This N That

Sorry I haven't been around the blog world for a few days. It seems that a black cloud of illness is somewhere over my house.

Mia is doing much better. Her fever is gone and now she is only battling with the fact that the antibiotic makes her sick to her stomach so she doesn't want to eat very much. Of course, when the medicine wears off at about 4 am she is starving. So, Mommy is not getting much sleep these days.

On Sunday night, not only was she up at 4 am, but since Austin has had a dry cough we have a sippy cup of water in his crib so he can take a drink instead of crying for us and that means more peeing. Unfortunately, his monitor receiver had fallen face down on the floor and when he cried that he needed to go pee pee we didn't hear him in time. So in the middle of the night I was changing crib sheets and comforting a toddler as well.

Needless to say, on Monday morning, working on about 4 hours of sleep, I was not doing well. About 11:30 I was gathering up the kids to head to the grocery store and I felt a little nauseous, but attributed that to lack of sleep and possible hunger. The longer I was at the grocery store the worse it got and I decided to stop and get Austin a cheeseburger on the way home so that I wouldn't have to make him lunch and could get the kids and myself in bed as soon as possible. Before laying down, I ate a little bit of lunch thinking that would help me. Big mistake!

Laying very still was about the only thing that was helping, but seeing as how Mia decided to only sleep for an hour, that was not happening for long. I tried for about half an hour to get her back to sleep, but when she made it clear that she didn't like that idea, I put her in my bed with some toys so I could continue to lay down.

You know what her favorite game was? Patting Mommy tummy.

Thankfully, Austin was taking his usual long nap and around 5 he was still sleeping and I knew I was truly sick. I called Mark and begged him to come home and relieve me of the torture.

Before he made it home 20 minutes later, I had already put Mia on the floor with some toys and was in the bathroom violently vomiting. In my book, there is nothing worse in the sickness world than throwing up.

The next 20 hours or so were not pretty or fun. Mark stayed home from work yesterday and took care of the kids, but due to the nighttime situation we have going on here, he was only working on 4 hours sleep as well, so I tried to help as much as I could. I should have stayed in bed.

By dinner time last night I was feeling well enough to help out more and cook dinner. However, I was nowhere near 100%.

Today I am feeling much better and will try to conquer the mess my house has become with Mommy being out of commission for a couple days.

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On a good note, Austin has started to share even his beloved cars and trucks with Mia. Tractors are a different story.
I hope it will continue when she starts crawling in the next few weeks. Right now it seems like the sharing is totally on his terms and timing.

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Last week when Mia was sick I was on my way to put her in her bed and Austin proclaimed that he needed to go potty. I have become quite good and unbuttoning and pulling down pants and underwear one handed, so I did just that and got him on the potty while I ran upstairs to put my little sicky to bed.

When I came back down I checked in on him and he said he wasn't done. I went into the laundry room which was right next to the bathroom to switch the loads. A couple minutes later, I hear him say, "I make a car wash Mommy!"

I cringed. What could that mean?

I went into the bathroom and discovered.

Due to a old pull up style faucet, he can't turn on the water for himself, so while standing at the sink he decided to use the green foamy soap to wash the entire sink. Inside and out.

My white sink had a lovely shade of green with a nice apple scent.

I would have taken a blog picture but I was just too exhausted to go and get the camera. Sorry!

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Would you like to venture a guess as to what my son is eating in this picture?

I tinted it so as not to make it too obvious.

But, he has some in each hand.

Answer provided tomorrow!