Dear Beautiful Boy,

After all those months of excitement, counting down, getting ready for Santa and being so excited for presents, the present neither of us needed was for you to wake up with D&V.  Two changes of bed linen, three changes of pjs and two showers before 7am and the day wasn’t looking good, but the moment you actually went back to sleep, I knew you were really poorly – you never go back to sleep once you’ve woken.

You poor, poor kid….

We tried again around 11 but your little face was white as a sheet and even though you happily pointed out the pile of presents to me, you clearly had no energy for them.  But still, you wanted to try and I wasn’t about to say no to you, so slowly and carefully, you worked your way through the pile.  I wasn’t too surprised when there was none of the usual pleasure over unwrapped packets of sweets (I can imagine!) but there was at least happiness over your toys and amazingly enough, even excitement over your Christmas pjs (just as well you got a few of those!)

But was the main thing you’ve been waiting for there?  Was it under the tree?  When you first found the directions cards and then the alternate red and green coloured shells, you knew and a little smile came onto your face as you dug under the tree once more to find……beebot!!!  The delighted look on your wan little face made me want to sweep you up into my arms but I managed to get a couple of happy photos before putting the camera down and we play together with beebot for a while.

Then it was all just too much and you melted onto the sofa where, other than a few “visits” you stayed for the rest of the day, huddled under a blanket, occasionally weeping, mostly just dozing and coughing before finally properly going back to bed at 6:30pm.

Your little face is still very white as you sleep but your temperature seems to be going down, so I do hope you manage to have a restful night for both of our sakes!  There may have been plenty of time for me to catch the Christmas telly, but that’s not quite what I had hoped for us both today so I can’t deny being disappointed.

You do look very cute in your new Hey Duggee pjs though.

Sweet dreams beautiful boy, even when you’re poorly and it’s all a bit of a washout, I still love you more than I can ever say. Better luck next year huh?

Love

Mummy