18th November 2007
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Evan adores Izzy, I'm sure he wants his
own dog!
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Oh my! What a day... Evan and I spent the weekend with
my mum, which was great fun - she spoilt us and it was
lovely to spend some quality time with her. I had a home
football match to play in the afternoon, so we came home
Sunday morning just in time for me to drop Evan off at
home to be with Caroline and then I set off for
football. I managed the first half of the football game
before I was called out of the dressing room at half
time to see Caroline standing there without Evan. I
immediately asked where Evan was; I could see from her
face that something wasn't quite right. She informed me
that Evan was with our neighbour but we needed to take
him to hospital because he had a raisin stuck up his
nose. I was astonished - "how the hell did that happen?"
was my initial response.. I couldn't get my football
boots off quickly enough and just threw some clothes on
over my kit before racing home to Evan.
It didn't take us long to get to the hospital and I had
all these thoughts running through my head as to why it
happened and how the hell they were going to get it out.
It didn't take us long to be sent down to the Children's
A+E department and Evan was quite happy to play with all
the toys there.
The issues happened when the nurse called his name. He
would let her look up his nose but as soon as she went
near him with the claws, he freaked out.. I'm not
surprised, they were scary looking things and his nose
was very tiny in comparison. We tried to restrain him,
but this just made him panic more. She said we'd have to
wait up to 3 hours for a Doctor to see him and then they
would just get more people to pin him down. This thought
scared the hell out of me, I said "There must be another
way, he really doesn't want those claw things near him".
The nurse reappeared with a senior colleague and they
suggested a couple of things for me to try. I was
horrified - "Me?!?!?" I was the only person who could
try these techniques because I was related to him. First
we tried to cover his mouth and blow air up the
unobstructed nostril. We did this twice, which made him
sneeze. The raisin was still stuck, the second more
intrusive technique was to block the unobstructed
nostril and forcefully blow air into his mouth. This
scared me and I protested that surely you're only
supposed to do that to people who aren't breathing! They
insisted it was the only other way, so as required I
blew into his mouth, on the second attempt the raisin
flew out of his nose covering the side of my face with
baby nose gunk - euuww lovely, just what I needed... He
found the whole thing uncomfortable and it made him cry
a lot but we were glad to have the raisin out with his
cooperation.
Hopefully he will think twice about putting things up
his nose in the future... We've now got a handy tip for
all out friends with kids for if they ever experience
this. :)
11th November 2007
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Evan finally settles in the soft play
area with his friends.
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Evan had a birthday party to go to today. We travelled to
one of these giant indoor play centres in Newbury to
celebrate the 3rd birthday of a friend of his at nursery.
Evan seems to be a popular little boy at nursery as he keeps
getting invited to birthday parties.. :) I was a little
concerned when we went in because of the issues we have
getting him to do things, he gets really scared.. As
expected when all the other children ran onto the climbing
area, Evan just stood there refusing to go on. I even said I
would go with him, but he was not interested.. He just ran
around on the floor down below calling his friends names as
we all climbed the up the equipment..
I did manage to get him in the baby area which was for under
5's and eventually everyone decided to hang out in that area
so he was able to mix and play with his friends again. I'm
hoping he will grow out of this, but time and time again he
shows no sign of getting over whatever fear it is that he
has.. It's not like I don't take him to these places, we
often go to Snakes & Ladders (the closest to us) but even
then it can take a while to get him comfortable. I just know
he would love it if he'd get over what ever was stopping him
from doing it.
2nd November 2007
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Nice and cosy on the sofa.
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Today we went to see our neighbours as it was their
little girl's 2nd birthday. She was having a little
naked time before bed time when we arrived and I was
amazed to see that at the age of 2 already completely
potty trained - take notes Evan!? She was great, several
times she just wandered over to her potty and went
without even asking her parents. I think we need to
rethink the whole potty training issue with Evan, I'm
going to pick a weekend later in this month to just
really try to get him used to going all the time instead
of just the once and then expecting some kind of reward.
Evan was really shy at first when Amber wanted to play
and he just clung to me... Several times she tried to
sit on the sofa next to him and his response was "I
don't want to, I'm watching TV!", it was extremely funny
because there I was laughing at Evan telling this little
naked girl to go away - wonder if he'll say the same if
that happens in another 18 years or so :).
Once Amber had opened all the presents Evan started to
interact a little more, they played with her tea set at
her little children's table and chairs - very cute. By
the end of the night Evan was very relaxed that even he
decided to strip off and run around naked - he even used
the grown ups toilet!
Very enjoyable night, but I will miss our neighbours as
they are moving to a bigger house next week :(.
