It really is a relief to go back to normality.
On the 6th of April I took Liam for his cardiac appointment ( this was post - hospitalization when the paediatrician picked up a cardiac murmur ).
Liam did very well! He was a seasoned 'patient': no fuss when the cardiologist listened to his heart, and he also allowed a trainee cardiologist have a listen as well. When he had to have the echocardiogram he stayed still long enough for the radiographer to scan his heart. ( I had him on me and I lay on the examination couch ).
When the radiographer was done she called the doctor in to have a check and that really scared me! We all know they only ever call the doctors in to review the scans if something is wrong! Fortunately that wasn't the case and Liam was discharged with a normal echo.
So that leaves us with one more paediatrician review in June to repeat his blood count ( he's also mildly anaemic! )
We've been laying low the past few days: I really wanted everything to go back to normal. So, tennis/swim on Tuesday, Chinese class Wednesday , music class Thursday and swim class again on Friday.
On Sunday Madison had to go for round 2 of the JTT mini tennis tournament.
It was a scorching day! She did really well, no complaining throughout the 2+ hours of tennis ! Her tennis partner Ravin got the runners' up trophy: he was short of winning by 1 point!
The only bugbear of this tournament was seriously the 'hovering' dad syndrome that 2 fathers' had.
( by the way-- their sons won the trophies partly because they did that!) Parents were given specific instructions that the point of the tournament was for the kids to learn to play competitively and learn the spirit of the game. Parents were to stay off and let the kids pick their own balls and count points. However there were at least 2 dads who found it exceedingly difficult to do so and hovered around their sons, picked balls up and basically umpired the matches for them. I didn't realize it at the point, but as the game was counted purely on the number of points the child could score in the games, they obviously scored the most points because their dads were handing them balls to hit continuously!
After the game we drove to Marina Bay golf course to meet up with Annika and we had lunch together. Chris left for his golf game ( that took 6 hours! IE the rest of Sunday !). I had a really nice lunch with the girls --it's much easier now that they are more independent and eat fairly well. Eating out is now less of a hassle; in fact eating in is harder !
We got home and the girls did a bit of homework at home, then since Chris was still at golf I packed everyone up in the car and we headed for Gardens By the Bay. The annual membership is awesome. I paid entry for the 2 helpers and we visited Cloud Forest Dome.
After a quick dinner at home ( it was VERY tempting to just eat out again at the Gardens ! ) we popped over to a neighbour's home to play. A totally relaxing way to end the weekend and I was very sad for Monday to come again. ( Kind of, although it also means the kids are meaningfully occupied!)
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