Joshua is teething again. We had a long weekend this past weekend which was great except that Josh was rather miserable. He moaned and cried at just about anything. Poor little guy must have been in some pain. He is off his food and has these little red spots around his mouth and cheeks plus disturbed sleep during the night. All of these were the same symptoms of the last teething time. I can see two white mounds forming on his bottom jaw on either side of his two
existing teeth. So far he has 6 teeth and it will be 8 when these 2 cut - though that may be only in a couple of weeks time.
But other than this he is happy. We went to Canal Walk shopping centre on Saturday for most of the day. The kids were brilliant (even teething Josh). Mr Price has a designated Kids shop where they have a mini jungle gym and the kids can play with toys etc. So my 2 love this as it gives them a break from shopping boredom. Josh is adventurous and wants to climb everything in sight. No fear what so ever, so despite the break he did have a few tears from a fall or two. But they
don't last long. Of course once we decided that we had had enough Josh was having none of it. We called him and he just says 'No' and pretends to not hear anything more. I picked him up much to his disgust and he gave me a big tantrum and did not want to go in his pram again. He made his body ridged which made it
difficult to strap him in. Little guy is clever already!!!! He moaned for sometime after. Later he performed a very similar tantrum.........hopefully when he turns 2 they wont be worse.
I had a bad night with Josh due to his new teeth. He woke crying at about 10pm, though I was not yet in bed. He cried for sometime till he settled again and then I just sat on the couch with him till I went to bed. He woke a few more times during the night but he went back down again once I gave him his dummy again. Though by 5am he was having no more sleep and once he had his (early) morning bottle I let him lie with me in bed. He spent the next hour singing. Really sweet though not really when trying to get some sleep. Josh seems to love music and picks up a tune very easily. Anything that makes a noise is attractive to him. He found the music keyboard and knows which button to press for the tunes. He will dance and hum along to the music.
Stefi is funny - she has an imaginary Grandma (as well as a vivid imagination) who she talks to all the time.
Wherever we go or whatever we do with her she will tells us that he Grandma does so and so. Anyways we were in another shop and there was a woman shopping and she had already taken notice of us and smiled at Josh. So
Stef pipes up loudly and tells me 'When I was at my Grandma's house, she chopped off her fingers' Both Jay and I say 'Oh' with very little expression. (She makes up so many stories and some of them rather
outrageous.) Well the woman looks none too pleased with us and
Stefi. She must have thought us awful parents for taking little interest in this hideous story.
Before Josh woke and was singing, I woke from a nightmare. I dreamt that we were home (though not the house we are living now - looked like the
Newlands house I grew up in) Some men broke into the house, and Jay was sitting at the kitchen table with a man. (I think he was the leader of the gang). I shouted at the men to go away and leave us alone. Jay then shushed me to be quiet. They ransacked the place and during this time I wanted to know where
Stefi was but I had to remain quiet. When they left
Stefi came running to me and I realised that these people had been keeping her as a hostage. Though she seemed fine and happy to see me. Well I woke with a big fright and really battled to sleep again. Very scary dream. I even lay there thinking that I am being selfish wanting to live in SA and that my kids are not safe and that we should leave again. Perhaps we need to be more vigilant as it is easy to forget how things are here especially living in a security complex, one gets a false sense of secuirty.
