Brock and Zac – update to 19 Apr 08

Apologies to everybody for the lack of photos last week. I will try to make up for it this week.It’s been a bit of a hectic week. The boys had a bit of a shocker week last week and were waking approx every 2 hours. I was trying to hold off on feeding them til 3 hours which made it quite a demanding day for me, and distressing cos they would cry a lot from waking up until I fed them. I really don’t like it when they cry and I can’t settle them. Friday was a particularly bad day but Dale and I had booked in to go out to dinner with Maree and Justin and it was very nice to be out for a few hours. Boris and Leonie came down and looked after the boys and Samantha. Leonie commented on how unsettled the boys were which made me feel that it wasn’t all in my head. They do seem to have got a bit better this week and have gone back to about 3 hourly feeds which does make things a lot easier for me. I know it’s not all about me, but rather about the boys, however when I am well rested it is a lot easier to manage.

I took the boys up to PMH on Monday so that the surgeon could have a look at Brock’s hernia. The doctor was actually able to push the bowel back up into the stomach area while I watched. That was a bit weird. We are now just waiting to hear from the hospital to see when he can have the operation. The doctor put it down as urgent, which means within 30 days, so hopefully we will hear any day now. The boys were very good. I fed them both at the hospital and then they slept the whole way home. As I was walking back to the car this older man started talking to me. He was a teacher and was chatting how much fun some of his kids had in his class who were idential twins. We have so much to look forward to with the tricks I am sure they are going to play on us.

The weeked here was quite warm. Saturday it got to 30 degrees and Sunday 28 degrees. Maree and Samantha were feeling the heat. On Saturday Maree took Samantha up to Aqua Jetty and they spent a couple of hours in the pool. Samantha enjoyed herself very much. While they were there Dale and Justin were up at the block chopping down a tree in the back yard and there will be more on that in the house update.

The boys are starting to spend more time awake as they are getting older. I’ve started giving them some awake time in the afternoons. Here’s a photo of them on there play mat that mum sent over. You can see in the photo how much they have grown.

On Tuesday (15 Mar) I went down to the beach in the afternonon and met up with Maree, Justin and Samantha. We went and had an ice cream and here is a photo of Samantha holding Zac. She also held Brock but I wasn’t able to get a photo of her with Brock as I was helping her to hold him up without him falling over.

We also got a photo of Samantha sitting on the front of the pram while the boys were in it. Hopefully you all enoy it.

Ciao for now D & E and the boys