Fighting the sickness

It's been a long weekend of sickness. Everyone's come down with this yucky sickness. We are starting to come around but it sure hasn't been the eventful holiday weekend I hoped for. We did venture to see family and I snapped this photo of the boys riding their toys together :)

Hopefully we all get well enough for school and work for Tuesday.

Acrobatics on the swing set

Everyone is battling this illness except maybe Diego. Somehow though even when the kids are sick they find pockets of energy. It amazes me as I could sleep all day when I feel this yucky.

Well this is what they came up with all on their own today. Callie has been able to hang from the rings for awhile as she is tall enough but this is the first time D has been able to get his hands on them. And he sure is strong. He can hold on even longer than Callie. They took turns and did this for at least 20 min!

Boo has one eye!

Boo already was missing half of one eye, but today Diego ripped the remaining string of his eye. We did a little surgery and cut off the remaining ripped string. So now Diego has a Boo wth just one eye. This bear is getting more and more scraggly. He still loves him! Even the replacement Boo looks nicer but he isn't interested in Boo #2, so we keep going with One Eyed Boo!

Challenging day at the zoo

I'm generally very positive and I try hard not to write about my headaches, complaints and bad days but let's just be real. Some days being a mom is just hard! I tried to make my unusual day off a fun day for the kids despite my feeling a little under the weather with sniffles and a sore throat. We went to the zoo. There was just so much whiney, talking back, temper tantrum throwing, crying and bs for me today. I will say it was not enjoyable for the most part. The photos will show you smiles and fun but don't let these two fool you. They sure can be difficult. Here's to hoping a good nights rest makes for a better day for everyone tomorrow.

Why can't my kids just lay down and snuggle and sleep like this baby gorilla? Isn't he just darling?

Peek a boo to the lion

Are you tired of butterflies yet?

We aren't! Here's another that eclosed (that's the fancy word for emerges from a chyrsalis) today. He wasn't quite ready to fly away this afternoon so we will keep him until tomorrow. Callie is planning to brig him to school to release with the kids as she brought caterpillars for show and tell about a month ago. You might also notice Callie has some new sparkly shoes. She saw someone wearing some similar at the store last week and loved them so we found some on Amazon for her.

Chocolate monster

There aren't a lot of exciting photos today because I spent half of my day catching up on sleep. Being up at night with sick kids is exhausting. I don't know how I survived all those months when they were infants and I never slept more than a few hours at a time! Diego is finally feeling better without a fever so hopefully we can get back to normal. We had ice cream after dinner and Diego insisted he wanted Rocky Road. He eats it by shoving his whole face into the cone which is pretty messy. I call him the chocolate monster!

Illness and injury

Today was a day of recovery. Diego spent the last 24 hrs with a fever and was throwing up last night. As anyone with a toddler knows puking means all over everything and everyone, lots of laundry... Today he doing better and started eating again but we cancelled all our fun end of summer vaca plans for swimming and play dates for the next two days.

We also spent part of our day helping the butterfly with th injured wing thanks for manny. I reached out to a butterfly expert who actually responded and suggested we try cutting off part of the broken wing and making sure the opposite side matched it. I was nervous as if it still couldn't fly it would become our pet. I wasn't thrilled with this idea as it meant feeding it daily until it died. Well a little trimming and we got it flying! I was so glad to see it fly away. We also had another butterfly hatch that we released today with the injured one. And we had 5 caterpillars all form into chrysalis today! We saw two happen and I even got one full complete transformation on video. It's pretty  incredible, nature is amazing!

Callie was a trooper in keeping Diego relatively happy and entertained during his illness. She got the Mickey Mouse ears out and they watched videos together. Cute aren't they?

Let's hope tomorrow everyone is well and we sleep all night, I could use the rest.