Week 30.5 ~ 7 months old
Kohlden: 16 lbs 9 oz
Madelyn: 15 lbs 9 oz
Living in Florida you encounter bugs. Lots of them. Mosquitos, roaches, spiders. You name it, we got 'em. Back in high school we even collected bugs for our biology class. Actually one of my favorite projects; I still have the specimen collection, scientific labels and all. But the one bug I never wanted to catch, as I'm sure most people don't, is the stomach one. The worst kind. Alas, the twins and Braelyn got it last week (as posted by Uncle Mike) and unfortunately their parents were finally bitten by it as well and subject to it's rather unpleasant side effects last weekend.
If you could call our house condemned, I likened it to the days when hospitals were fighting yellow fever with only a fly swatter. I'll spare the details: vomiting, nausea, loose bowels, sleeplessness, diharrea, dysentery, scurvy, well, you get the picture. Not pretty. Not even close. I'm surprised Orange County Health Services didn't come over to quarantine us. We even had to miss my cousin's little wedding ceremony because we dared not infect the other members of the family, much less the newlyweds.
Unfortunately with being sick, the kids couldn't go back to daycare (with good reason, although it was there they got it in the first place) and I lost 3 days of work. Luckily I was able to speak with one of the directors of Starchild, one I've had a good rapport with from the beginning, and convinced him to give me a half week's credit on the twins, since they only stayed at school for 2 days. At $200 per week per child, that was a big deal!
By the way, here is a picture of the finished nursery for the twins, with Maddy's new crib to the right. It is also one of those "Crib 4 Life" ones but a different model since the one Kohl has is Braelyn's original and they don't manufacture that model anymore, although we were able to match the color. It blends nicely with a little more elegance to go with it's feminine occupant.
So aside from the sickness here are some picture highlights of the week:
Braelyn is growing and developing into this amazingly smart and independant little person. No need for Mommy or Daddy's help anymore, now she'll just use whatever tools she can to get what she wants. Mommy took her to get new shoes for school and as they looked at all the different styles Braelyn stated adamantly that she couldn't have "that one" because another girl at school has the same pair. There must've been at least 5 different styles she would not touch. Thank goodness there were 6 styles available. Sheesh, it's already begun.
Talk about having my hands full; I can only imagine how much longer I can do this until my back gives out.
On Friday none of the kids could go to school so I took them for a 2 hour drive to get their nap (and give Mommy one too; She stayed home) but they were so exhausted from being sick they just stayed asleep wherever you left them.
But amidst the suffering there were moments of sunshine, as the youngest diva shows off Big Sister's shades.
Here is a clip of Braelyn trying to make Maddy laugh.
Braelyn also loves having an audience she can entertain, especially now that the twins are sitting up and paying more attention to her. Here she's reading to them...
and trying to make them laugh again...
She also tries to get them involved, as shown here. She's singing a favorite pop song from the radio that goes, "When I say jump, you say how high? I ain't never seen anybody jump so high. Like a bird, like a plane. It's insane. Jump, jump, jump, jump!"
Yesterday Tangie again flew out to Pensacola and Uncle Mike flew back to his wife and home in California with a couple day layover for work in Washington D.C., so I was flying solo with the team. I had to work so luckily we found this very nice and kind babysitter through a contract company from Tangie's work. Sonia was like an Hispanic angel, as she dealt with the twins and their sickness for 9 hours straight for two days! I got her personal phone number and would recommend her to anyone in need of babysitting help. She was amazing! And luckily, with the twins out of school for almost an entire week, their little tummies are feeling better and are over this bug, as evidenced by today's pictures.
Knock on wood.
One week 'til Thanksgiving. Have a great weekend everyone!
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