I've finally had a chance to go through and edit some pictures from the past few days and I'll spend the next couple of posts catching up a bit....but a little backwards I guess as I'll be starting with today.
It's Monday and the kids and I are all at home. As I mentioned in my last post, both kids hads moments of being sick yesterday, so we stayed home to work on getting well today. Poor baby G - looks so sad, doesn't he?
Let's jump back in time a little bit to yesterday (Sunday). Wil brought them back over in the morning and we had breakfast together. After breakfast I thought it would be fun to take Graham out for a ride on his new bike. I pushed Ellie in her stroller and Graham rode alongside of us....
He did great for his first time out and was super tough when it didn't go so great - "I'm ok, I'm ok" anytime he fell off. We're still working on steering while pedaling, not going too fast and spinning out of control, and watching where we are going. Grandma Chery met us along the way and walked back home with us. Graham had such a blast and I think really felt like a big boy out there on the bike.
We spent a lot of time outside in the afternoon too and Graham brought me these pretty flowers from our yard....
Since we spent a lot of time outside, I wasn't surprised to see Ellie fall asleep before finishing her lunch....
And I wasn't suprised to see Graham fall asleep on the couch while watching a tv show....
I was a little surprised to see Ellie lay down on the pillows and lay pretty still for awhile after getting up from her THREE HOUR nap....
And this my friends is where things started to go a little sideways.
Shortly after I took this picture Ellie got up and got sick. She seemed ok after that and did fine for the rest of the night - slept all the way through until about 6am!
Graham was fine until bedtime rolled around. As we were reading stories he started complaining about his tummy hurting - he was holding it and just seemed uncomfortable. He ended up getting sick twice before falling asleep and once at 1:30am when he woke up. By morning he looked like this....
He got sick one more time before breakfast then throughout the day got more and more of his energy back - by the time I put Ellie down for a nap he was begging to play his Diego Wii game and go outside to play.
I want to take a minute to point out the little record album laying on Graham's blanket - you may notice it was also in the first picture of this post. We found that while walking yesterday and he's been a little bit obsessed with it. He has been taking it everywhere with him - not sure what it's all about. It took awhile to explain what it is, and I'm pretty sure he still doesn't really get it as he keeps wanting to put it in the Wii or somewhere in my computer. I'm going to have to do some googling to show him how it works :)
Ellie stayed home with us today too 'cause I didn't know how she would be feeling. She looked like this much of the day....
Crazy, crazy girl - sassy and full of energy. She's developing quite a little BIG personality, complete with temper tantrums, squealing with delight and distress, and all kinds of new words.
I tried for an early bedtime and both kids fell asleep quickly. I think we'll be back to "normal" tomorrow - heading to work and daycare. Thankfully we don't see sick very often here, and for that I am very grateful. I know how lucky I am to have happy and healthy children and that's something I tried to keep at the front of my mind today :)
