Sickies

So the theme for our week was sick.

On Monday Dec. 7 Jack went for his ophthalmology checkup.  He is doing great. The whole goal of the surgery and his glasses is that when he is looking straight ahead, his eyes are aligned.  And they are.  He sometimes has alignment issues when he's looking up or down because the movement of that left eye is so limited.  But overall, he does well.  And they kept the same prescription on his glasses.  That was a good morning and then a we did grocery swap.  And then right after dinner Jack grabbed his blankie and came to snuggle on my lap.  **DANGER**!!! So he gagged and I turned him around just in time so his tossed cookies hit the floor and not me. phew!  The best part was Megan who is super anxious about throwing up was completely hysterical.  Like shaking and sobbing and telling us she just wanted Jack to leave.  We calmed her down and cleaned Jack up just in time for him to throw up once more, on the carpet, and right by Megan.  She did not love that ;).  So we cleaned up some more while Megan sat alone in the study to avoid Jack!   Pretty exciting.  He was done throwing up around 11 pm and then slept good.  And Megan was only up once.  

 

 

Tuesday morning Dec. 8, I woke up to Candy dry heaving just outside my door and Megan freaking out again.  I took the big girls to school and had a nice quiet day of movies and Sprite and saltines with my little sickies.  By dinner they were fine.

 

Wednesday the weather was awesome, sunny and 75 and we had playgroup at my favorite park, Mercer Arboretum.  Megan went to activity days and they took thank you notes to the primary leaders.

 

Then just after bedtime Wednesday night, Megan came down looking a little green.  Her turn.  She was surprisingly not flipping out at actually being sick. She was mad that her body would dare to be sick, but she wasn't scared.  And then I got sick in the middle of the night.  But by morning both of us were on the mend.  So we stayed home on Thursday while Candy went to joy school and Brooke went to school. 

 

Friday was Brooke's turn.  So Meg went to school and Brooke was home.  Dan worked from home that day which was great so I could get some Christmas shopping done.  I took Jack with me but left Candy and Brooke watching movies while Dan worked. That night Dan took Megan and Candy to the ward party for the ward he is on the high council for.  They had fun. 

 

Saturday Dec. 12 I had a baby shower to go to in the morning, Dan took his car in to fix the brakes, and in the afternoon  we went to Jenn and Chris Roundy's for a graduation party for Chris.  He is now a doctor of chiropractic medicine.  It was fun to catch up with all the Talbots.  I watched our kids and the Tracy's that night while Dan and the Tracy's went to the adult session of stake conference.
I took this pic on a walk with the kids Saturday morning just to document that fall does eventually get to Houston.  It's just in December!

Yesterday was a nice Sunday.  We sat by cousins for stake conference and it was really good.  Our stake president likes to issue a challenge at each conference and this time the challenge was to find someone we need to forgive in our lives and forgive them.  After church we decorated ginger bread cookies at Ali's house and then went to a dessert potluck to say hi to a friend who used to live in the ward that was visiting.  

 

My cute boy watching birds in the backyard and all dressed up for church on Dec. 13.  I love him.

 

Then just to top off our week, Brooke threw up one more time Sunday night.  She slept great and ate breakfast and is running around, so I'm going to take her to school a little late. Hopefully I don't regret that! (*I didn't.  She stayed the whole day at school and was fine)