Sick and Tired

OF BEING SICK AND TIRED!!!

I am sooooo ready for spring to come so we can open up the windows and air out his house. Fly away little germies, fly away!!

Oh, if only it were that easy. But it's not. Getting these germies to "fly away" usually entails me spending two days bleaching everything in sight, and then some. Not to mention washing every thing that can fit in the washer...again!

I swear by the time I finally finish cleaning from the last time someone was sick some one else starts coming down with something. Ugh!

So in case you couldn't tell from my rant above, we were all, yes all, sick with the flue. Gavin woke up Sunday morning with a temperature of 103 point something, (I forget the exact temp, because gosh darnit, I've taken so many temperatures in the last 8 days that the numbers kind of all run together. So parden the estimating.) so I give him some Ib Profin and water and get him settled in bed between Chris and I. We wake up an hour or so later and it's still at 102. This went on all day. His fever never went below 102 until it broke late Monday morning. He ran a low fever on Monday but it wasn't anything like Sunday's fever.

Then Dylan wakes up on Tuesday with a fever. I kinda expected that one ;) His did the same thing Gavin's did, except early Wednesday morning he woke up (thankfully he was sleeping in the bed with me) and said his tummy hurt. So we go to the bathroom and he proceeds to puke. I think it was because of his temperature being so high, because he only did it once.

While I'm taking care of Dylan, Chris wakes up and tell me to feel his forhead because he thinks he's runnning a fever. Sure enough, he was burning up too.

Needless to say he spent Wednesday and Thursday feeling like death had warmed over. Poor guy, really, I did feel aweful for him. He never gets sick, ever. I mean this is only the second time in 6 years I've seen him this sick. The only thing I have to complain about wiht him is that he would NOT stay in one place! Talk about spreading germs... yeah, I know we were all sick or going to get sick, but for heaven's sake man, don't make me have to clean everything in every room!

I started feeling blah on Thursday, but never got a fever, thank God! I had a horrid headache, and a cough that felt like I was coughing up a lung, but if that's all I had to deal with, I was going to take it.

And Saturday Chase started running a low fever. He's just got a stuffy nose and a little cough now. His fever has been gone since this morning. He is however not a very happy camper. In fact, as I'm writing this he's screaming at me... yes I am holding him, and typing with one hand, but he's not happy with my attempt at multi-tasking.

After all this, I am definitely sure about one thing... no matter how old I am, or how many kids I have of my own, I will still always need my mommy. If it weren't for her we would not have survived. She ran and got us soup when we realized we didn't have any in the house, she got some more tylenol and Ib Profin for the boys, picked up Gavin from school on Thursday and took Gavin and Dylan all day on Friday so Chris and I could rest.

And I can't forget to thank my Brother in law, Brian. He took Gavin to school on Thursday for me. I wasn't going to let him go, even though he felt just fine, because I wasn't sure I could drive to get him there! So Thanks Brian!!

So that's how our weeks was lst week. I sure hope everyone elses was much better :)

Got my Hair Did, and I'm ready for my close up (he, he, he)

I went this evening (Friday) to go get my hair done. I wasn't going to get a lot cut off, because Chris want's me to grow it back out, but I was just so tired of messing with it! Yeah, I let her cut it all off again, but it's really cute, I love it! I also got to get it colored. It's pretty stinking close to my natural color, just a hair (no pun intended) darker, and I got some blonde highlights put in. All in all I'm really happy with it. I think having my hair a bit darker makes my blue eyes stand out more.

Gavin and Dylan in the Spotlight

I've had a bunch of pictures and videos of Chase, so I thought you might want to see a little more of the other two boys.

Dylan just loves to sing, so here is a video of what I hear everyday, several times a day!

He's singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and then he goes into Row Row Row Your Boat.

Here's GavinSinging his ABC's and saying a little diddy he learned in Pre School

Photo Shoot

Chase and I had a photo shoot today! I moved my bed farther away so I could have more ground to work with. I set the "studio" up in our bedroom because it's the room the has the greatest amount of sunlight during the day. And because I don't have a bunch of fancy lights and stuff, I have to use what I have. I also put my photo editing software to use (I am in love with it!) and added a few little details, and even my name on the bottom of the picture. :)

This one is my favorite.

My second Favorite
And I love his smile in this one, but he looks a bit smooshed

I hope to get some of Gavin maybe Friday depending on where his attitude is. I haven't taken him to get his 4 year pictures yet (I know, it's horrible!), but I'm thinking maybe I can just take them and order a 8x10 and see how it turns out. If I like it than I'll just order the sizes I need for the other family members.
And Yes, I will be sending some of these pictures of Chase out as soon as I find a good photo printing code, and get them in the mail.

Chase Talking

On most nights Chris will come home from work and after dinner go relax downstairs, watch a little TV and keep the boys occupied for a bit and give me some time. Most of the time Chase will just sit in his lap and coo and goo at him.It's amazing how much he loves talking to his daddy, and so cute! I decided to capture it on video tonight for all our family who live out of town.

This is the first attempt to capture it on video, and ummm... well let's just say he had a little surprise for daddy :)

Sorry they're a bit dark. It was in our basement at night. But yo can still hear him blabbering away!

Love is in the air

Justin and Sarah had their little baby girl early Friday morning! And we're all in agreement that an arranged marriage is in the works for her and chase! :lol:

Her name is Margaret Ann, she weighed 7 lbs 12 oz

and was 20-1/2 inches long.

Now introducing the future couple!

Curious?

Want to know what a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich and some Oreo cookies look after they've been in the stomach of a 2 year old for a couple hours? No? Well, neither did I, but I didn't have a choice!

Wednesday afternoon Dylan woke up from his nap and proceeded to throw up everything (or so I thought) he had eaten earlier that day.

Poor guy ended up throwing up 4 or 5 times that evening. Thankfully he made it all through the night last night, and he has kept everything down that he's eaten today.

We (Dylan and I) did have a camp out in the living room last night, just in case. He slept good, me, not so much.

Hopefully no one else will get sick. I had it over the weekend last week, and it was awful.

I did go over everything with bleach so hopefully that will help in the assassination of this stinking bug.

On the bright side of things, Chase is now 3 months old! I was planning on setting the stuff up and getting some pictures of him, but those plans didn't quite work out. Hopefully within the next week or so I will be able to get some taken. He's grown so much, it's unbelievable! He's so smiley and will usually smile for just about anyone now. He loves to coo and goo at the boys, that is until they think they need to be right up in his grill, and then he gets pretty annoyed.

He's a pretty good baby, he's pretty spoiled though. He's not to keen on being left unattended. He thinks he needs someone to look at him all the time, or he gets cranky. It's really funny when I take a shower I usually lay him on the bathroom floor right outside the shower on a blanket. He's just fine until I close the curtain and then he starts to fuss. I'll open the curtain up and he'll quit, just like that, and smile. I close it back up and he'll start fussing again.

He did roll over the other day! From his tummy to his back, so I hope he'll keep on doing it, and it wasn't just a fluke thing.

Well, that's the news for now at the Unkel house.