hi katie and snowy and everyone. Poor Olly has had a few hard weeks with a bad cold and an injury but has coped by having 2 daytime sleeps instead of one, on his initiative. clever boy. the story of his injury goes like this:
olly got his little face smashed up on the bus! The saddest thing is he LOVED the bus until now, now he’s scared of it (and so am I!). it was an old style bus that isn't wheelchair or pram friendly (downright unfriendly). To get on i had to let olly out of his pram, he went on and found a seat. then the fat bloated mean driver just sat there as i struggled to fold the pram with a newborn strapped to my chest
it's an impossibly big heavy pram so i couldn't lift it, a granny came and helped and together we got it thru the door, up the steps and into the aisle. But there's no space for luggage and the aisles really narrow so we had to drag it bump it into the passengers all the way to the back and then drag/hoist it up into a seat (really difficult even if you don't have a baby on your chest) at which point the bus takes off, olly falls off his seat (i'm still in the aisle, 2 meters from him, trying to get there) and he fell face first into the floor/step
and comes up screaming with blood spitting everywhere! i run to him screaming and crying too, grab him in a hug with mylo squished in between us and continue screaming everytime i look at his face. His lip swelled up 3 times the size instantly. So I’m on the floor holding olly, screaming hysterically, i cant stop crying, a couple of women come to help, including the granny, to help calm me down and make sure i dont squash mylo in my panic. They get us to a seat and put a tissue to olly’s face, there’s.blood everywhere, they ask where I want to get off the bus because I’ve lost all concept of where I am. All I know is my baby is hurt and my heart is breaking. Luckily mylo is ok, sleeping like a baby in his baby byorn. we get off the bus at the drs clinic and ask to be seen, crying the whole time and causing a scene in the waiting room. The Dr sees us quick and gives anti biotics and reassurance that it'll heal ok. After that I took him to daycare (walking distance from dr) but then i wasn;t brave to get another old style bus as I still had mylo in the pram, so how do I get home? i waited at bus stops 3 times but not one bus was pram friendly so i refused to get on. i ended up walking home (2 hrs in the midday heat, no hat or sunnies). this all happened 4 days ago and the swelling has finally gone down, but his top lip still looks bigger than usual. he's ok tho, they're built tough these kids!

otherwise he is doing really well with having a baby brother, is gentle and considerate (at his age!). he is, however, a little needy at the moment, bursting into tears at the slightest reason, but i figure he's just making himself more noticable now that theres competition for our attention. his language is much the same... he comes out with new words in English all the time, and understands whatever we say in Indonesian, but only says a few words at the moment. no words yet for wee or poo, so no where near toilet training. that's ok. no rush. toilet traning sounds like an extra work load for me anyway, so it can wait hehehe.