Saturday, November 1, 2008

Halloween horror

Our Halloween turned out to be not so much fun. When Ally got up from her first nap, she was super thirsty. She drank two whole glasses of water. I was holding her while she was drinking and all of a sudden she started throwing up all over the place, including me. I felt so bad for her! I changed her clothes, and mine, cleaned up the kitchen, and began to make lunch. Ally kept resisting everything I would give her to eat or drink. I got her to drink a couple of sips of yogurt and milk but that was it. As I was beginning to take her out of her high chair, she throws up again. I didn't know a girl her size had so much fluids in her. Again I had to change her but this time she needed a bath. She seemed to enjoy being in the bath and after that I sat her and Emily down to watch Dora so I could clean the kitchen and myself. The rest of the day, Ally didn't eat a thing and she drank very little. Dave and I had been planning to go to our churches Fall Festival but we decided it would be best to just let Emily trick or treat around the neighborhood. When Dave got home he took Emily (who decided to be a carebear again this year) and Ally around the street trick or treating. The came back and Emily had a bag full of candy. I was suprised to see how much she actually got. We let Emily eat some of the candy and then put the girls to bed. Dave and I took turns handing out candy to the kids in our neighborhood. We had a ton of kids come to our house. I guess we are not used to that because we have never lived in a real neighborhood like we do now. This morning I woke up at 6 am hearing Emily throwing up in her bed. I had to change her sheets, her pjs and put her back to bed. An hour later she was yelling that she had to go to the bathroom so Dave went and got her up. By this time, everyone is awake and so we all get up. As Emily is using the bathroom, she runs out telling me she has to throw up. She made it to the bucket in time though, so there wasn't a huge mess to clean up! Ally seems to be doing better today although she is unenergetic, probably from lack of food. Emily has thrown up once more about an hour ago and now she has fallen asleep next to my chair on the floor. I know Emily is sick because I keep asking if she wants juice or crackers or candy and she says no to all of them! My poor babies! I can't say that I didn't see this coming though. Thursday, three kids got sent home from school because they were throwing up. One of the teachers told me there was a stomach bug going around. I was hoping and praying we wouldn't get it. I am thankful that they got it quickly because it is the weekend and we don't have any big plans to fulfill. Also, Dave is home and he can help me take care of them. I am really dissapointed about not going to the fall festival at our church or getting any pictures of the girls dressed up. But I know there are more important things in life, such as making sure my girls are comfortable as they can be while they are sick.

1 comment:

Kevin said...

Oh no!!It's official, school's the worst. Since Emily went with the same costume, you can just photoshop pictures of her from last year into some pictures in your new house. No one will know the difference.