'Tis the season (for throwing up)

The arsenal. No, not all at once. Are you crazy?!?!

Crackers, Pedialyte, a vomit tub, and big sissy reading to him. What could be better?

Sick lunch menu for Adelyn: crackers and plain ramen noodles. Yum!

Well, a happy happy Halloween to you! On this lovely fall day we find ourselves battling the worst of all ghouls--germs. Lots of them. They've been steadily invading our house the last several days. Colton is on day 3 (or is it 4?) of throwing up. Today Adelyn has joined the fun. And they both have explosive diarrhea. Fun times. Adelyn also has a pretty bad cold complete with coughing, a rattling chest, and copious amounts of green snot. Natalie is the last holdout...only time will tell. Despite the fact that the kids are sick, we're actually having a pretty pleasant day. Maybe it's because I inhaled a little too much Vicks Vaporub when I put it on Addy's chest a while ago perhaps? Or, more than likely, it's because sick days can actually be pleasant. Colton has let me read him a 100 page storybook about trains...twice. Adelyn keeps crawling in my lap to hear a story, and Natalie is happily plugging along with her schoolwork. Sick days force us to take it easy, stay close to one another, and of course clean up a few bodily fluids as well (that's the less glamorous element of this otherwise pleasant day). My point is, if today wasn't a sick day, I would have dropped Colton off at school, taught Natalie, went to Walmart, cleaned the house, etc. Instead, we're enjoying one another's company.

On another note, the kids are insisting on trick or treating tonight still. Would it be in poor taste for them to throw up on someone's doorstep and then ask them for candy?