The season for Flu, Runny Nose, Cough and Fever again

The virus is back again and its getting strong. Josiah started falling sick on 28th July with fever running as high as 40.1 Degree Celsius at one point. We took turns to sponge him with water throughout the day and night. His runny nose is quite bad that he couldn't sleep and cried the night through. Its pretty tough over that 1 week until Joshua fell sick as well the following week and just reocevered only on 9th August. That was a long and super sleepy period as we still brought ourselves to work in the morning. Always feel that the tough part of parenting is when the kiddos are sick, yet it hurts to see them ill. Something that a non parent may not fully comprehend.

When they are finally much better with no fever, we brought them out again for family time. Its so much easier to be out with them than to be with 2 sick boys all day at home. Its the National Day weekend and we sang National Songs and attended the National Day Observation Ceremony. Hope they will be proud to be Singaporeans and serve the Army happily in future.

Their weight dropped quite a fair bit over the past 2 weeks with Josiah dropping from 9.9kg to 9.2kg and Joshua to only 9.0kg. Haiz... They are still so thin and need to feed them to grow more fats. Their baby fats are like gone already when I looked back at old photographs. So many babies at 12 months already more than 10kg and ours seems so hard to hit the mark.

Feeding is still an issue as they always don't seems to enjoy food. They are more selective with food now with this age and will reject strongly if they don't want to eat. The case is worse for Joshua lately maybe because he just recovered. Hope their appetite comes back soon...