A lot of nothing and some updates with pics!

I mentioned in a previous post that Zach fell in the bath, breaking his cute little front tooth in half...I still feel incredibly terrible about the whole thing but slightly better since we took a trip to the dentist yesterday and 'made it all better'. She checked that he hadn't pushed it in too and no thankfully he hadn't. After pulling up at the hospital - where the dentist is located - I decided to take some before shots before. You know remember the incident but its not like I'm going to forget really is it. I'm going to be looking at that darned half tooth for at least the next 3 - 4 years!

Not that you can't see it but here it is a little closer....

Really he and lucky he didn't knock it right out!

OK, that's done. I'll get an after shot soon. Nicely smoothed off, no more pain while breastfeeding! Yes, my dear sweet little boy still breastfeeds. Its not like I haven't tried to wean, Anna self weaned at 18 months. Zachary just will not give it up without a fight and right now I'm in no mood for fighting. I figure once a day (rarely twice) is OK right now, he always has a drink before bed at night. His 'booby time' as he calls it....lol.

Now onto more bad news. Zachary was supposed to be getting his AFO's this week. I was really looking forward to it, kind of. Yesterday I got a phone call from Stuart Kerr to tell me that PADP haven't sent him confirmation yet that our funding has been approved! Ahhhhh! So that means it is going to be at least another month before he will have them now. I'm calling them on Monday to inquire about it and also ask about our bath seat. I got a letter nearly 2 months ago letting me know that funding was approved and the chair would be out to us (or our O/T) shortly. It still hasn't arrived.....

Good news this time.....Zachary's speech has really taken off! I'm over the moon at how much he talks now and how much clearer he is! He now sings 'Twinkle Star', 'Old MacDonald' and 'The Tickle Song' along with some others and counts too (he gets to about 8)! We are also hearing some of the alphabet - up to about G. I'm stoked! Although Anna had no speech problems I'm also pretty impressed with her vocabulary and counting. My sweet little babies are growing up way to fast! Were did these little babies go?! (Time for a bit of reminiscing....)

I will one day, hopefully soon, do a little post about how Zach and Anna came into this world. About the 48 days we spent in NICU/SCN. The ups and the downs of their first few weeks of life. It still is hard for me write about this sometimes.

Ventilated for the first 24 hours....

Day 3 and Zach is trialed off CPAP for a few hours...

Unfortunately by that evening he was back on it.....Spending the next 5 days on CPAP before finally 'breathing easy'....

Miss Anna - day 2. Anna was never ventilated.....

Day 3....

Day 13 and I'm finally able to hold my two little bubs together....

Anna and a horrible picture of Mummy at nearly 4 weeks old....



And Zachary (with Mummy looking horrible again) at about the same time...



Oh I don't miss those days - life 24/7 in the NICU & SCN, but I miss
those days when there were so little if you know what I mean.....

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Mitchell is with Brett at the moment and will be back tomorrow. I've enjoyed the peace and quite but I miss my boy like crazy! He has started Preschool again and loves it.....

Lastly please excuse the quality of the photos and the randomness of this post in places....lol.