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little lost micaiah

timhu — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:21:17 +0000

We have a kids book called ‘Little Lost Rabbit’ that tells the story of a rabbit trying to find his way home. When Anna was away, Micaiah would grab this book every night and flip straight to the last page where the rabbit finds his mummy. Interesting thing is that this book isn’t a favourite of his, and he hasn’t picked it up since Anna returned.

potty training obstacles

timhu — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:05:55 +0000

Search for a potty during mid-year sales : Done.

Find resources to motivate potty using behaviour : Thomas ready to go!

Convince Micaiah to sit on the potty : … Looks like this is going to take a while …

micaiah in june

timhu — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 04:35:57 +0000

Nothing says June this year better than the World Cup – and Micaiah has learnt to hold a ball still on the ground and then kick it!

photo catchup: Micaiah in April and May

timhu — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:54:33 +0000

We’ve finally caught up! April was a dry month for photos because of all the havoc of croup and the general busyness with preaching – but May saw a very healthy crop capturing Micaiah’s developing ability to point, climb, play and hold.

[zenphotopress album=55 sort=random number=4]

parenting just got harder

timhu — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:05:51 +0000

Over this week Micaiah has suddenly become more opinionated and obstinate at times, both Anna and I had to discipline him on several occasions. He isn’t 2 yet!

photo catchup: Micaiah in March

timhu — Sat, 15 May 2010 04:14:21 +0000

It was in March that Micaiah discovered his love for dumplings – and thats a great God-send because up till then he hasn’t really enjoyed eating solids very much. A big thanks also to a few of the sisters who’s been make dumplings for him – we are very very very grateful!

photo catchup: Micaiah in Feb

timhu — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:59:14 +0000

February was a month of basking in the attention of our relatives.

http://www.hu.id.au/zenphoto/2010/2010_02_Micaiah/

photo catchup: Micaiah in Jan

timhu — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 05:11:05 +0000

January for Micaiah was a month of learning to climb, fun with his cousins and more teeth.

http://www.hu.id.au/zenphoto/2010/2010_01_Micaiah/

micaiah has ‘coop’

timhu — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:22:28 +0000

After 3 hours in the waiting room, thats what we thought the doctor said. Coop as in chicken coop?

We took Micaiah to Emergency yesterday evening when he woke up screaming – clocking a temperature of 39+. This was after a day of coughs (that led to vomiting), high temperature, diarrhea and refusal to eat/drink.

Later we verify that its croup – a viral infection that primarily effects the airways causing breathing difficulties. The pamphlet said (rather cryptically) that croup ‘can quickly become serious’ – I am glad we didn’t wait around at home and find out what that might mean.

So, a night/morning of firsts:

First time we force fed him 15ml of hydrolyte every 15 minutes using a syringe. It pains me to see him at his most distraught, and still forcing orange liquid into his mouth.
First time he had a xray, whilst I held him down on the table wearing a lead apron.
First time we all slept (at least try to) in the hospital as the doctors monitored his breathing. He was discharged at 3:30am this morning.

It dawned on me last night as I slipped in and out of consciousness on the chair beside the hospital bed that this in all likelihood won’t be the last time in our parenting careers =)

Thank God he is better now – the virus is still there (along with the vomiting and the diarrhea), but the fevers seem to have subsided. At least he is getting some milk in him, and hopefully the medicine will help him through tonight.

micaiah says mama and daddy

timhu — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:48:00 +0000

… except that he only says ‘mama’ when he wants something done (e.g. when he wants us to open a bottle screwcap) and we never use ‘daddy’ in our household – so its a real mystery as to what Micaiah means …