OUR WEE KINDY BOY

Harry had his first day of Kindergarten last Friday and thankfully survived the day happily and without any itchy attacks. Charlie was with him there too so I think this helped!
To have Harry start Kindy shows how far he's come. He's mostly happy, sleeping better and looks like a healthy happy wee boy compared to this time last year.
After I left Harry at Kindy I cried all the way home. It was a strange feeling leaving my baby behind . The house was so quiet. Having three boys makes for a very noisy and messy house so the silence was almost deafening! I made sure to do something for myself so went for a bike ride before going to Oscar's school athletics.
Harry's Skin is looking great. The only times he seems to be itchy is when he's tired and on and off throughout the night. His feet still look that of an old man rather than a three year old! I found a container of Harry's dead skin the other day in the cupboard - glad I didn't mistake it for breadcrumbs! I'm guessing it's a few weeks worth? I can't believe how much skin he lost through this process. It's so disgusting but it also fascinated me seeing teaspoons a day of skin coming off Harry.
So on the home front - After one year and eight months Andrew and I finally slept in the same bed all night long. Not at all a sound sleep with both of us getting up and down through the night to Oscar and Harry then waking in the early hours to Harry then Charlie tucked In with us! Still, this is one massive milestone for us. It's still weird going to bed at night with Andrew. We are both so used to little people tucked in with us! Harry has had two more nights of sleeping through all night and Oscar has been in our bed on and off over the last couple of weeks and the times he's managed to fall asleep in his bed he's lasted between 1-5 a.m.
Another big milestone - Oscar has had two full weeks at school. this is the first time ever!
It's been confirmed that Oscar does have Horseshoe Kidney. This basically means that his kidneys are a different shape than usual and it's thought that this isn't a contributing factor to Oscar's stomach upsets. He's still getting sore stomachs but not everyday like he was.
Oscar still has a spotty eczema rash all over his body that we can't seem to shift. Very frustrating when we are working so hard on his diet.
We were lucky enough to win 'Skin Friend' supplements in a competition I had entered recently. The supplements contain ingredients that help to assist in the healing and repair of skin.  The supplements are developed by Karen Fischer who wrote 'The Eczema Diet' book. We are two weeks in and no change as yet so fingers crossed we might see change soon alongside the eczema diet.
Life is so much easier than it has been over the last few years. We are getting enough sleep to function normally now. For so long I have felt like we have just been in survival mode and not really living- alive but not living!  Not enjoying life or having fun as a family, just doing all we could to get through a 24 hour period to do it all again the next day. It's been our job to get Oscar and Harry through this and I feel like we have got them over the worst.
I'm looking forward to so many fun family times ahead of us.

Harry's first day of kindy

Enough to be put off breadcrumbs for life!