Sick and tired

Not that sick, but fairly tired.

Ivy has been under the weather this week. A fever on and off earlier, and now a lingering pointless cough. Her sleeping is all shot to hell. Last night she woke 5 or 6 times between bedtime and 5:45am. Each time she needed help to go back to sleep. And let me tell you, I race in there to give her that help!

When Ivy wakes in the night her cries go from 0 to 100 in ten seconds. If she gets past 100, it takes her ages to get back down again, and she is SOOOO LOUD. Like, unbelievably loud. And piercing.

Usually Hazel sleeps through it all, but if Ivy reaches the Plateau of Piercing Screaming, of course Hazel wakes up and screams that it's ridiculous that this is going on right next to her head. Their cots are only a foot apart. Then it's a right bastard getting them both calmed down again. This week Trudi has been having to get up and help me, cos it's all I can do to calm Ivy, let alone Hazel too.

So we are all tired, and Ivy still seems to be a little bit sick with some mild unspecified malaise.

In other news, I had the swine flu jab yesterday. Trudi's had hers. It seems like a good idea to have as much immunity in the family as possible. When it comes around again next winter we might have some immunity to whatever form it's mutated into.

In other other news, Krishna and Trishna seem to be doing really well.