Saturday Cell Phone Pictures

Friday night was absolutely awful. Poor Ella and Aidan were both up all night coughing constantly and got maybe (at best) two hours of sleep all night lonng.

Simply put, it was brutal.

Luckily, Mike was home so we were able to rotate beds and kids throughout the never-ending night. Bless their little hearts they were so darn tired. And then 6 AM hit and they were both up and ready to start their day just like the chaos had never even occurred!

I had a photo shoot Saturday morning (which technically falls into the "good" category, but for chronological reasons, falls into place here), and as soon as I got home we packed up Ella and Aidan and headed to the pediatrician's office.

Aidan was diagnosed with just a cold (thankfully managing to escape catching Ella's bronchitis). Lungs, ears, etc all good.

Ella, on the other hand, still (despite the antibiotics) has a touch of bronchitis, and now added double ear infections to her roster of illness.  A quick switch to a new antibiotic prescription and we were sent on our way.

After picking up Ella's prescription we all headed home to meet up with Grandmommy and Grandaddy who were scheduled to babysit so that we could head out to enjoy Mike's birthday present - an afternoon at Cirque Du Soliel!

Both Ella and Aidan passed out as soon as we got home, and since the pediatrician told us that they were no longer actually contagious, we decided to keep with the plan and head out to the show.

Needless to say, Totem was incredible, as are all of Cirque Du Soliel's performances. Little Baby Girl Parker got to attend her first performance - and she definitely woke up when the loud music began!

We kept in touch with Grandaddy via texting just to keep tabs and see if we needed to bolt and head home, but all went well and they had a nice dinner and went right to bed.

We headed out after the show for dinner ourselves at the Melting Pot , and were home by 8 PM.

It was so nice to have some time together, just Mike and I, to have an actual date "afternoon". It was much needed and we are so grateful and appreciative to Grandaddy and Grandmommy for taking care of our little ones for us  - we love you tons!!