Little Marching Soldier

It seems the Angus' kidney situation has not improved since birth and so we are booked into hospital on October 15th for a little operation. It's a very routine procedure with a 98% success rate. In the 2% of cases that fail they redo the procedure in a different way and that is 80% successful. So we're not anxious about it.

Angus is a real kicker - he LOVES kicking his legs. He'll kick the whole time on the change table, he'll kick himself to sleep, he kicks with excitement on his mat and he kicks when he's so tired he needs to go to bed. Now he's got more awareness of his hands/arms they are perpetually moving too and his kicking style is a little more like a horizontal marching soldier. (Run Forrest, Run is echoing in my head.)

The other most gorgeous thing he's up to these day is singing. He's being 'talking' for a while but as soon as you start singing to him he stops, face changes to serious expression and he lifts his chin up and starts mimicking the melody. It's hilarious! He'll even stop kicking while he's singing.
So his marching and singing habits may be painfully augmented for a little while after the operation. We'll be in St John's for 2 nights and at home recovering after that.