& millie sick makes 3

*SIGH* i don't want the weekend to be over already. i'm ready for another 3 day weekend. i feel like being a toddler & throwing a magnificent tantrum. i'm so dern tired of someone in this house being sick! so now amelia has the terrible cold (mine was bad for 2 days & is now remarkably better) but poor millie is not doing well with it. she had a very rough day on saturday (okay, snot vomit is NAS-TY) with a high fever & a call to the pediatrician was made. thankfully, he didn't think we should rush anywhere, as long as she's eating. which she is eating, just not as much as she normally does (her usual is 6-8 oz per feeding 5 times a day, plus two rice cereal meals; today it's 2-4 oz 5 times, without rice cereal). today she's just pretty miserable, especially once she woke up from her morning nap (i guess we should be thankful she took a nap!) & someone had to be holding her the rest of the day. finally at about 6:45, she let us put her down into the jumparoo & smiled for about 15 minutes. glorious! i love her smile.

poor girl is going to be 5 months tomorrow. what a crappy way to ring in a mini-birthday. here's a picture of the only way she would fall asleep the rest of the day...in the bjorn. last night wes played hero dad & wouldn't let anyone else feed her at night. he gets this 'i want to take care of everything' thing going on sometimes. it's great b/c, ya know, he SPRINGS out of bed when he hears the sickie whimper & then hurdles laundry baskets & whatever else. seriously, he moves very fast for being asleep 1 second before. me, on the other hand...i'm probably still pulling the pillow off my head (i sleep with a pillow on my head...no, wes isn't trying to suffocate me! lol) & wondering where the heck wes is. he's like superhero. but being a superhero makes him tired the next afternoon. WAIT. maybe he plans it out b/c then he gets to take a nap with adeline...hhmm, i think i'm onto him now. really, that's the only way we could get addy to nap today (& boy did she need it; talk about grumpy toddler with no nap when half sick).

here's addy from today. she was upset b/c i wasn't letting her take the picture. she had a pretty good weekend after she had antibiotics in her to kick the double ear infection. plus, her grandma sue was here, so that's always fun & exciting! AND you must take note of her fly dora cup. she loves flinging the plastic straw part to send water flying everywhere.

this is the obama cookie my mother in law snagged for me from a party she went to this week. i did try to eat it after the picture was taken, but had a hard time eating the stiff icing. but the cookie is still pretty cool, eh?

millie & mama. another position that we had most of the evening. i think our noses are equally as red & swollen.

we somehow got about 2 more inches of snow today...it was the large, cold snow that's just amazing to see. even adeline agreed that it was beautiful. i am crossing my fingers that we will not get a new illness this week (tuesday & friday seems to be our witching days).

i don't have much to say tonight...i'm really bummed that millie is having such a rough go with this virus. there's nothing i can do besides some minor infant medicine & a humidifier, ya know? she just cries & cries. i just want a healthy family for awhile. i know kids get sick a lot, but this is absurd. we still have at least 2 more months of winter here in ohio; if we keep with our current numbers, that's at least 4 more illnesses for everyone.

*SIGH*

wes is watching "airwolf" & the music is so incredibly 80's & terrible. i feel like i should be bopping all around with leg warmers & those stretchy foot pants & my hair on top of my head in a side ponytail.