I'm back

I got a yucky tummy bug on Tuesday and I'm getting better but I'm not 100% yet. I had dh take Logan to tumbling tonight so I could hang at home. I'm supposed to be cleaning but then who will watch Bella? ;) Heaven forbid I stick her in a playpen!

So here are just a few catch-ups from this week. We got to see the space shuttle Discovery go up on Sunday night. Beautiful launch! We didn't actually go over to the Cape but we were able to see it just fine from way over here. We're a good 3 hour drive from the Cape on the other coast so it's really neat to know we can still see it! Unfortunately my SLR camera had an issue (easily fixed) but I wasn't able to take photos with it at the moment so I had to run and grab my little P&S so that means quality isn't the greatest, especially at night with the long zoom.

Smoke trail



That star looking thing is the boosters falling back to earth. Remember, we're clear across the state!


St Patty's Day was Tuesday and Logan had to make a leprechaun trap for school. I'm not an engineering major (or minor!) so this was the best I could do. The one dh made for Ian last minute was far better. It had a fake floor and trap door!




That morning they visited our house first. Thet left a box of Lucky Charms cereal and turned the milk green. They also left some green beaded necklaces for the boys to wear. His class loved when they came back from lunch and they had been visited by those little green men. They left footprints, peed green in the class bathroom and left some candy.

Other than that our week has been pretty much the same old, same old. I'm still trying to pick a date for Bella's birthday. More than likely it will the the 1st weekend of April. No competing with her uncle's 40th birthday that way. I've gotten most of the stuff I needed and her birthday dress came in the mail today! It's so cute! I can't believe she's almost one already. It seems like I just had her. Time goes by way too quickly!

Salmonella?

Is there a recall on the horizon? Or am I just the only one who happened to get sick? The only thing different I ate yesterday was some organic spinach from Costco in my sandwich. Yesterday my tummy was feeling a bit icky but today- WHAM- I got hit. My tummy hurts, I'm exhausted and I get cold easily (no fever). I took a nap and I still feel tired. Noone in the house seems to be affected. I'm scared to even eat the rest of the fresh spinach in there or serve it. I did rinse if off before eating it btw. So now I sit here popping Immodium, sipping on water/grape juice and eating crackers in the hopes that this goes away soon so I can function and take care of my kids. Ugh. I doubt I'll be taking Logan to tumbling so I think another nap will be in order later.

My sick little boy

My poor baby is sick. He got sick Monday night but slept thru the night. Woke up Tuesday okay. Even ate some breakfast. By mid-morning he wasn't feeling so great again and fell asleep on the couch. Fell asleep again around 5:30 when I left to take Logan to class.

This morning around 4:30AM Bella woke up crying. I went to get her and I heard noises from the boys' room. Opened the door and Logan is playing his DS and Ian's awake as well. Um hello?! It's 4 freakin 30! I nipped that real quick and told them both to get back to sleep and I took the DS with me. Logan didn't want to get up for school this morning- surprise, surprise! Anyway, when Ian woke up he didn't want breakfast. He was quite proud that he made his own cup of juice though and let me know it several times while I was still sleeping. Apparently I didn't say Good Job to him and that's the only answer he would take. As I realized later tonight though, I never ran the dishwasher last night and that cup was dirty. Yuck! He didn't eat lunch. He didn't eat dinner. He has had nothing but a few crackers and a lot of juice, milk and mainly water. Poor baby was in tears tonight because his tummy hurt. He let out a gag though and a big burp and appeared to feel a bit better though before bed.

Here's a pic I took of him this morning. He was all bundled up (been running a 101.x fever consistently) and just started nodding off while sitting on the couch. I hate seeing him so miserable but I must say that's it's been nice and quiet with no yelling, fussing or fighting. He just wants hugs and kisses and someone to cover him up. I hope he's back to his self soon though. I miss his smile and laugh.

Is it possible...

To tent your house and set off a Lysol bomb in it? Seriously. This is getting ridiculous. If it's not a runny nose, it's a cough. If it's not either of those, it's a freakin' fever!

Logan was fine all day Friday. Saturday evening he started running a fever and said he had a headache. No other symptoms really. So Disney was out for today. Today he's running a fever still and even goes and lays down in his bed. Dh thinks he just didn't want to help clean. I think he was sick. His eyes looked a little pink and watery tonight and he just laid around all day. He did eat a little dinner and some popcorn. He didn't finish his lunch however which is really unusual so I know he's not feeling well. So he'll be home from school tomorrow. At least I don't have to go out in the cold and can sleep in a bit. ;)

I usually look forward to fall/winter because the weather is so beautiful but we've never been such a sick household before. UGH!!! I don't know what else to do!

Brrr

It's cold outside! It was in the 30s this morning and broke records. This is the weather we don't usually get until January! There was even frost on the roofs this morning. Is it completely horrible to say I'm kinda glad Logan got sick last night so we could sleep in this morning? LOL He came home from school with a headache yesterday and a few hours later he was throwing up. That lasted about 3 hours. He took a bath and went to bed (his body was worn out) and woke up this morning perfectly fine. I wasn't going to take him to school after he was so sick yesterday. He can go back tomorrow. I certainly do not want him infecting anyone else. I still don't know what it was. Not to mention we were up at 5:30am when the power went out. The house gets eerily quiet with no heat, no noise machines and no fan blowing. Logan woke up when his noise machine went off too not to mention his night light. The power finally came on about 20min later and Bella woke up when I went to turn her machine back on. So I had to nurse her and get her back to sleep.

We were supposed to go to the park with friends this afternoon (in about 10min actually) but we'll be staying home. I made a big pot of veggie soup that's simmering. I would have made chili but it seems everyone and their mother had the same idea and there wasn't a single. can. left. in the store. Oh well. The house smells so good right now. Maybe I'll make some more of my lactation cookies later. Yum. If it wasn't for these boys fighting with each other and tattling every 2 minutes, it might be a perfect winter day!

First cold

I feel so bad for her. Bella appears to have a cold. It's just a stuffy nose but since babies only breathe thru their noses for the first couple of months, it's hard for her. It's too far back for a bulb syringe to work. Dh picked up some Little Noses but I don't like using it since she is so young. I'm going to try to find a saline solution later if I can. I'm running a hot shower right now but my bathroom just doesn't seem to steam up. Poor baby. Oh and I tried breastmilk but it's hard to squeeze into her. LOL Any other suggestions?