Sickies and The "Why" Stage

So we have been hit with the plague. Well, not really, but the kiddos have been sick. It started with Ava on Thursday. When the kids are sick, we spend the days watching TV and eating whatever they want. It is a bad combo, but it makes the days a bit more doable. Thank heavens for On Demand because we have watched ALL the Mickey Mouse episodes like a million times (as Ava would say).

Here is Ava....



My poor little girl. She was sicker than she has been in the past. She might have caught a stomach bug. She ran a low grade fever the first evening. She wouldn't eat or drink anything. We had to force her to take baby sips here and there. She slept in our bed with me for 2 nights and Mike slept in the guest bedroom.
Here is how our sleep was the first night.

This is a picture of my fitbit. It tracks sleep at night. If you look close, all those red lines are movements during the night. It says I was "awakened" 40 times during the night. Pretty much she slept from 6:30-9 ish and was up until a little after 1 and then finally passed out until 4 ish. I wasn't as tired as I thought I was going to be, but it was pretty bad. At one point, I pulled out our travel video player and put a movie on for her to watch hoping that I would sleep, but she kept waking me complaining that her tummy hurt.  The 2nd night was better, she only woke up a couple of times, but I heard Noah cry here and there for about an hour as he is now sick. He ALWAYS gets it a day or two later. I am just crossing my fingers that Mike and I don't get it. I actually went out and bought airborn and have been doubling up on vitamins.

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Noah has officially hit the "why" stage. Everything is "why". Sometimes he follows it up with "cuz". He knows that is what we are going to say. ha!! Kids are so funny that way.

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The kids have yet another big box that they have made into a home.

They decorated it with stickers and colored all over it. Ava really wants to "bedazzle" it with all sorts of crafts, but because Noah still finds things to put in his mouth, I had to deny that for now.

Let's hope we are soon done being sick for a while. We have a busy February ahead.