Puke and Pictures

My 4 beautiful girls

My 20th month old picked up the stomach bug from somewhere.  In the middle of the night i hear *cough cough* followed by screaming and crying.  Which was odd cause she NEVER does that.  I head to her room to see whats the matter and comfort her, reach to pick her up and realize she is soaked.  At that instant, i knew she had puked.  "OH GREAT, OH CRAP!!" and maybe some other not so appropriate words came out of my mouth.  On goes the light, "sorry Madie" i say to my other daughter who shares a room with Ella.  The puke was EVERYWHERE!  The kid had barely eaten anything all day, obviously now i realize it was because she didnt feel well.  I have no idea how she could throw up this much liquid when she hadnt even consumed that in over 12 hours.  Anyways, back to it, it was everywhere, and i mean everywhere!  All over her face, hair and pj's, down the side of her dresser and onto the floor, all over her mattress, blankets, pillow and carpet.  Needless to say, i had to give her a quick "bath", which was really just a quick wash down and shampoo of the hair.  Handed her off to the hubby who held her while changed her sheets and got her some clean blankets to sleep with.  All of this taking no more than 20 min. prob.  And wouldnt ya know...6:30a and she's wide awake!! Which didnt matter much because for some reason my 3 month old, Aubrey, has decided that 4:45 or if im lucky, 5:15 is her new wake up time.  She wakes up so freaking happy and adorable and cooing, but still...shes awake!! And im tired....
11 am rolls around and i start making the girls lunch.  I can see Ella is tired and wants to go take a nap, but i like her to go after 11:30 at least.  She has refused food and has only drank water the whole day.  Remember, she didnt eat the day before and puked up a gallon in the middle of the night and has once again not eaten and has only had water and ONE bite of banana at about 10.  She didnt want in her high chair for lunch, so only Madisen is eating.  I sat down to nurse the baby.  Here comes Ella all tired and kinda whinny and lays her head next Aubrey on the nursing pillow.   No signs of anything about to erupt out of her again, but by golly it sure does.  This time, covering ME, aubrey, my nursing pillow, chair, and the living room carpet.  So i yell for Julia to come quickly so she can sit and take the baby for a min. Meanwhile i grab Ella, who managed to only get a little bit on herself.   How nice, thank you Ella :)  So i strip her down and clean up her face, then go get aubrey who, thankfully, didnt have but a little on her hair, most of it was on my nursing pillow and me.  Joy.  Cleaned up Aubrey and put her in the swing.  Im surprised at how calm Ella is being while i shuffle around as fast as i can so i can eventually get to cleaning ME off.  I can tell she is feeling better, well of course she is!  She just projectile vomited all over the place, i bet her tummy feels better! lol  Off she goes for a nap, im so nervous the rest of the day and all through the night that she would throw up again.  She didnt!  She even had some of her appetite back in the am, which made me nervous it would come flying up again too, but it hasnt.  She has kept it all down since monday afternoon.  

Today is election day!  But i am more excited that its my Nana and Papa's 63rd anniversary!!  They are such amazing people.  My nana has to be the nicest person ever, i dont think she has a mean bone or thought in her body.  She truly is a saint.  And i miss her everyday that im in AZ and cant see her.  I called her today and wished them a happy anniversary.  It just makes my heart smile when i talk to her, hug her or see her.  I Love you Nana!! 

So our whole house is organized and things are all put away from moving.  This doesnt count the normal mess in the kitchen from mail and/or school stuff.  And it most certainly does not count my bedroom.  Why is it so hard for me to get in there and clean that room!  Its like i look the other way everytime i go in there or i will freak out about how messy it is.  Aubrey is going to share our room.  She has her own little corner area and a whole wall that has her crib, dresser, etc. over there.  And we have baby clothes all over my dresser, boxes of stuff that have yet to find a place to be emptied too, and a closet full of boxes that have hangers, clothes, bathroom towels or whatever in them.  I just cant seem to get the energy or the want to go through all those and put them away.  I actually started to today when Aubrey was taking a little cat nap.  But then after lunch when Ella and Aubrey go down for a good nap, i tried to tackle it again but just couldnt finish it.  It is the only time of day i can get a shower in, unless its a day my husband isnt working.  Then i can get one in at any time really.  But the days its just me and the kids, nap time is the only time.  Then i did laundry and other house things before starting this.  I think i'll tackle it later this week.  Im thinking once i get the closet all organized, i can move in the boxes that are in my room that really have no place to be emptied and i can store them in the closet and out of my view.   Anyways...thats boring for everyone, sorry! lol

Maybe a few pictures will catch your attention again :)  I love taking pictures of my girls.  I wish i had a better camera.  There are much more updated ones now, and mine always makes a gray spot appear in all the pictures and i have to go through them one by one to take it out.  Its annoying. The other morning i took a few pictures of all of my girls together and then a few random ones.  Aubrey thinks she is like 6 months old or something!  She just turned 3 months old about a week ago! lol

Aubrey's 1st time in her exersaucer!

She likes it!

Silly Ella :)

My girls of course are still making me tons of cards and drawings.  I love them!  They are soooo cute!  Julia is old enough now that hers are turning more into stories but she still whips out a card or two, or twenty over the weekend.  Here is one from Julia and Madisen yesterday.

"i love you so so so much Mommy, and myself" by Julia

By Madie

Until next time...

A few morning acitivities

Its been quite the busy morning.  I decided to let Julia get lunch at school today.  They sent a calender home that says what is for breakfast and lunch each day.  They actually have a great menu here with very healthy choices each day and the kids arent allowed to only get like one thing, or a all of one thing.  It teaching them about making healthy choices, which we do at home as well.  She only gets school lunch once or maybe twice a month, but she likes the change.  I need to remember to bring money to add to her account.  Its $2.50 a lunch and $1 for breakfast but shes never eaten breakfast there.  It seems kinda expensive for a school lunch but i dont have a choice, another reason why she doesnt get to get it at school very often lol

Came home from walking Julia to school, served up snack a little bit later as i downed some more coffee lol.  Since Aubrey was playing on the floor in her play gym, i brought out the paper and crayons from the playroom to let Madie and Ella color.  Put Ella in her high chair and she got excited to color!  She did really great with the crayons too!  I think we are almost past the eating crayons stage.

So excited! :)

Proud of her pumpkin!

  There was still like an hour before lunch time, so after they colored a some paper pumpkins, i pulled out the play dough.  Ella actually did really good with that too.  She only had to be reminded a couple times about not eating that too :)  They played with the playdough all the way up until lunch time, PERFECT :)

Put Ella down for a nap and then off to my room to go through some baby clothes that Aubrey has already grown out of, and also go through some clean clothes to put in her drawers.  You wouldnt think that it would take so much time, but baby clothes are small.  And after having 3 girls before Aubrey, the wardrobe is NOT small and takes forever!  Aubrey was in her crib while i was dealing with the clothes, because i knew she was tired.  She kinda started to whine a little bit, but i patted her back for a couple min. and she was out.  Both youngsters are sleeping at the same time again, i hope this continues to be a schedule.  I like this mini break with just Madisen being awake.  Now if only i could get her to take a nap too!  Lol she's only 4 and 1/2, not too old yet.  haha  Speaking of her not being very old, she is right next to me reading books.  Like actually reading most of the words, and sounding out some.  Im so impressed!  All my hard work has and is paying off! :) 

Little Aubrey thinks she is pretty big too.  She isnt even 12 weeks yet, almost, but not yet.  And she is full on rolling over from her back to her stomach.  The earliest any of mine have done that, and my others were pretty early too, but like in the 4th month early, not 2 months! lol  She just did it for the first time on the 21st and now she does it everytime she is on her stomach.  What a big girl!! I pulled out the Bumbo seat for her today.  Decided to see if she could handle it for a few min.  Looking at her sit in that thing, you'd think she was much older than she is.

 I only let her sit in it for about 5 min. while i pulled some chicken out and marinaded it for tonight.  While on the topic of food, i am not going to get Organic bread anymore.  Maybe its the brand or something but i just cant keep up with it molding.  And we go through a lot of bread!  But everytime i get down to the last few slices they are started to mold between the pieces.  I freeze one of the loafs because it will surely go bad if the one in the pantry goes bad with in a week.  UGH, its frustrating!  I think we will go back to our Oatnut bread.

Well so far both babies are still sleeping.  Ella usually takes a 2 hour nap.  Aubrey is hit or miss, especially in her crib.  Going on 45 min. in her crib now though.  She has longer awake periods during the day, so her naps should start to become longer too.  She actually was awake for most of walk to and from Julia's school today.  That was a first! lol  Today was "wear your favorite sport team" day.  So of course i had her, Madie and Ella in the Oregon Ducks gear :) 

Madie says when im typing it sounds like music.  LOL huh??  I know i type pretty fast and she says the sounds of the keys going so fast sound like music.  hmm ok :)  Thanks Madisen! lol  And of course as i finished typing the last sentence, Aubrey has woken up and Madie has brought me a card lol.  Such a sweet card though.  Off to dust and clip the babies nails...

Those are shoulder pads!!  lol

Until next time...