fortress of sick: new member.

well, there's two of them now.  3:30, friday morning, emily got sick.  i was really hoping it'd pass by her because she is a terrible patient.  she whines and whines and cries and refuses to take medicine.  it's very annoying.  aiden is so use to taking medicine, both good tasting and bad, due to his borderline asthma.  i never have any problems getting him to swallow it.  emily, however, fights you every step of the way.  she hasn't thrown up as much as aiden, since he was so congested before he even got it.  she still threw up and all, but the diarrhea hit very early on, instead of 20 hours later, like aiden.   she's been running a fever, too.  since emily is older, she is more self sufficient, which is good and bad.  good because she had cleaned up her mess before i even knew that she'd made it or where it was at.  bad, because of the same reason!  she had all of her sheets in her basket, pillow case off, clothes off, hand towel on the floor to clean the spot she'd made a mess at.  i didn't know there was a mess til the next day.  my poor carpets really need to be cleaned now!  justin had a follow-up appt. to check on his blood pressure(which was excellent!), so dr. hop (hoppock, but the kids call him dr. hop) checked her out, too, confirming she had the same thing as aiden.   justin said there were all kinds of families there with their kids...only they were all dressed for the day, while emily was still in her pajamas.  haha.


so now that the 2nd one is sick, the first one is feeling better.  still is gross, but the meds hold it all off and he plays and acts wild like he did before.   he was very sad when we moved him back to his room last night(he'd been on the couch) and emily was sad that she couldn't sleep on the couch like him.   her bedroom is right next to the bathroom, though, so i'm keeping her there.   she's been in a pull-up, too, which she does not like, but hey....i'm not cleaning up that mess!  haha.   i thought for a while that i was starting to get it, as well, but thankfully i haven't!  justin has been sucking down airborne so that he doesn't get sick before going out of town for his drill and navy course.  apparently it doesn't matter if you're throwing up or having the runs to the military. :)


here's to hoping these kids are well before jus leaves!