August 27 = Pitiful Girl Day

Aaaaaand we're sick again.  Poor Malia woke up with lots of yucky stuff in her eyes- Liam never had this happen but when Malia gets sick, she has stuff come out of her eyes!  Poor little thing.

August 24 = Sick Day

Monday is CDC day!  I took Liam this morning and then took Malia to Babies in Bloom at the library.  A girl sitting near her had an identical doll to one Malia has so obviously, she thought it was hers and didn't like that I didn't let her play with it.  That resulted in us having to leave the room but I found some cool magazines and we got home a little earlier than we had planned which allowed me to get more stuff done!  I then had to take Malia to the CDC so I could go to my therapy appointment alone this time since last week didn't work out so well.  As I was leaving, this was on our doorstep: Liam's new tablet!

I dropped Malia off without any incidents!  And then I went to my appointment.  I brought several magazines so I didn't notice it was 17 minutes past my appointment- I texted my therapist but didn't hear back from her so after 40 minutes I left and went back to the library to kill time.  She texted me and reminded me she told me last week she had to cancel today's appointment.  Oops.  So then I picked the kids up and we headed home.  Liam was a little sluggish and fell asleep in the playroom.  I woke him up to go to the gym but he was not excited about it- which was weird.  I dropped both kids off in the kids club and went to my core class which I haven't been to in weeks!  Zachary got to the gym a few minutes later and as I was setting up, I looked up at the window beside me and he was creepily staring at me trying to freak me out- we got a good laugh out of it.  About ten minutes later, as I was doing some intense squats, I felt him staring at me again but this time it was because he needed the keys- Liam had thrown up in the kids club.  So we headed home and boy was he in a mood.  He was pushing, throwing, kicking, yelling- it was a rough evening.  He did love the tablet though!

August 17 = Take Malia to Appointment Day

I had today so beautifully planned out.  I was finally feeling better so I dropped Liam off at the CDC as I do every Monday and then Malia and I did a little shopping.  I got Liam this really cool Mickey Mouse Busy Book- there's a story but in the back of the book there are 12 little figurines and a playmat with the clubhouse and different things he can recognize from the TV show.  Then I was going to drop Malia off at the CDC at 1:00 so I could go to my therapy appointment at 1:30 by myself and have a little reading time before my therapist took me back.  So I go inside to drop Malia off and she's turned one since the last time we were there so she was going to a new room.  The receptionist asked if we had shoes for her- which I didn't- and so I was informed that the new room she's in requires the kids to wear shoes.  So Malia came with me to my therapy appointment.  I sent this picture to Zachary asking him to come over if he was able- the office is two minutes away from the Academy.  He tried his best to get there in time but it wasn't meant to be.

 Here's Liam playing with his new figurines and playmat!

And then it hit him.  Now he's got whatever it is I had.  Which means lots of snuggle time.  I would never wish for my kids to be sick but if they have to be sick, I don't hate the snuggles are a side effect!

August 14 = Sick Day

Well whatever happened in yoga was just a precursor.  I woke up this morning and felt awful.  I muddled through getting ready, got Liam to the CDC and even went grocery shopping but when I got home I immediately put poor Malia down for a nap and laid down myself.  Over the next hour I woke up six times alternating between sweating and shivering.  I texted Zachary and he suggested I see if Liam could stay at the CDC for a little longer so that he could pick him up.  So I called and thankfully it worked out.  Soon after Malia got up from her nap, Zachary came home and got her and picked up Liam.  This was my sweet girl between nap and when Zachary got home:

When he came home from getting Liam he had chicken noodle soup, crackers, lemonade and twix bars.  He said the soup was for when I was shivering and the lemonade was for when I was sweating.  So thoughtful!  Oh!  And he got me a card!  It said "Sending happy thoughts... and get well wishes."  And he signed it "Thank you for always taking care of us.  We hope you feel better and we love you."  How sweet!

So he handled everything for the whole night and as we were going to sleep I said thank you for taking care of the kids today and he said, "thank you for taking care of everything every day."  I hate that I was sick but it felt really good to be so appreciated!

January 6 = Snow Day

Now Liam, Malia and I are all sick.  Zachary woke me up to tell me it was snowing and I immediately felt absolutely awful.  I am not a huge fan of snow.  It's pretty to look at for the first 10 minutes before people and cars travel through it, making it a dirty, wet mess. 

 

Malia woke up around the same time that Zachary had to go to class so I went to feed her and could tell she felt about the same way I did.  When I went to get Liam out of bed, he just looked up at me with these sad eyes like, "Nope, not time yet."  So I gave him a cereal bar in his crib and let him take his time getting up.  After checking on him five times, he finally seemed willing to get out of bed so I changed his diaper but kept him in his warm, comfortable PJs and we, all three, sat on the couch.

 

We survived the morning- mainly because both babies felt so terribly, they didn't give me too much trouble and because I knew before Zachary came home, he was stopping by the drug store to get me some much needed medicinal relief- we were completely out of all cold medicines.  He surprised me by also coming home with these:

Liam had a few days on me and Malia so he started feeling better that afternoon and, completely on his own, started rocking Malia in her rock 'n' play while we were making dinner- such a sweet moment!

January 3 = Tricycle Day

Liam's sick.  You can tell by the fact that I was able to get a picture of him sitting with Grammy- he sat with her all morning and was very mellow.

To try to make him feel better, Zachary put together Radio Flyer tricycle that Pops & Grandma got Liam a while ago.  His curiosity was piqued.

 And then he changed his mind...

And then he let Daddy push him around for a little while.

He's not quite ready to ride yet but he did enjoy pushing it around the apartment after these pictures were taken!