Sick

It's a busy thing this life stuff. I keep thinking if we can just get past (blank) we can breath. Turns out I can't. Two weeks ago we got the call from the ped that Ben set off their "high risk" bells so could we bring him in for the h1n1 vac in the morning? Sure. So we did and that was that until Saturday, when he got the flu. It has been raging around his school for weeks and I was in fact surprised that he hadn't already gotten it BUT I was a bit put off with his getting it just two days after a shot that he was pretty pissed about. It hit him hard and fast. Dry cough, fever, runny nose, vomiting (aspiration?), headache, exhaustion. He was pretty pitiful but only for a few days. Considering what I feared we might be in for, better then I could have hoped. He was back to school on Wednesday. Then Thursday Kiera looked a little off, and sneezed about 50 times. She was a trooper and made it through the Fashion Show (where we all looked loverly in our V2V and Elephant Ears fashions) but woke on Friday with the crud. Then it got Dave. Then it got me. Sunday we made a family trip to the after hours doc because I was sick as a dog and if I'm going, Ben is going to get his chest listened to and we tossed in Kiera for good measure. Verdict, we have the flu. You know THE FLU. The only one that you can have right now. Ben has not craftily turned his into pneumonia (yet), Dave is getting over it, Kiera is still coughing so hard that she wants a sicky bowl with her in bed "in case I trow up" and I am having a heck of a time with it. I can tough through most but this is kicking my bum. I still have a fever for goodness sake. And if I could pay someone to loosen the hold on my neck and my chest I would. This is no monkey business, I have been down for six days. I got Ben off the bus today and was forced onto the couch to cough for an hour. I'm up now because when I am flat (aka "sleeping") I'm coughing. Who has 14 days for this crap? So no, after (blank) we can't breath, because I can't breath. Arggggg! hackhackhackhack

Recap

Remember when I had a little rant about too much on my plate blah, blah, blah and something had to give blah, blah, blah.

Can you guess what gave? This. Facebook. Google groups. My cyber outlets gave. I miss them. I miss you. I miss my contact with the world that gets it. I miss your babies. I miss your stories. I'm back (for today) for a start on a recap because the last 3 months are worth recapping. Soo... May- Kiera's recital, Ben's science project and playing together.

Ben rocked through all of the dirt scooping, seed planting, watering, picture taking, writing and gluing that was his science project. By himself! It took a bit of direction but he did it and when he was done he shouted "I did it! Thank you so much mom for helping me do it!" Nice. Dad got his own great moment during the presentation at school. Crowds of older, super cute girls tucked in around Ben "oooing" and "ahhing" over his project. Dave took about 10 pictures of that with a proud little smirk on his face. We all see success in our own way ; )

Kiera's recital-lets just say, I'm really glad that I filmed the dress rehearsal. They did the dance 3 times total. Two were during dress and once, of course for the recital. They became VERY comfortable after the initial stage spook and started pulling all sorts of creativity out of their tightly wound buns. BUT, no one cried, peed or ran off the stage so it was all good. Kiera was amazing and cute as can be (of course) and because I didn't note it, she is the second from the left in the vid. You know, the one with WHITE fluff on her head :)

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And then this. To the untrained eye it may look like no big deal, but what I see is my two beautiful children choosing to play together. Without prompting. And it required cooperation. Amazing!

And...

And then my mom had her hip replacement surgery. All is well on day one. NO pain, epidurals are cool. We'll see how she feels after the epidural comes out tomorrow. It's one day closer to less pain.

And now...

And now Kiera has strep. Wow.