Day 110

I thought I'd try Morgan on a crumpet at breakfast as I'm sure DD was happily eating them around his age. He seemed to really like it once he got over the shock of it not being toast or banana bread lol. He didn't have much of it though and dropped most of it on the floor, fortunately he also had banana porridge so he didn't go hungry.

The 4 of us went out to a local italian restaurant for lunch, always fun going to a restaurant and declaring that in a party of 4, 1 of us can't have wheat or dairy and 2 can't have dairy and soya. The staff there are used to us as we go fairly frequently and there's always a couple of choices on the menu for us. We took a jar of ham and pasta for Morgan but ordered him something from the children's menu anyway as we thought it would be nice for him to pick at it. Both babies had bread sticks followed by cod goujons, chips and garden peas. Little lady refused the fish and peas but ate all her chips, surprise surprise. Little man ate half the jar of food but still picked up some chips off his plate and ate them, he also had a few bites of the cod goujons with a little encouragement. Both children really enjoy going out for lunch and its a pleasure taking them out. They both enjoy the change of scenery at meal time, watching other diners and I think just seeing lots of people eating food that they aren't familiar with must encourage them to try it for themselves eventually.

Morgan had a doctors appointment after lunch as I'm worried he's been so ill for so long. Typically he had a good day today, no temperature, minimal snot, good mood and his cough had magically disappeared the moment we entered the surgery. The doctor did check him over though and said that other than a cold he is ok.  She also said that if he had a problem with his immune system one indicator would be failure to thrive, as he's eating well, gaining weight and following the same centile since birth he's doing just fine. It would seem he's just been unfortunate to have picked up everything that's been going round, apparently it will help to build his immune system for later life but its hard for us all at the moment.

By dinner time Morgan was hungry, tired and miserable, its the first day we've not had to dose him up with pain relief in quite a while so he did really well. We gave him some infant paracetamol then fed him beef casserole followed by rice pudding. He had about half of each before giving up, I think he just felt poorly as bedtime was approaching so just wasn't that interested.

As we've had a good day today, I really won't be surprised if he wakes up tomorrow poorly with something else. I just hope he doesn't as he really does deserve a break from it all. Despite everything he's been through, in the last week he's found his voice so our home is filled with the sound of toddler giggles and baby babble, lush! He's also discovered he can stand up on his own by holding onto the sofa, we have to put him there as he can't pull himself up yet but the smile on his face when he realises he's doing it himself is gorgeous.