Another awesome week.

In my last post I thought that Ava was just going to throw up that once and be just fine after.  I was wrong.  Really, really wrong.  Ava spent all last Friday throwing up.  I did my best to disinfect everything and keep her away from the other kids so the rest of the family didn't catch whatever she had.  On Saturday she was almost back to normal and running around and playing, so I figured she was okay to go to church on Sunday.  As we were walking to the car after church, Asher says "I feel like I'm going to throw up..." Awesome.  Luckily I had a puke bag in the car!  Whatever stomach bug Ava had had spread to the rest of us.  

Asher spent the rest of Sunday afternoon throwing up and running to the toilet.  By about 7:00pm I had started feeling symptoms, but Asher was feeling a little better by then.  I spent from 7-midnight also throwing up and in the bathroom.  I may have been throwing up so violently that I burst a couple blood vessels in my face.  My stomach hurt so bad and I was so dehydrated (but didn't want to drink water because I knew it would make me throw up) that I just laid on my bed wishing someone would hit me in the head hard enough to knock me out to put me out of my misery.  

Sometime around midnight Mia started throwing up.  I couldn't hardly move so from midnight-5am about every hour or so I would yell to David that Mia was throwing up in her room, he would run in there and try to clean up the mess, take Mia to the bathroom and try to clean her up, change her clothes and put her old clothes in a bag, and take her back to bed.  Ava and Asher usually got woken up whenever this happened.  Needless to say nobody got much sleep Sunday night and everyone stayed home from school on Monday.  Ava and Mia both got fevers on Monday so I kept them home Tuesday as well.  

David got a little sick on Tuesday and Wednesday, but not too bad.  We were all pretty much over the illness, but all of us still had sensitive stomachs.  I haven't really made a full meal all week because all any of us can handle are some snacks and maybe a light dinner.  

Then yesterday Asher came home from school looking pale and with a slight fever saying he didn't feel well.  He had a horrible sore throat and headache and just laid on the couch all evening.  He even asked me if he could go to bed early.  Today he felt a little better, but I took him to the doctor just in case.  He doesn't have strep throat, just a nasty viral infection that gives him all the symptoms of strep but we can't fix it, just manage symptoms.  

So that's how things went this last week.  I had a whole bunch of yard work I was going to do before it got too cold, but that got put on hold.  I usually work out 4-5 times a week but haven't been able to do that at all.  My body is still recovering and even doing housework makes me tired.  On a brighter note, in the past 2 weeks Asher slept through the night 3 times!  Once was last night and I think it was because he was sick and his body was just trying to recover...but I'll take it!  Here's to hoping that next week goes better!

This is what Ava did after I brought her home from school last Friday.  Asher drew her a picture of a cat and Mia put it behind her so she could enjoy it. 😃

Ava was feeling much better on Saturday.  I have about 20 pictures on my phone like this to prove it.

Mia wanted to be Elsa again for Halloween.  Ava wanted to be a spider, but I couldn't find a spider costume so I convinced her to be a butterfly.  I got the costume in the mail and Mia got very jealous!  She wanted to take turns wearing the costume and made me go outside so I could take pictures of her.  Good thing Joni has an extra butterfly costume she's letting Mia borrow!

Cute little bug.