Hi!

Well, what a night we had! Louis started to get a runny nose yesterday so I thought another cold was on the way. He was pretty good though and went down for bed easily enough. He woke 45min with a croupy cough and it was soo bad. He was so miserable and just wanted cuddles. I managed to get him to sleep on me for another 30min but he kept waking with a start and was really struggling to breath. Of course this is the weekend I'm home alone and even my mum and sister are away on holiday! I didn't want to panic but thats hard when your home alone. Anyway, he kept dozing and waking really upset and distressed and then I could see his little throat just above his collarbone really sucking in to get breath. I decided at about 11.30pm to call the hospital and they told me to bring him in or if I wanted call an ambulance. I decided to drive him in as he was alright just finding it a bit of a strain. So, we went in and thought I'd have to wait for hours but luckily they saw him straight away! Anyway, they diagnosed croup and gave him a liquid steroid to stop the swelling. He actually started improving while we were in there (before the medicine) so that was good. They told me that it would probably be bad like that again for the next couple of nights...we got home around 3am and luckily he slept ok until 5.30 and then again to 7am.
He woke up some miserable and grumpy I think just from lack of sleep and luckily before 9am he went back down for 2 1/2 hours and so did I.
I think what made everything more scary was that I was home alone. Dh is out of range on his phone so doesn't even know whats happened yet! He's due home today so I can't wait to hear from him. I just rely on him so much!

Anyway, Tori and Chantelle I hope you have wonderful parties today!!!

Melissa - I think cars are the worst in summer! They heat up so quickly! Hope you're coping with your warm weather. I'm back to having the heater on but in Vic we're used to that! hehe. The weather here never lasts for too long.

Tracey - My address is 4/373 Maroondah Hwy Croydon Nth 3136! Thats great Jordans eating pasta! Louis loves it as well.

K, I've just eaten brekky so I better try and get a bit organised - The food shopping I did yesterday afternoon still hasn't got put away! It was a struggle getting dinner cooked for me last night with Louis so miserable!...

Hope you're all having a great weekend! (or at least better than mine! hehe)