The sickness came back!

Just a couple pics from before the sickness; this was over the weekend at the park.

I thought we were all through with the sickness, but I woke up to Price throwing up Monday morning. They had a vomiting illness almost a year ago to the day, but they only drank formula back then. This was a lot different. Thankfully, though it was just the one time, and he seemed pretty well back to normal. Then Tuesday night I got it - I got off easy with mostly just nausea last weekend, but last night it was the works - throwing up every hour on the hour most of the night. The scariest thing is the possibility of the kids catching it. With their VLCAD, a sickness like what I had last night would land them in the ER, no doubt. So Chris stayed home from work today and cared for the kids, and I was quarantined to our bedroom ALL day long. Hard to believe it is 6pm and I am just now blogging! I told Chris I need a day like this (without the sickness) once a quarter! I missed the babies so much - it was so sad just to be able to see them on the monitor playing in their playroom or in their cribs and not be able to go be with them. So here's a pic of Chris everytime he had to come in the same room as me.

Funny, right? hmph. Guess it is better safe than sorry.

Family pics

We had a big weekend planned for this past weekend. Friday night we were going out with friends, Saturday was family pictures, and I was going to meet a girlfriend for dinner, and Sunday we were supposed to go to a wedding. But then the sickness came...Friday night we tried going out but I was nauseous and so we had to bail before 10. Saturday, we did all make the pics, but the rest of the day was shot. Chris was in bed from 3pm Sat until 5am Sunday. I did think I was better by Saturday afternoon and had a friend over to play for a little while - unfortunately it turned out we were quite contageous as well. Funny thing though, the kids never got it (Praise GOD!). Price actually seemed to have a touch of something, but I think it might have been related to teething (5 teeth in 3 weeks. 4 of them molars ... ouch!). And Sunday was a waste as well - just recooperating from the beating of being sick for 24 hours. But at least the pics turned out pretty good! Yes, you'll be seeing these again when I send out Christmas cards!

Learning to color

Well, mama took another girls trip. Kendra and I headed to New Jersey to see our friend, Laura that had a baby boy, Jack, at the end of July. So Chris was on his own for 4 whole days! My mom was not even in town to help out - and no babysitters available. So he was really on his own. He did a great job though, and I am so proud that a)he is willing to take this on and b)that he can actually do a good job and c)that he didn't complain!! When I came home the babies had learned to raise their hands and say "Touchdown!" but alas they had not learned to color. Guess those Crayolas just taste too good!

Fun night out!

On September 19th, we got together to celebrate Kendra's birthday - now she is old like us. We had a fun night out with the McDaniels and the Hammonds, having dinner at Taverna, drinks at Reatta, and home before midnight; my how things have changed!

A couple funny stories...

The pic is not related, just cute!

1. We have had some teething issues as of late. Price had 2 molars break through last week. So the days leading up to this, really the nights, were brutal. He would wake up in the night and just scream out in pain. It was so sad. Well the first night, I just did not realize what it was, so my last resort (and 3rd time up with him w/in about an hour and a half) was medicine. So Chris came up with an acronym (sorry it is slightly inappropriate, if you think of the worst possible way this could be pronounced) M-FCR. But it stands for Medicate, Feed, Change, Rock. This has been quite effective going forward!

2. Price responds to the direction "Cierra la puerta" which is "close the door" in Spanish. I say it enough I guess, and just realized that he complied when I said it! So maybe that is the delay - he is speaking Spanish, not English! ha ha.

Ah-oh....

before
Well, we had a little accident this weekend. After a nice walk, enjoying the beautiful post-Ike weather, we were just playing outside. Price went running after Charis and did a face-plant on the driveway. She is such a cautious child, these sorts of things never seem to happen to her. Price like his Daddy, is kind of a "bull in a China shop" - he just goes, without really worrying about anything, least of all being careful. I was hoping it would look a litte better by this morning, but it actually looks worse!

Lounging around, braving the storm

(Left: Charis playing with her "pa-zhol")

(Right: Price peeking out of the little closet under the stairs)

With the impending hurricane, Ike, this weekend, I was all prepared for a weekend indoors. We did get out once to go to Target, to make sure we had necessities in case things got too bad, which of course they did not! But these are just some pics of the kids playing inside - not too different from any other day, really!

(Left: Charis on a mission with her soccer ball)

(Right: Price at the top of the stairs, which he climbed by himself, but thankfully does not try to descend by himself!)