Spring Break 2009...in a nutshell

It's Over...the kids went back to school today. I was actually kind of sad to see them go but I knew they were excited to go back and see all their friends.

Let's see...our week (without pictures...grrrrrrrr)...

Friday ~ We hung out around the house mostly, which was a good thing because that was the day Max and John and Lucy all got the stomach virus... yuck-o

Saturday ~ stayed close to home since Max and John and Lucy were still recovering.

Sunday ~ pretty much the same as Saturday, Max was still feeling bad off and on because he kept trying to eat stuff that his belly just wasn't ready for yet...BOYS DON'T LISTEN (yes, that includes their dads too).

Monday ~ John had the day off and we were determined to have some family time darn it! We set off for Sullivan's Island to go to the playground and Max just happened to mention that he wanted to go back to Fort Moultrie sometime...John and I decided that this would be "sometime". Had a great time and grabbed some snacks on the way home. I took the kids up to my parents' house to play with cousins for a couple hours...John stayed home to rest and get some work done.

Tuesday ~ My mom, sister Shea, and Shea's 4 kids came over to our house to play for a couple of hours. The kids had fun and after Lucy took her nap I got brave (read "desperate") and took all 3 kids to the store to buy some MUCH NEEDED groceries...not the best trip we ever had to the store and I'll leave it at that!

Wednesday ~ headed over to my parents' house again to play with cousins. Came home late again...having lots of fun :) We thought it was their last day in town :( ...

Thursday ~ got a call from my mom in the morning asking if we wanted to go to the aquarium. Shea and the kids were staying 1 more day :) Saw lots of fish and had lunch where a VERY RUDE man (customer) made a jerk of himself in the middle of the restaurant for all (including our 7 young children) to see. I hadn't planned on going to my parents' house that day...didn't even pack pj's for the kids...but they asked and I knew they'd have more fun playing with their cousins than with each other at home...so we went. Of course, the kids had a blast!

Friday ~ relax and chill at home so I could catch up on some housework. Lucy goes to bed and we think she is having a serious case of separation anxiety...nope...stomach bug again! Another looooooooong night.

Saturday ~ Neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt. John takes Max and Abby to find eggs while I stay here so Lucy can nap. Max gets a haircut. I take Max clothes shopping! He is NOT a good shopping buddy. Too much like his dad...walks in the store...picks up the first shirt he sees..."Here mom. I think this will look good on me. Are we done now?" UGH. I don't get very many shopping days and he does his best to dampen my parade. Fortunately my mom was there too so he didn't drive me too crazy! Looking forward to next Saturday when I get to take Abby...she's much more fun to shop with...no, I'm being serious...she really is :) I get some one on one time with my babies and get to shop...WOO HOO!

Sunday ~ Easter Sunday. Egg hunt in the house. Max played with the neighbor's grandkids and we went to my mom and dad's for Easter dinner...shrimp and chicken. I had already planned to make sweet potato casserole and although it wouldn't go too well with the entree John insisted I make it...HE LOVES THE STUFF. I also made deviled eggs for the first time ever and they were a hit! I think the key was the crumbled bacon I mixed in :)

Shipped my camera off today to get fixed. $28 to send it! I hope it gets fixed and is back here soon. Max's birthday party is on the 2nd.

So there you have it...our Spring Break...nothing fancy...but it was fun! Oh yeah, and Max lost his 2nd tooth!

Stomach virus...take two...and other stuff

sigh...
~Lucy somehow got the stomach bug AGAIN.
~Threw up from 10 - 12 last night.
~Diarrhea too...her bottom is all red and irritated.
~Finally fell asleep about 12:15.
~We slept in the recliner until 1:45.
~She slept well until she woke up at 6:30.
~Ate some saltines...drank some water...down for a nap at 8:15...waking up now at 10:45.

~John took Max and Abby out for the neighborhood Easter egg hunt. They had lots of fun. Too bad my camera is broke and I couldn't get any pictures...sigh...
~I'll be going to the post office today to send it off to get it fixed. Hopefully it will be back in time for Max's birthday party on May 2nd.
~Now John has taken Max and Abby to go get Max's hair cut.
~Gotta go give Lucy a bath...

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Gotta go get Lucy up!

Bedtime stories and Lullabies?????

HA!

I walked past Max's room last night at bedtime thinking John was reading Max a bedtime story...

What I saw was them looking at the map of Fort Moultrie that we got when we visited there on Monday (sight seeing in our own town kinda thing)...

I walked by again thinking the bedtime story might be happening...it was, more or less. John was reading him the history of Fort Moultrie on the pamphlet :) Max was fascinated by all the canons at the fort and wanted to know more about the war(s) that it was used in...

Abby is taking a break from having the theme to the Beverly Hillbillies as her lullaby. She now wants to sing the ABC's with as much emphasis as possible and then SHE sings to ME some of the songs she has learned in preschool.

It's not cute stories and twinkle twinkle little star for my kids! Apparently that's baby stuff now :) Yeah, Abby and Lucy were both "reading" a Dean Koontz novel the other day. Advanced I tell ya!

John and I are convinced the kids will be reading bedtime stories to us soon and tucking us in :)

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Rough Start...

So let's try this again...


Thursday my post was titled...Spring Break 2009! WooHoo!!!!


Should have been titled...Spring Break 2009! Blaaaaaaaaaaaa (don't know how to spell the throw up sound...sorry so graphic :(


Yep, I should have known better than to think I might be the only one to get the dreaded stomach virus and to be excited that my family was spared...HAH!


Friday afternoon about 1:30ish, Max started complaining of a stomachache...I put Lucy down for a nap about 2:30 and no more than 5 minutes later Max was throwing up...in the hallway...on the carpet...on his way to the bathroom...bless his heart. Oh, did I mention he had TOMATO SOUP FOR LUNCH!!!!! You get the picture on that one...


He was in my bathroom throwing up off and on, on and off, off and on........

After a couple of hours of this the poor thing finally was able to fall asleep...

John comes home with stomach pains and seems to be going down the same road as Max....

I give the girls a bath and as I get Lucy out of the tub...yep, she threw up...this happened every 30 minutes or so from 7pm -10:30

John started about 8ish and kept it up off and on through the night.

Max finally stopped about midnight...

LONG NIGHT!

As of today, Tuesday, April 7th...

Everyone has pretty much recovered. John is still frustrated that he doesn't have his appetite back completely :) That's my guy!

Max is having some issues with diarrhea after he eats but I think his stomach is just trying to ease into food still...

Lucy was fine after her bout and slept great Friday night once I knew she wasn't going to be sick anymore (I had been holding her in recliner). She threw up once last night on the way home from my parents house but I think she just had too much apple juice...she was fine afterwards.

We were able to go out as a family and do some spontaneous sight seeing yesterday and have had some good playtime with the cousins...but I'll save that for a later...throwup free post!

Gotta go to the store and buy food since my boys are getting their appetites back now!

Spring Break 2009! WooHoo!!!

Alright everyone! Spring Break starts now!!!

I have been sick for the past couple of days with a stomach bug so I wasn't able to make it to Max's class party today :( I felt bad about that so the girls and I picked him up about an hour early...in a monsoon I tell ya. Of course, at 2:35 when we would have been sitting in the carpool line to pick him up...it stopped raining...hmmmmm.

We don't have a whole lot of set plans for the week. John is off on Monday so we are going to try to do something as a family on that day. My sister Shea is coming down for a few days with her kids so we'll definitely have some "cousin time". I think the rest of the time we'll just play it by ear...park, library, children's museum, park (did I say that already?)

For the next couple of days we will be having a couple of houseguests. My sister Mallory's dogs, currently living with my parents (the dogs...not the sister) are coming to stay with us while my parents have some human houseguests. I told Max about it and he was SOOOOOO excited!

Unfortunately I won't have any pictures to show for it because my camera isn't working!!!!!!!!! I've got to send it off to have it fixed and it won't be back in time...UGH UGH UGH.

Well, off to get dinner for the kids...and maybe try to eat something myself besides dry toast.