Sick kids and other fun stuff....

I wrote and scheduled all of this weeks posts on Tuesday, I am kind of glad I did. Sophia has been sick since Wednesday morning. All of Wednesday she had diarrhea, I assumed it was just because of all the apple juice she had been drinking. But I quickly realized that I had just bought the pack of apple juice boxes the day before, their were only two gone, and before that I hadn't bought any in two weeks. She seemed fine all day other than the diarrhea and ate alright, not great but okay. Then that evening she became feverish. Since then it has been down hill. She was cold, feverish, and still having diarrhea all day yesterday. I gave her some Imodium to help with the diarrhea but she still wouldn't eat or hardly drink anything. She laid on the couch all day.

Aidan joined her on the couch yesterday morning also. But she had vomited twice, once as we were getting into the van and once after she had been laying around for awhile. I knew it was coming, she woke me up at 6am with her howls. I gave her three options 1) lay in bed and be quiet, 2) get up and see if she is hungry, that maybe that's why her tummy hurt, or 3) get up and go poop. She choose #1, you have to be direct with her in order to keep the drama to a minimum. I don't feel guilty about being stern with her anymore, even when she does her best "kicked my puppy in the face" look of despair. After lunch, which she ate an entire sleeve of saltines and drank a whole bottle of water, she bounced around this house like a kangaroo on crack. Seriously, that irritates me to no end. If you are home sick you need to have the decency to ACT sick. Plus she wouldn't quit touching all over Delilah and getting in her face. Even after I told her multiple times to stop and how I didn't need Delilah to get it. I told her she doesn't have to take care of a sick baby, I do and frankly I don't want to.

Sophia on the other hand ate nothing, drank little (even though I pleaded with her), and laid on the couch drifting in and out of sleep all day long. I would only allow her to have a sheet, she was laying under an Afghan and her body was burning up. I realize why she did it, but I also realize she shouldn't be doing it. I alternated Tylenol and ibuprofen all day long. Didn't seem to help much. She has an appointment this morning. At least for the most part the diarrhea is gone. She needs to eat though and drink a lot more. She did drink a glass of chocolate milk last night (I know it's not the best thing for her, but I am desperate at this point) and she drank half a bottle of water in the night. But she also had a bout of diarrhea in the middle of the night and came into bed with me at 6am. At least Delilah is sleeping better and I hope if she gets the sickness, she gets the poopies not the pukies.

So that has been my life the last few days. One of the few times I have been almost beside myself without Kale here.

Hope everyone else has a better weekend then I may have. :P