Lots of stuff

I was going to start this post off with the fact that I hate being sick, but instead decided I should go in chronological order to explain how I got sick.

Emma and Morgan started school.  Emma is in Kindergarten and LOVES her teacher.  Morgan is in THIRD GRADE! and loves her teacher too. 

Here they are on the 1st day of school

Sooooo old!!!

Anyway, with the beginning of school comes beginning of school viruses.  On the 5th day of school, Morgan's teacher called and said Morgan felt like she was going to throw up...but she didn't have a fever or anything.  She let me talk to her and we decided she'd stay through lunch and if she didn't feel any better, she could come home then.  Well, she made it through lunch and felt a little better...so she went to recess and threw up. Bummer! Anyway, I went and picked her up.  Fast forward to Wednesday night.  I was so grumpy and irritable and nothing sounded good.  Chris said he knew something was wrong when I called him and asked him if he'd stop and get me a hot fudge sundae at McDonald's and he said "what did you have for dinner?" and I said "powdered donuts...nothing sounded good" HA!  Anyway, at 2am on Thursday, I started throwing up.  I ended up throwing up 14 times in 7 hours.  At 5:30am, Chris called the on-call doctor and went to Walgreens to get me a Phenergan prescription.  Didn't help.  At 8:30am, Chris texted our doctor (who is also a good friend)  He called right back and said to bring me in for an injection.  I still threw up 3 more times, but at least it knocked me out.  I slept literally all day long.  Then Saturday, it was Chris' turn.  He only threw up once like Morgan and Carter, but he felt lousy all day.  Then, Saturday night, it was Emma's turn!  All 5 of us had it within 5 days!!  Mine just didn't ever quite go away, and then on Wednesday, I had a fever and a sore throat and hugely swollen lymph nodes.  I am just now kind of starting to feel better. 

In other news, the girls are both participating in a cheerleading clinic put on by the high school cheerleaders.  They have a little performance at a football game tonight.  It should be cute!!  I am hoping to feel well enough to go.

Chris is doing his first sprint triathlon next Saturday!  I am so proud of him!  He motivated me to do mine by all of his marathon training, but then watching me do the triathlon last summer got him inspired to try one too!  We're just a healthy little family! HA

That's all for now....I need to have a way to share Facebook things on here so I have all of my updates in one place.  Maybe I can copy all of my status updates into one big post!

Update

Wow...time gets away from me so fast. I really want to get better about keeping my posts on here. It is so much easier to post stuff on Facebook but I want to keep this up to remember things...every day things!

This week was a busy week. Emma started preschool...here she is on her first day back.
Trying to get sleepy Carter to smile....

Traditional in-front-of-the-fireplace photo.
For those of you who have been following along in your textbooks, you know we were really hoping Emma could go to Kindergarten this year. She's only 3 days past the cut off which is a real bummer. Especially when you know that I was given the option of having a c-section for her on her due date, July 28. I, however, was kind of interested in the idea of a VBAC at that point and really wanted to wait until 40 weeks to see if God had other plans. Turns out...He didn't. So, she was still born by c-section at exactly 40 weeks on August 4. Do you see where I'm going here? That's right. If I had not tried to be a responsible parent, I would have had her in plenty of time to send to Kindergarten this year! Of course, I also know that means that maybe it was in God's plan all along that she not go right now....and either way, I know it isn't His plan now. I tried everything I could to get her into Kindergarten this year and it still didn't happen, so I am very much at peace with that now. (as I'm sure you can tell by this long story! HA!)

Anyway, Emma's new teacher is my childhood friend, Julie (McNary) Marshall. I went to Kindergarten at Albany Elementary with her sister, Jill. (coincidentally, meeting her in Kindergarten at Albany when I was 5 days past the cut off and wasn't allowed to go to Kindergarten at my own school so my mom sent me to a different school!! Sound familiar?!) Julie is just awesome and I know Emma will have a great time. Also, she'll get to be in Kindergarten next year with Emilee Smith and Kamryn Williams who are both great little girls from even greater families. I know they'll be good friends.

Carter is still in speech therapy and is making huge strides. He started out with only 1 or 2 words (Mommy and ball when he felt like it) He is already up to almost 50 words! It is so fun listening to him say more things. Yesterday, he was "singing" while I was changing his diaper. It kind of sounded like Itsy Bitsy Spider, but I wasn't positive. Soon, he was doing the motions to the Itsy Bitsy Spider. It took a little investigating, but I finally figured out that my mom had taught it to him. He is a sponge!

Morgan is loving 2nd grade but has had a rough week this week. First, she went potty in her pants at school. She is still afraid of the automatic flushing toilets. We're trying all we know to help her work through this while also not giving her too much attention over it. Tough balance to strike. Then, for 2 days she would get off the bus and run into the house and straight to the bathroom. So, I finally got her to admit she was holding her pee all day long. I explained to her that that wasn't healthy and could make her get a bladder infection and have to go to the doctor and get a shot. (gasp!) So, the next day, I get a phone call from the nurse in the middle of the day telling me my child is in the office in hysterics because she needs to use the manual flushing toilet that the nurse has. *sigh* We were already to work on it on Thursday when she came down with a fever on Wednesday night. She has had a fever of between 103 and 104 for 4 days now as I type this on Sunday. The doctor did an influenza test and said it was negative. So, it is just a virus and may last 5-7 days. She has thrown up 3 times and even with constant Tylenol and ibuprofen, can't get the fever down below about 102. Hopefully I will have a better report on her in my next post.

First day of school

My big second grader!
Waiting for the bus
Had to take a picture with the birthday boy!
The bus was rather late, so all the kids on our cul-de-sac came down to our driveway to hang out. I wish I had half as much energy in the morning as these kids did!
The bus is finally here!!!
She doesn't look quite so tiny getting on that thing anymore!