Goodbye Neurologist

Ciara has been discharged (finally) from neurology. We had been going back for 6 monthly control EEG's and developmental checks at our local paediatric neurology practice, following both girls being put onto phenoba.rbitol in the weeks after they were born. They were only on it for 6 weeks thank goodness and we have had no signs of any seizures since they came off it, but as they were so preemie and had suspected seizures initially the neurologists wanted to follow them up closely.

The doc still wants to see Enya in December as she still sees "deficits" although she was very surprised to hear Enya was still recieving physio. I'm just really hoping we don't need to do another EEG as the girls are getting harder and harder to contain for the 8 minutes recording time- Ciara had hands like an octopus trying to get at all the wires on her head, Enya was calmer but still not easy.

I'm trying to decide if I should tempt fate and mention how long we've been vomit free (excluding the tummy bug vomits which don't count!) but I think I'll keep quiet, let sleeping dogs lie and all that!! Enya is losing all interest in her bottles (I know I should stop giving them but until last week they were not drinking enough from a sippy during the day for me to feel comfortable doing that, they also only drink water from their sippys). I think I'll try dropping the evening bottle first as Enya shows the least interest in that one, although we may have trouble convincing Ciara of this plan, she will quite happily drink 300ml from her bottle in one sitting.

Cooking lessons

Z is determined that C and E are not going to be as handicapped in the kitchen as their mother is. I can only cook if I've got a recipe to follow, Z cooks more from instinct and experience. One guess hwo usually cooks in our household!
Enya learning to make rhubarb crumble Bed shots
Ciara Enya, she always pulls off her left sock during her naptime

See they do wear dresses

Ciara pretty in pink

Enya pretty in green

My family all think that C and E never wear dresses, I would just like to prove that occasionally (okay, very occasionally) they do get all dolled up. Thanks mom for the gorgeous dresses!

During our fantastic summer weather we've also been playing with water, C and E love to play in buckets of water, we just have to strip them after as they are absolutely soaked by the end of the fun. Our turkish holiday starts in less than 2 weeks, I'm very excited to see how they react to the sea!

Ciara in her sun hat

4th post for today

Don't forget to look down and see/read the rest ;0)


I love these next two portaits
Enya

Ciara

In the rocker

Confetti queen- paper is for making confetti out of.....

....and quilts are for pulling behind you

Pictures continued..

Summer, although Enya doesn't look to pleased about it. This is her face she pulls everytime she doesn't get her own way (usually when I refuse to pick her up)


The face I much prefer with a smile on


Jam faces



It was so warm we stripped them down to their nappies, I love summer!!

My 2 week break in pictures

Our kitchen wall being ripped down as a result of the leak from hell

The girla are playing together more and more, here playing "duz" where they bump heads together, don't ask me ask my husband he started this one!

Ciara has learnt to take off her PJ's

Enya has a new friend, her duck. She loves running with the duck literally flying behind her. Unfortunately he is already looking very battered as he gets dragged along outside and rarely with his wheels on the ground. For the first few days we had him he also didn't keep his head on much of the time, thankfully my father fixed him up so the head now at least stays on even if he does have torticullis!

Playing on mommy's bed (the sofa) They can now both climb on and off the sofa so another safe spot is gone. We used to often leave thing out of reach on the sofa much to our darlings frustration, no more though. They have both tumbled off the sofa at various times but still go absolutely wild throwing themselves around and jumping on the sofa when they are up. Needless to say we are trying to discourage them from playing on the sofa.

To be continued......

Refreshed and renewed

I've had a lovely long break while my folks were here, I feel as if I've had a holiday. My parents kept taking the girls out for walks down to our local bakery or into the forest which gave me all this free time to do a "little" project I've been wanting to get to for ages. Ciara is growing out of her sleeping bags (we have about 8 of them and need them all as the night time deluges continue) so I've been wanting to put some duvets on the girls' beds. Unfortunately all the duvet sets I've found here are either hideous or hideously expensive so instead I made my own.
Work in progress

the finished product

I know it's really bright but so is their room. Two made and two to go! I've even had a friend ask me to make her one for her daughters bed in the same colours!