Friday, December 19, 2008

Attack of the Stomach Bug!


Wednesday morning was our last art class. The kids made little tracings of their hands and colored them in to make a pretty little ornament. Just like most of the classes, Aidan was not really interested and had more fun running around the room. Ella, on the other hand, has managed to learn a few colors from class – yellow and green!

I signed them up for gymnastics starting in January – it is a six month program and I am really excited! Just hoping that I can manage to corral them…and hope that they have a better attention span for gymnastics than they did for art!


Mike came home from work early with nasty stomach bug that has been going around town. We thought maybe, just maybe we may be able to spare the kids, but after we put them to bed, Ella threw up at about 7:30. Poor little thing just kept saying “Uh-oh, Mommy. Uh-oh!” It was a mess – all over her and her crib…..but we got everything cleaned up and she drank some water and played for a while, then went to bed and slept all night long.

Aidan greeted us Thursday morning by vomiting all over himself and his crib. Poor little thing was so scared – it was even coming out of his nose! He was also struck with bad diarrhea and spiked a low grade fever - he was a very sad little boy all morning. All he wanted was his Daddy – so Mike stayed home from work to help take care of everyone (not to mention still take care of himself!).

Ella, on the other hand, woke up like nothing ever happened, and is totally fine – no more vomiting, and never even had any diarrhea.

We kept their diet very bland - no milk, just basically the BRAT diet (bananas, rice (we didn’t feed them rice), applesauce and toast.

By yesterday afternoon (basically after naps) Aidan seemed to be feeling much better. He was his usual happy self, but still hampered by lots of diarrhea.
Today everyone seems to be on the mend. Mike is off all weekend, so hopefully we will be able to do some fun family activities!

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