Since February 13th we have been dealing with one sick child after another. For whatever reason when the kids got the stomach flu this time around it only affected them in the evening. I spent night after night up with one child and then the next holding their heads over buckets or cleaning up soiled sheets, pyjamas, pillows and blankets. At one point Emma threw up every night for seven days. She was soon followed by Walker and then Lillian. Luckily Lillian recovered quickly and was only up for a couple of nights but even she was sick enough that she got to the point that she would cry "my bucket, my bucket" when her little tummy would start to hurt. Today I finally feel like we are coming to the tail end of it. However, the fact that Walker went to bed at 6:20 tonight makes me think that his sweet little system still has some kinks to work out before he will be fully recovered like his sisters. So there may be a couple more sleepless nights ahead but tonight is the first night in weeks that I don't feel bedtime looming over me like a puke filled cloud ready to rain down on me at 2 o'clock in the morning. Sorry, that was graphic, but seriously I have done at least 30 loads of laundry in the last 3 weeks and only 8 of those were regular non-flu related loads. Today felt more normal, with Emma anxious to go to school without complaints of stomach cramps, Walker eating everything in sight and anxious to be out and about like usual and Lillian being her usual goofy self.
It is amazing that this blanket isn`t fused to his body with the amount of time that he has spent wrapped up in it since getting sick.
Every day Walker helps Lillian pull every last one of her board books out into the middle of her bedroom floor. She returns to them all day long or pushes them through the bars in her crib and then leads me by the hand to her room and says ``night, night`` which means that she wants to be in her crib with her books. I love that we have another little book worm in our home.
This kid is talking up a storm and it has made things pretty interesting around here. She can ask for nearly anything she wants...cheese, banana, book, Pooh, snack etc. which has taken the guessing out of things and made life easier. However, she has also learned to say ``please`` and with that has come the expectation that anytime she says please she will get whatever it is she is asking for. If she doesn`t get her way she clenches her little fists and hollers at the top of her little lungs until I can appease her with something else...usually a graham cracker or fruit snacks. Hopefully I can figure out how to nip that behavior in the bud as soon as possible.
Well, here`s hoping that health has been restored to our household and life can go on as usual. Wish me luck!!
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