We made it through!

We always wish that our children wouldn't grow up so quick and look so longingly at the pictures of when they were first born! Well, last week, it seemed like we turned back the clock and had a newborn in our house again, at least this time around I was in a much better mind space:)

This last week we experienced our first bout of sickness with Kaley. Tuesday afternoon she woke up from her nap and had gotten sick and it quickly turned into the flu that lasted until Friday night. The poor thing couldn't keep anything down and had a temperature and basically slept her way through most of the three days. At night, she woke up every couple of hours to drink some water and then slept fitfully the rest of the time. By Friday, she was keeping most of her food down and lived on a diet of liquids and rice cereal. On Saturday she was SO HUNGRY but her body just was not ready for regular food yet, so she got some chicken noodle soup which was a welcome change:) By the time Sunday rolled around, she was almost back to normal and had two good naps. The first one was during the worship service which she hasn't done since she was six months old! Although, it was really cute when she tried "talking" to daddy and couldn't figure out why he wasn't paying attention to her:) In the midst of her being sick, I enjoyed being able to put things aside and take care of her and got LOTS of snuggles in:)

Unfortunately, during this whole time, poor Mark was dealing with his own issues. He had a sore throat which quickly turned worse and he found himself in the ER at 6:00 in the morning because he couldn't deal with it anymore. The attendant that saw him told him it was a viral infection and to take cold and sinus medication! So, that was what he did. Long story short, he went to see our family doctor and the nurse practitioner took one look at him and said that had strep...yes this would have been helpful 10 days ago!!! Lovely, eh? Thankfully, Kaley did not catch anything while she was sick, so we are grateful. Here are some pictures of our week:

We should have known something was up when she was just laying on the floor doing nothing:)


Kaley having some special daddy comfort time!


Just not doing well!!! So sad, yet still so dramatic;)


She bent down to find her toy...and fell asleep while she was down there. why not?


We couldn't resist this, SO not happy to have her picture taken!


And finally, 6 days later, she is back to normal:)