Shadow Belly

Jess stopped actually throwing up earlier today, and has just slept a ton. He even felt good enough to come out on the porch swing for a while tonight while the kids played. He looked like this though:
Paige and Cason were playing this game where she tied a basket to a jump rope, and lowered it for Cason to fill with goodies she could pull up to the top. Then they cooked stew together, and she called him "partmer".
We had just left Jess alone for a while, to go to dance class, and then to Walmart to pick up a few things. So when we were home in the backyard she stopped playing out of nowhere and told us "We went to dance class and the store. But it's GREAT to be home with daddy NOW."
They also had me push them on the swing. I was standing there, and looked over to see my crazy gigantic bellied shadow, and it made me laugh.

Just In Time For The Weekend

Oh, I'm sorry. Did I say we were finally all healthy? My mistake. Jess started throwing up early this morning. How can it take a FULL week between the last sick person and him getting sick? In a few days it will have been 2 weeks since I got it. :(

His spot for today, and knowing him tomorrow and maybe Sunday too. (except for RIGHT now, when he's busy throwing up.)

Sleep Singer

The kids are still sleeping with us, because it hasn't quite cooled off enough for their room to be bearable. The other morning I woke up to Paige singing her ABCs. It was still really early, and dark out, so I rolled over to see why she was up. Jess was watching her, and I realized she wasn't up at all. She sang her entire ABCs in her sleep, including "...next time won't you sing with me!" It was awesome. Jess and I just smiled, and I rolled back over to go to sleep again. A few minutes later I heard her voice again. She goes "HUH?! Where's my wanich?(sandwich)" Haha.

They've been really tired lately, probably because they just finally got over being sick and hadn't slept well for about a week. So they've been passing out in strange places. In a fort she made in her room:
On the floor in her room while in timeout for a tantrum:
As for the boy, on the changing table DURING a diaper change:
They're having a fun week, with two extra aunts in town. Yesterday they decided they were cowboys, and Cassie was a wild stallion they captured and were trying to ride.
Tonight they made up a really weird game. Paige found a couple baby wipes in the baby room, and was taping them to people's arms. Then she and the person being taped would run up to the rest of the family and yell surprise. Weirdos.
Paige has had some attitude the last few days. She was in trouble a little while ago, and she ran crying to tell Jess I was mean to her. Cason followed her, trying to pat her on the head and saying "'S Okay Paige. 'S okay." Then he ran up to me and said "Mama, be nice." I just tried not to laugh and told him Paige needs to do what she's told and he yelled "NO!" and stormed off.

Sweetest Girl

Today out of nowhere Paige told me "You're a good mama. You're a GREAT mama."

:)

Cason's Day:

Wearing multiple wristbands from Grammy and Grampy.
Helping daddy. "WORKING, mama." he told me.
AND interrupting Jess's reading to force him to fly "planes" with him.

Baby Shower Weekend

Well, it's been a long week. Jess still hasn't gotten the stomach bug the rest of us had. Keep your fringers crossed please. As you can see I misspelled "fingers", but I think the word "fringers" is pretty funny, so instead of fixing it I've put it in bold to draw your attention to my mistake.

We spent the weekend at my dad's, house/dog sitting, so they get to have our germs all over their house. Actually I went pretty crazy with the laundry and the lysol, so they may be okay.

My baby "brunch" was yesterday. We called it that because it wasn't really a shower. It's my third baby after all, so I've built up a decent collection of clothes and everything. But everyone ignored us and brought gifts anyway. Not gonna pretend I don't love all of it though. Plus it made it feel a little more REAL that I'll have a baby soon!

A lot of loot for someone who wasn't gonna get gifts. Good stuff, picture frames, gift cards, and lots of cute clothes, diapers and wipes.
Cute goldfish shoes from aunt Teetee.
Awesome wooden scotties for the room from Sarah...
...along with burp cloths she made me, which I LOVE.
And Skye got me cute baby clothes, and a random gift she found for ME. SNAIL MEASURING CUPS. I LOVE THEM.
Thanks everyone, for coming, and for all the gifts.

Poor Paige threw up all late Thursday night and early Friday morning. Then she seemed okay until Saturday evening, when she tried to eat pizza and threw up twice. THEN she seemed fine again until tonight when she threw up out of nowhere like crazy at like 9 pm. She was so sad and told me when she finished, "I'm EVER EVER EVER (which means "never") gonna frow up AGAIN. EVER." Poor girl. Anyway, since we couldn't tell if she was really over it, I didn't bring her to my party Saturday, and Jess said she got sad after I left. She told him "I don't wanna have germs anymore." Sarah's shower was today, and it was really nice too. Paige couldn't come again, but she was starting to get used to being quarantined, so it didn't make her as sad as it did yesterday at least. Cason didn't care, as long as he could have some of the cake, so I made sure to bring a couple slices home for him. Sarah got LOTS of cute clothes and things for their little baby boy.

We also were supposed to go to Rylee's first birthday party, and if Paige had remembered she would've definitely been upset about missing that. Luckily she forgot, so I just sent a gift over. Don't want to get Rylee sick for her birthday.

Other than the showers, we hung out at dad's and did lots of resting and hopefully recovering.
And also lots of catching puke in a bucket or towel, whichever was easiest to grab. :(

Cason thought he was big stuff sitting at the bar for his breakfast.
And I think his feet hanging off the barstool were pretty dang cute.
When they felt good they played silly games, like this one that involved them shutting themselves inside the pantry and then doing this ghostly moan to scare us.
Cason would bust the door open suddenly, and cup his hands around his mouth to make sure we heard his spooky moaning. Then he'd go back to his cute cheerful voice and ask "I scare you, mama?"
Yeah, maybe we didn't pack that well for our stay at their house, so maybe Cason's wearing one of Paige's pink pullups there.

Somehow taking care of sick people all week didn't wear me out too much, so I was kind of productive the last few days too. I made myself a new diaper stacker to go along with the scottie theme.
I also repainted the scottie pictures. I never liked the original ones I did very much, I didn't think they looked "baby" enough for a nursery.
So I made the scotties a little more generic. I like them better. They're still missing something, but it's probably just that they need some more color. But I'll be waiting until the baby's here to add that, so I'll know if it should be blue or pink.
Now we're back home, and Jess is off tomorrow. :)

Our Week Thus Far

Sunday night:

Jess-healthy
Brandi-suddenly vomiting
Paige-suddenly has a fever
Cason-healthy

Monday:

Jess-healthy
Brandi-no vomiting, still nauseous. Spends day on couch with...
Paige-fever and cough
Cason-healthy

Tuesday:

Jess-healthy
Brandi-healthy
Paige-fever gone, little leftover cough
Cason-seemingly healthy

We even went out to eat, but then:

VERY early Wednesday morning:

Jess-suspects a cold may be coming on
Brandi-healthy
Paige-healthy
Cason-vomiting, vomiting, vomiting

Thursday:

Jess-getting a cold-fever and stuffed up
Brandi-healthy
Paige-fine until about 8 pm-starts vomiting, keeps vomiting. 3 times in an hour so far
Cason-vomits early in the morning, fine the rest of the day

An AWESOME week in other words.