We had a busy long weekend, visiting with different friends. On Sunday we made a fire to make a green bean and lamb pot. My friend and I quickly popped out to the shop while the little ones stayed with daddy and our friend's husband. While we were away a piece of wood fell from the barbecue and before anyone could stop her, Kiddy#1 picked it up to put it back into the fire. She burnt her hand with the hot piece of wood and now has three blisters to show for it. One blister is nearly the size of her thumb. It was very sore on Sunday, but by yesterday her hand was feeling much better again. She still doesn't want to use it, but at least it is not throbbing anymore.
After months of realizing that Kiddy#1 doesn't talk as fluently as her classmates and two months ago getting the impression that she might be getting teased as school, we called in the help of a speech therapist to do an analysis on her. To make a long story short, after being referred to ENT and the paediatrician, we realized that she had enlarged tonsils and adenoids which were infected and had to be removed. There was a build-up of fluid behind her ear drums because of it which caused hearing loss. So they also inserted grommets to drain the fluid from her ears. Ever since the operation her hearing has improved, but seeing that for who-knows-how-long, she couldn't hear properly she taught herself to ignore people talking as she could not control the volume as she could do with a Television for example. So now we have a discipline problem as she doesn't listen even though she can hear. Some days are better than others though. It is amazing how one day she can be as good as gold and the next day you cannot get anything out of her.
I feel so guilty for not realizing sooner that she might have a hearing problem, but the possibility never even crossed our minds. We also had to change our home language to English as she got confused with our actual home language and English and spoke it as one language, using more English words. Most of her/our friends are English and most of the kids in the school she goes to are English. So she basically decided for herself that English is her language and for her sake we had to make the change. Within the first two days of switching over to English the change in her vocabulary was astonishing. It was a hard decision to make, but we are glad that we did, because it definitely benefited her.
For the first time since the 1st of April, Kiddy#2 has been well, not having flue or tonsillitis, etc. for longer than a week. She must have been to the GP at least eight times since April. It is such a relief that she is feeling better. Maybe because we had a warm week last week and Spring is approaching.
Kiddy#2 had her 12months vaccination this month (about 2/3 weeks after turning 1), and weighs 12.25kg (27lb). She weighed nearly 4.2kg (9.25lb) at birth so is a big baby. I was so surprised that she didn't even cry when she was given her vaccination. Babies are so brave. She started walking at 11 months and is running around like a pro! Almost every Mom hopes that her child's first word would be "Mama", but thanks to Kiddy#1 constantly pretending that she is a puppy and 'barking' at us, Kiddy#2's first word was "Woof"!
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