I was interrupted this morning during my snooze/nursing time with Josiah to Ace fussing. When I went in to check on him, he said he wasn’t feeling good (a common term he uses for general complaints) and that his belly was hurting (again common for him to say). I started reassuring him and trying to coax him back to sleep when he started to heave. Aggghhh! We made it to the bathroom and he threw up and continued to do so until about 8:30 this morning. He even threw up water. Yuck. He was so pitiful about it. He slowly ate a toaster strudel (probably not the best choice, but that’s what we had since it’s the end of the month and I was planning on grocery shopping) and swallowed down two glasses of milk (again all I had for an upset stomach) and then he was off to play. He acted fine the rest of the morning and was great when we went out to just get juice but also some coupon buys.

I think Josiah may have it too. He’s choked a couple of times and then has also spit up a lot and he threw up on me yesterday during supper (lovely). I just pray the rest of us don’t get it.

I’m becoming a germaphobe and washing hands every chance I get!

We had some friends over tonight for supper and while they were playing after supper, Ace came up to me.

This is what I thought he said, “Mommy, can you get the boogie out of my nose.”

When I asked for him to repeat it this is what he actually said, “Mommy, can you get the mawble out of my nose.” And then he proceeds to dig where the marble is.

I lean his head waaaay back and sure enough…tiny bead in nose.

Luckily, our visiting friends said to plug the other side and get him to blow. That did the trick and it slowly came out. I gagged!

Double Gross! No, I didn’t get a picture of the marble or Ace because I thought he was fixing to push it all the way down his throat and that’s just plain gross! After he got it out, he asked for it back. I asked him how it got there.

“I pushed it there.” Duh!

It looks like Liam wants to be a pirate. During school time, Liam had a collision with someone or something and injured his eye. This all happened yesterday. I was worried for a little while because he kept rubbing it and it kept watering. He’s much better today and we actually saw the “old” Liam for a long time at MOPS. He’s really adjusting well and feeling much better. Very little “Hol’ me”‘s were spoken today. He had a lot of fun at MOPS and didn’t fuss at all when I went to the meeting.

His first sentence was “May I be excused please?” Probably because we get him to repeat it word by word to us before he gets up from the table. And, no, it didn’t come out that clear but it was recognizable by Mark and myself.

Zoe’s teaching him phrases too. Yesterday they worked on, “I don’t know.” Which his came out “I know,” in a cute high pitched voice. It was very cute. She’s enjoying having a little one to teach all sorts of stuff. He gets a kick out of making her laugh and will repeat the phrases over and over again much to her delight.

Ace was actually saying, “Ho! Santa” Not “Hosanna.”

At breakfast today here was the conversation:

Ace: Hosanna is coming.

Zoe: Who?

Ace: Hosanna is coming. To bring us presents.

Zoe: Oh, you mean Santa.

Yesterday was towel/sheet wash day and I instructed Ace to go to his bathroom and get all the dirty towels and the washcloths that he could reach. As I was loading the washer, I noticed a lot of washcloths. I went back to his bathroom and discovered he had taken almost all of the “clean” washcloths from the drawer and brought them downstairs to be washed. Now they’re extra clean.

My plans for today included getting up and grabbing breakfast (since we had no milk, oj or eggs) and head to the gym. Then after the gym, go to Wally World for our monthly grocery run and to restock on the weeklys (bread, milk, oj). Then we would head home happy and content and fix lunch then clean up and head to bed for naptime.

However, plans change.

Liam woke up this morning with a fever. This is on top of his runny nose that has been going on for almost two weeks. So, we skipped the gym and headed straight to the big store for groceries and drugs.

Monday while we at Josiah’s check up, Dr. B checked Liam’s ears again since he was still runny. His ear had clear fluid in it but no signs of an infection. She started out saying that we could bring him in if he didn’t get better or if he started running a fever, then she decided to just write out teh prescription if we needed it. Needless to say, we needed it and now he’s on zithromax. I feel so bad for him. He feels really yucky and you can tell. I’ve tried motrin and it didn’t keep the fever down long so we’ve added tylenol into the rotation.

Sick season has started in our house!