her as she has been so excited about coming to our house to visit and she loved playing with Samuel and George today. Whenever she talks to Lewis, he always has the biggest smile! This evening at the hospital, Jin Qui was talking to him while she massaged his hands, and he gave her the biggest smiles and was trying to talk to her! It was so wonderful to see! Today in the post Lewis received 3 postpal items. A letter from America, A birthday card, and a parcel. The parcel is a bday pressie I think so we will save this and the bday card until next week (cant believe its Lewis' 3rd birthday next week!) but I will open the US letter for him tomorrow as we havent had chance this evening. But for those who have sent these 3 items to us that arrived today, I hope you read this blog so that I can tell you how lovely it is to receive letters and cards and of course gifts in the post and how much Lewis enjoys 'helping' to open envelopes and packages! I just want to say hello to some people who have been neglected recently. We may have been quiet (busy busy busy) but you are always in our thoughts: Yolanda, Stephen, Naomi, Joshua and Joel; Angela, Ashley and Hannah; Lesley and Kevin, Liam, Callum and Tobey; Annmarie, Savannah and Shannon. Far away you may be, but we still love and miss you all! And Laura - you are totally the best and I am looking forward to all your updates!