So Much Sickness

Yesterday was rough. I woke up with the beginnings of a pretty bad cold. I was all stuffed up and my throat was SO sore. To top it off I got to get out of bed and throw up because the morning sickness was pretty bad too. Cason and Paige followed me when I ran for the bathroom. I was worried they'd be freaked out watching me puke, but I couldn't do anything about it at the moment. They were fine though. They stood one on each side of me, pretending to cough and throw up with me. When I was between heaves Paige would ask, "Should I flush now?" Ha. I spent the day on the couch, so no new pictures. Sorry. I'd have to walk across the house to get the camera, for that. :)

This morning I felt a little better, and we had my first appointment. Nothing exciting, just a health history questionnaire and a pregnancy test. Paige was so cute though, all excited to go check on the baby. When we were walking out she kept saying "But we're not done." I said "Yeah, that's all this time." Finally as we walked toward the door she goes "But where's our baby?" Poor thing thought we were going to get her out today. Haha.

Anyway, we're all getting sick now. Cason is all stuffy and has a croupy cough. Jess leaves for Chicago for work on Saturday morning, and doesn't get back until Tuesday. So of course I'm devastated. Wish us luck.

Easta

Sorry, I thought the morning sickness was fading, but no such luck. I'm coming up on the end of my first trimester already, so I hope it doesn't keep going.

Anyway, Paige and Cason have been pretty funny lately. Cason was REALLY clingy the last few weeks, he only wanted me. He was happy when Jess would get home from work, but he still wanted me holding him. One day I was trying to do laundry, and I just had to make one quick trip to my room to get a basket, and he wanted me to pick him up. I said just a second buddy, and I'll pick you up. He ran after me crying and screaming with his arms in the air. I said "just follow me." So he started crying even harder and screamed "PEEEEASE!" So I felt bad and went to pick him up. As soon as I had him he threw his arms around my neck and cuddled up really close and said "Good girl." like he does to Gia. Haha.

Yesterday Paige asked me for a sandwich, "with mayonnaise and cheese!" I made it and brought it to her and she said "not right now" because she was playing. I said "Paige, you asked me for a sandwich, and I made one for you, so you should eat it." She hesitated for a second, and then said "WELL....I don't believe that." Haha. I have no idea.

Anyway, here are some pics from Easter. They were both really into coloring eggs.
Also finding them. Cason holds his egg up victoriously.
Although Paige had to take some slide breaks, mid-hunt.
The were of course excited about all their Easter gifts too.
Oh, and I got to take Paige to see How To Train Your Dragon last night, because I wanted to see it too. It's so good. Jess also failed to mention how dang cute Paige looked in her GI GAN TIC 3D glasses. They stuck out like 2 inches on each side of her face. She was all serious wearing them.

Nomads

Jess found out Tuesday that he was going to Phoenix for work on Thursday. So we went along. We left Wednesday afternoon, stayed the night, and came home when he got out today. We didn't do anything exciting, just went along to be with him. We didn't even go in a single store. Just restaurants and gas stations. On the way there we stopped at McDonalds, where they had How To Train Your Dragon happy meals. The kids were VERY pleased with their dragon toys, and the fact that the happy meal box could be turned into a viking helmet.
I like this almost cross-eyed focusing on the straw face.
That's about all we did. Ate, watched cartoons in the hotel until they forced us to check out,
went to a park, and when we still hadn't burned enough time for Jess to be out of his meeting, we hung out in the car in a random parking lot for the last 20 minutes.
Here's an unrelated picture. Alex and Faith stayed over the other night. Cason was careful to watch the movie exactly the way Alex did, face resting on his hands and all.

Potty Time

Today Cason went #2 in the potty, and #1 TWICE! We had no plans to start potty training, but when Paige needed to go he hopped on first, so Jess got him the little potty so that he'd let Paige use the big one. He really wanted his diaper off, so we took it off and he went! It may be short lived, but who knows. What a guy.

We pretty much stayed home all weekend, eating, playing legos....
...watching movies, and talking about horses. (That may have been just me) Jess and I will have our 5th anniversary in May, but he already bought all my gifts like 2 months ago. Then he slowly gave them all to me early, even though it wasn't the plan. One was Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken on dvd. Cason and I watched it twice in a row. I'm talking it ended, and we immediately hit play again. It's like we're both 19 months old. Cason took a break to play with a potato he stole from chef Jess, who was frying some up for me.
Tonight he grilled some steaks.
I'm craving way different foods this time. The only things I've really wanted are steak and mashed potatoes, and bacon and mushrooms. Usually I just want chocolate cake. Ha. I don't know what that means about this baby. The kids took turns very nicely on the swing while he grilled.
Then Paige of course didn't want to eat, and the rest of us ate until we were much too full for our own good.
We DID leave the house so Cason and I could drop Jess and Paige off to watch How To Train Your Dragon, which they loved, and they finally showed in 3D here! Paige was quite pleased to get a poster, which is hanging in her room.
We put Paige to work, too.
Haha. She BEGS to clean that window for me. She probably gets tired of not being able to see through the dog slobber I never clean off of it.

I Shall Obtain A Horse

When Paige was born she had her days and nights backwards. She slept all day and was awake a lot more at night. Jess had taken a week off of work, so we just went with it. That was the best week ever. Jess was home, we had our new sweet baby, AND after worrying for months if I'd know how to take care of her I was pleasantly surprised to find it was the easiest, most natural thing I'd ever done, and we were as happy as we'd ever been. Jess also took care of me all week since I was still recovering. :) I still get nostalgic when I eat saltines with cream cheese on them, because for some reason that was the main snack we'd eat. We'd watch movies while she "napped" at 1 am, and if she woke up to eat I'd feed her and watch Jess play Shadow of the Colossus. Yes, as incredibly cool as we appear we're actually nerds. He beat 15 giants, and then GAVE UP after trying to beat the last one for a long time. He said he'd try again "later". I had been watching him play that like it was a movie, and he left me hanging on the ending. Well, over 3 years later, he finally tried again for me. He still failed, so we cheated and went online to find the secret. So I finally got to see him beat the last giant. Anyway, last night Paige and I played it some.
We like it because you have a big black horse to ride. And now my long dormant horse obsession is renewed. Actually I don't know how I've held back this long. I just hadn't realized I'm a grownup now and I get to choose whether or not to buy a horse. I nearly died several times, of heartbreak when I couldn't have one as a kid. I only survived because my stepdad's uncle had a boarding stable and I could go work there after school every day in exchange for riding one of his horses. Getting a horse is now in my 5 year plan. Actually I didn't have a 5 year plan before this, so getting a horse IS my 5 year plan. Paige is pumped. Cason will probably be even more pumped. He wants to be a cowboy I think. Sort of related, Cason has the most impressive "neigh" I've heard.

2 Days Of Blogging In A ROW!!???!!

Events of late last night:

One of Paige's most recent Netflix choices was Handy Manny. SO when Jess had to replace the batteries in the Rock'N'Roar Dinosaur, they had to help while pretending to be Handy Manny's tools.
Then Cason painted his face SO joyfully. That's my favorite thing about our kids, they are always SO full of real joy. They're excited about everything. It's wonderful. He laughed out loud after each swipe of his finger. It's funny because AS he was doing this I was reading Nicole's post about Delaney painting her own fingers. Needless to say there was a bath almost immediately following this picture.
Events of Tonight:

Eating oreo truffles, and then a game of pirates. Paige decided she needed a parrot for her shoulder and an eye patch too this time. We did what we could with what we had on hand. Cason had a lot of issues with his "parrot". He can't help but keep touching it, and since it was only held to his shoulder by a roll of masking tape, it kept falling off. He was so frustrated.
The girl calls herself "Paptain Paige."

Break Over

Well, spring break is over for Jess. He goes to work in the morning. Not sure if we'll survive. It wasn't much of a "break" for him though, since I felt okay one day and really sick the next. So he spent most of it doing all the work around here. I felt decent a few days though, so we'd spend a lot of time outside. The kids played.
Jess worked on a little wall along the fence behind the playset.
Paige worked on making sure each and every block had its' own pile of dirt.
She also made sure her playhouse had flowers.
We spent the rest of our time hanging out inside, watching movies, wrestling,
and there was a lot of playing princess.
At one point she played princess in need of rescuing, on the slide. She was sliding down on her belly, feet first, but hanging on to the top of the slide and asking Cason the prince to save her. Instead he tried to push her down, so Jess called him the villain. After that Paige would yell "HELP PRINCE VILLAIN!" She thought it was his prince name. :)