We are getting quite desperate.

Oh there have been many sleepless nights in this house. And it is not because of the youngest member of our family, nope, it's all down to the fact that Zack now keeps the hours of a student.


We are having real big problems getting him to sleep. Once he is asleep then all is well and he will sleep through the night, but of late he will not go to sleep at all.  We really don't know what to do with this one. He is closing his eyes and looks like he is drifting off but then starts getting upset, howling, crying, sobbing and being extra tense and grabby. Eventually when he does go to sleep, he will just drop into a deep sleep and you can get him in bed. But the times of night have varied from 11.30pm to four in the flipping morning. 


We have tried drugs, (Melatonin), to help him drift off. Does not work one dot with him. We have tried leaving him crying, does not work. Makes him more stressed and eventually he is still awake, in bed, at 3am. 


Dan is off to a sleep seminar tomorrow evening to try and get some advice. I just keep thinking it will be filled with other parents who look like they have been dragged through a hedge backwards. Maybe they will use the time to catch up on the sleep they have lost. 


We are also contacting the neurologist to see if he can offer some advice. I know a lot of parents with children with special needs are affected by lack of sleep but if anyone has a magic cure please feel free to leave a comment. We are getting quite desperate.


On top of a new baby to look after (who is being as good as gold, although I think she is saving all the naughtiness up for another time) Zack hasn't been too good. He has a small case of a tummy bug, which means he has been a bit off colour and not really himself. He was better today, we managed to do his therapy, go for a walk and have a bit of play time. Plus he was smiling lots which means he is getting back to normal.


Other news is the seizures have been creeping up again. We are upping his medication as he is still on a low dose but all this takes time. His new crunchy up seizure, where he looks like he is trying to sit up and then gently relaxes backwards with a few seconds of unconsciousness are perhaps, according to the neurologist, spasms. He did used to suffer with stomach spasms a lot so it makes sense to me. He was having quite a few of these but they seem to have lessened slightly. 


Oh yes, it is all fun and games at the moment. A passing phase I hope, it usually is, well that's what I keep telling myself.

Hold on to your Pants, The Pants went for his first hair cut

I think it was coming back from being in hospital that made me realise how wild and big Zack's hair had become.

He needed a haircut. Fast. 

Not only was he catching it by accident in his hands and accidentally pulling bits out, which would result in the most upset crying ever. But it was just starting to look a bit ridiculous. And this little guy cannot do ridiculous. 

So we booked an appointment at the hairdressers and off we went.

He was pretty good in the chair, he tolerated the haircut, even smiled at the hairdresser. But after 20 minutes he was getting a bit fed up and he didn't get asked if he was going anywhere nice on his holidays.

Although it doesn't look too different, it's been thinned out a bit and tidied up and I must say he looks even more handsome.

He even took his own wallet to pay for his haircut. I told Dan this as we left and he looked at me in horror. "You made him pay for his haircut with his own birthday/Christmas money?"  "Yep," I replied. 

"That's so tight, do you think when Scarlett grows up and she wants highlights you'll be making her pay with birthday/Christmas money?" "Nope. She'll come and see her daddy about that one."

Oh he has a lot to learn about the ladies.

Before, during and after shots below. 

Before a right old mop.

During he is not happy about the cape

After not much different but thinned out ad less frzzy.  How happy does he look with his new hair cut....not.

Tadaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Zack has a sister.


This is Scarlett Gould-Price, born on Tuesday 1st March at 1.13pm and weighed 6lb 5. 


The first meeting between the Pants and his sister went well on his part. He smiled politely, got a good look at her and she screamed in his ear, he quite liked this. 


The other day they were on the bed lying next to each other and I turned around to find him holding her little hand.  She was still screaming in his ear. I think he might get fed up of the screaming by week two.


Anyway I just wanted to update the blog but too tired to write lots more which I will do when we have all settled in to a nice routine. (Ha! Yeah nice routine like that is going to ever be the case).


Enjoy the pictures for now.

And who knew that Coronation Streets Peter Barlow makes celebrity appearances at a birth near you!!!!