WOW how big are everyone's babies! Zara is tiny compared to that! And there I was thinking she is tall for her age. Zara was measured and weighed one day before her birthday and measured 76cm and weighed 8.69kg. It still makes her borderline underweight but there is not much I can do. She eats like a horse and still has a bottle at night of 240ml but she just doesn't put on weight. I will keep her on formula for another year I think. I switched Wolf on his 1st birthday straight to cows milk in a glass cause he was always solid, but with that skinny little princess I would feel bad to do so.
Well, we had a quiet birthday with just my parents. We were going to have my sister-in-law over with her kids (or alternatively go to their place) but she was having contractions and ended up in hospital that night. She didn't have the baby until yesterday though. (Lucky... I would have felt bad for Zara if she had to share her birthday with her cousin - that would have been one endless debate about where the grandparents had to go each year on the 23rd)
Zara is walking lots but I haven't bought "proper" shoes. I bought her some boots with a rubber sole seeing that it's pouring rain here and the soft shoes she had got soaking wet in this weather. She loves her shoes. I think we will go get her some real shoes soon. Maybe when Nonno is here (DH's dad) as he also was there for Wolf's first pair of shoes. Might be a nice sentiment.
We have just been so unlucky healthwise lately. After both the kids had tonsillitis in Australia, Zara came down with diarrhea, then Wolf came down with it, then Zara got it AGAIN. And it was a really nasty one with vomitting and watery poos that went through ALL the layers of clothing (and there is a lot of layers in winter in Switzerland) 5 times alone in the a.m. I was doing 4 loads of washing every day. Then I got struck down by it and got quite badly dehydrated. Ended up having the shakes and unable to get up. DH got some electrolyte stuff and that helped a lot but man, did I feel bad for 24 hours. After drinking 2 l of that stuff, I still didn't pee for the next 18 hours. Scary. Well, finally their stool went hard again and I was breathing a sigh of relief when suddenly Zara broke out in a high fever. It was 39.5 on Saturday and then reached 40.5 on Sunday. Ended up at the children's hospital with her because i was so worried and it turns out she has an ear infection. Poor thing. I get home and my mom tells me Wolf has a fever. So Monday morning he is at 39.7 and I'm at the paed. Influenza. Great. So everyone is feverish, cranky and clingy and I feel like I'm coming down with something myself. *sigh*
Sorry for the bigh whinge but it's just like we are cursed at the moment. We have just been sick non stop for the last 5 weeks!
ANYWAY
hope everyone is well... and as to baby no. 3... I think I will start seriously thinking about it in June! Oh that's so close! Just 4 months!
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