We all got sick

The last 24 hours have been very tough.  Eva was sick first, then Jens and then me :(  Me and Jens are about to attempt a happy meal.  Poor little Eva is not doing too great.

Emilia ill

So much for looking forward to the weekend.  At midnight on Friday Emilia woke up crying so I brought her upstairs thinking she must be hungry.  As I was preparing her bottle she vomited a little bit, but then started crying really hard which is really unlike her.  I picked her up and she started retching again on me and big clumps of sick come up.  The kitchen was quite dark and then clumps looked greeny brown, something that we have been told to look out for.  If Emilia were to get a blockage, this is one of the very serious signs.  I just panicked and shouted down the stairs in my very stern teacher voice that Jens had to come up NOW!!  He came and took Emilia, meaning I could inspect the lumps which turned out to be a mixture of green beans and avocado.  My little Emilia is not chewing her food!  After that she seemed ok, so we gave her the bottle and put her to bed. As always I was worried.

After about 10 minutes she started moaning again and then crying so I picked her up and she projectile vomited about four times before I could get to the bathroom. I think I was a bit in shock and Jens had to say to me about three times, "Paula, go to the bathroom!".  We got there in the end and I managed to get her cleaned up, Jens tackled the bedroom with poor little Eva standing up in bed crying, obviously wondering what was going on! We could not settle Eva. As soon as Jens got close Emilia would be sick again.  It was chaos.  In the end, all four of us ended up in our bed.  Emilia then puked all over it, leaving Jens on baby duty while I changed our sheets.

When that was done, Jens sat with Eva and I lay with Emilia, who every 10 minutes or so kept being sick again.  I felt so sorry for her.  All I could do was sit her up and catch what came up, she kept holding her arms out towards me whilst she was retching.  I felt so helpless.  In the end, Jens brought Eva into our bed and we were back to four in the bed, but Emilia's sick episodes were just too stressful for baby Eva so I took Emilia upstairs to the spare bed.  I kept managing to calm her but then she would sit up and be sick again.  By this time not much was coming up but it was still really scary for my little girl.

At about 3am she was able to get some sleep and at 5 she sat up and just grinned at me.  I fed her and she wasn't sick.  She then went back to sleep for another couple of hours.  She had diarrhea all day yesterday and today, but it does seem to be calming down.  She is eating and drinking so I think we can say she is on the mend.

So me and Jens have spent the weekend doing an insane amount of laundry.  I just managed to get the house clean and at 2pm on Sunday I have had my first shower of the weekend and Jens is in there now.   To round off our ill weekend, Eva woke up with a cold!  But so far no signs of anything else and we feel OK too.  This could have been a lot worse.

We are off to England on Friday and had planned to celebrate Christmas with Jens' Mum and Dad today :( But that will have to wait until another time.

Walking

Emilia is now walking with her trolley:

It has to be fair, so here is Eva doing it too:

Eva has been doing this for quite a while now and it just so fantastic to see Emilia being able to do it too!  I am so proud of them.

The last two nights the twins have slept the whole night, which hasn't happened for a long time.  Unfortunately for me I keep waking up even though I feel really exhausted.  Hopefully tonight will be a little bit better.  We have had a good week but I am very happy it is nearly the weekend.  Jens will be home in just over an hour and I cannot wait to get our weekend started.

Liseberg

So that special Friday with Pappa was upon us again and this week we took our little treasures to Liseberg.  Grandma and Grandad came on Wednesday so they were able to accompany us. Irene sorted out some great tickets from her work, meaning the twins got to spend a couple of hours with both sets of Grandparents in a very magical setting.

Christmas at Liseberg really is something else.  Liseberg is a theme park which is open in the warmer months and has lots of great rides, but in winter is transformed into an oasis with real fires and trees dripping in lights.  There really is no better way to get into the Christmas spirit!

As soon as we walked in, all the snow and fairy lights were twinkling around us and one of my favorite Christmas songs was playing.  Then we saw the Liseberg bunny who greeted Emilia and Eva.  It was just one of those special life moments were everything was perfect.  I almost shed a little tear I was so happy.

 
We then went into Santa's house, where Children could write their wish list to Santa and then post it in the wish list processing machine.  Emilia and Eva wished for Elmer books, I wonder if they have been good enough girls this year for that wish to come true?

Then the twins got to ride on the carousel for the first time:

Our final stop was a cafe to defrost! It was about -12 while we there :)

A fun time was had by all!

Thank you Sweden

After reading this article I have realised how lucky I am to live in Sweden:

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-06-02-prematurebabies-survival_N.htm

Air

Had to try out my new computer to see how fast it would be to transfer over a picture!

Faster than our old computer, I guess even a super fast computer cannot upload a picture instantly!  I ended up buying a second hand Air with 7 months warranty left on it.  I love it and feel like I got a good deal :)

The twins are in bed at the same time - AGAIN!  What is going on??  We had a bad night though so feeling pretty tired.  I can only blame myself though.  It felt really cold in our bedroom so I got all worried that the twins would be too cold, I went in and put an extra cover on them both.  Eva woke up and started crying - she slept between us.  About half an hour later Emilia woke up crying really loud!  But I managed to console her and get her back in bed asleep pretty fast.  Hopefully tonight will be a good night so we can enjoy the weekend! 

Slottskogen

We took the twins to the park in the middle of Gothenburg last Friday.  Jens is now working shifts meaning he has every other Friday off.  We have made a promise to always try and do something special on those Fridays.  So Slottskogen was our first Friday family outing!

Eva enjoyed looking at the sheep and moose, snuggled in the safety of her Daddy's arms:

Emilia not so much, haha, she slept the whole time:

She enjoyed the cafe though - those bubbles of joy were literally exploding!

We rounded our morning off on the swings!  The perfect end to our perfect Friday :)