Holly home again - for good this time!

After a couple of false starts and final blood test on Saturday, Holly finally got the okay to come home and doesn't need any more treatment. We're very relieved to have our little girl home and healthy. Here she is asleep in her bed

Normally she has her arms wrapped up when she goes to sleep, but usually manages to get one or both of them out of the wrap. She is feeding well and sleeping well, which makes things easier for both of us, but it is still tough having a baby in the house again.

The little boys love having their little sister home and every time she cries in her room their ears prick up and they say, "Holly crying!". They haven't quite worked out that them running around screaming and shouting could possibly be what wakes her up! When she's having a feed they all crowd around trying to touch her or kiss her and saying "Holly!", or "Sister!" or "Cute" or "Tiny". At least they have stopped calling her Polly, Molly or Dolly which is what they called her at various times while she was still in hospital. They fight over who gets to sit next to Holly in the car every time we go out. When we changed the seats in the car around a few weeks ago they were fighting over who would get to sit in the back row with Mitch, now they fight over who gets to sit in the middle row next to Holly.

Mitch is a little more cool to his sister, in a sort of 5 year old boy manner. Add to that he still thinks he's the centre of the universe (also a trait of 5 year old boys), but if he loves her and gives her little kisses too, although he doesn't gush. Besides there is only so much time in a boy's life and when a large part of it is spent looking at his Star Wars Character Encyclopaedia which he was given when Holly was born. He's a little bit obsessed. It is amazing how much of it he knows and sometime you forget that he can't actually read what is on the pages. He just remembers it all. Speaking of reading and spelling, Mitch is also obsessed by that. He's not at school this year, but I suspect by the time he goes next year he will be able to spell lots of words. He keeps on asking us to teach him how to spell new words. It's the same with maths. He will be sitting there eating lunch or something and he'll turn to you and say, "Dad, did you know 3 plus 3 plus 3 is 9?".

I have lots more photos to go through from the past week, but here are a few from last week when Aunty Mandy and cousins Lilly and Will visited. Lilly had a cuddle with Holly

and then had a photo with Mitch, who needed a bit of encouragement to smile

But eventually managed to ...

He looks so grown up!