Poo in my shoe!

At 2am Smallest had been replaced by a Sea Lion and was cough-barking terribly. It woke the rest of the house up. He had also had a little accident. We gave him water to sip, Vicks on his chest, Tylenol (paracetamol equivalent) and opened his bedroom windows. We also propped him on pillows. He managed to get back to sleep and in the morning we took him to the doctors.

Smallest and I waited at the walk-in clinic while Small and Huffle went off to do some errands. They went to a book shop, two gadget shops, two supermarkets and then to pick us up.

We sat and waited for two hours, chatted with a Greek woman who had earache, a woman who split her lip catching a baseball and a woman from South of England, saw a nurse, got Smallest weighed (48 lbs) and his temperature taken on his finger and in his ear (which made him giggle). Finally we saw a doctor who checked his chest thoroughly which was clear, checked his temperature which was normal and then gave us a prescription for a one-off steroid to be taken with food. He said he had croup but that croup could be just a simple cough or a bad cough with breathing problems. He said if he had troubles breathing we were to take him straight to Emergency. We picked up a few bits for lunch and then met the other two outside.

We stood next to the car and ate baguette roughly spread with laughing cow (which is what we did when we first got to Canada because we didn't know where anything was! however it was much colder then). Then we drove to see the poo lady who let us have many bags of horse manure for free. She was lovely and comes from Liverpool originally. We met her through NoCustard. It was tough work shovelling poo into bags and loading them into the car. I wore my Wellies but Huffle only had his gardening shoes and because he parked too close to the manure pile, he ended up in it and the poo got in his shoes, ha ha ha!!

The pile of poo and the boys in the background talking to the lady.

Then of course, once we got home we had to carry them from the car to the veg beds and spread them. We earnt ourselves a nice big pastry and a cup of tea before we made our way to Garfunkel's gallery as she had an art exhibition this weekend. Huffle bought a card from her for me.

Biking back from Garfunkels - you can just see Smallest

We came home and Huffle and I made some more paths in the veg garden and filled them with bark etc. Looking good. The boys played on the IPad once Small finished his homework.

We had pizza and a film and watched Iron Man 3 which was a bit violent but the kids insisted it was fine. At 7pm Smallest said he could watch no more and said he wanted to go to bed. I told him it was 8pm and he was happy to go, we said Small would be up in five minutes, hoping that he would be asleep by then!

Hopefully he will sleep okay tonight.

Our lovely clematis again.

 

 

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