Update on Finlay

Winter is always tough on small kids and Finlay especially. Last winter he spent over a month in hospital so we weren't looking forward to this winter. But despite a fairly wet and cold few months he has stayed remarkably healthy. It's now mid-August and so far we've only had two nights in hospital for the whole winter. He did start to lose a little weight but we put him on a new diet designed to fatten him up. We've been told to add cream and cheese and all the naughty things that we're normally told to avoid to his meals until he puts on weight. We had a clinic at the hospital yesterday and we're glad to say he is over 11kg for the first time.

Meanwhile he continues to develop well. He has a few words. Worryingly amongst his limited vocabulary, alongside the usual 'car' and 'dog' are slightly unconventional words for a 2 year old, such as 'pump' and 'drugs'! I suppose it was inevitable. Should make for an interesting time when we next go through security at the airport. A bag full of syringes and a 2yo shouting 'drugs'!

His feeding is still an issue but he is eating more. Just not enough to sustain himself yet so we will have the tube in his stomach for a while yet. The next stage is to replace the cumbersome tube with a little button type port which will mean no more long tube constantly hanging from his tummy and hence no more painful incidents with car seats. So one minor op in the coming months.

Other than that he is up and about. Here's a quick clip from the weekend.

Long Overdue Update

So it turns out we're pretty crap at keeping this blog up to date. No surprises there!!

It's been a long winter that is now starting to turn into spring so hopefully there will be lots more exciting adventures to keep you up to date with in the coming months as we get outside and be a bit more active than we have recently.

So here's a few photos from the last few months:

Back in April it was Finlay's 2nd birthday. Here's a photo of the brothers all eagerly awaiting the cake.

We took a day trip to Ferrymead and jumped on the trams and trains while Cameron tried his hand at some more sedate transport

Back in June Cameron, Ewan and I ran in the marathon in Christchurch. I ran the half marathon while the boys did 2.5K. Cameron sped round in 12 minutes while Ewan took a more leisurely jog round the course in 22 minutes but then he was one of the smallest. And as I had to run alongside him after my run I was glad he slowed down for the old man. Here's us showing off our medals.

Other than that the winter has been full of days indoors reading,

football in the park,

feeding the ducks

and the odd game of chess!