Alive and Not Well

You know that part on Ice Age: The Meltdown where that guy (I forget what kind of animal he is) says, "my stomach hates me"? Yep - that is pretty much how everyone in my household has been feeling lately. We caught some kind of NASTY stomach flu from Becky's boys when they were here last weekend and man oh man, we have been miserable. All four of us (five with Becky) have been down and out and the worst was having Mark and I both get it at the same time. So grateful for family who helps though! Our poor kids were so confused as to why both mommy and daddy were in bed literally all day. The silver lining - it happened during Mark's days off work so he didn't have to call in sick. We're on the mend but still feeling too weak to do all the scrubbing with Clorox wipes that will need to be done before I feel like I can stand to even live in this house any more. I don't know why but for some reason when I get sick I'm always convinced that other moms manage to keep their houses spic and span and running just fine despite being sick and that I need to buck up and do a better job. Oh well, as soon as my stomach stops doing flips every time I exert myself I'll get to it!

So anyway, before our house became the subject of quarantine we had some fun playing in the snow and doing other stuff that I wanted to post pictures of before I forget about them.

Saydi had some serious static in her hair the other night! Too funny.

Saydi decided to fend for herself yesterday and climbed onto the chair to finish of her soup from lunch. Normally, I don't leave her food on the table for hours after she's done but nothing is normal around here when we're all sick. She was grateful since apparently she was still hungry. =)

When we had that awesome snow storm last week Mark immediately set to work making a snowman and bit off a little more then he could chew. It took him several minutes to get enough leverage on this sucker to get it on! Pretty funny from my perspective.

The final product. Except, he did add some arms later that I didn't get a picture of.I just love my kids all bundled up. When I can see nothing but their little faces I can better picture them the way they looked as babies. And yes, Weston is wearing doubled up socks on his hands. In my defense winter snuck up on me before I had time to make sure everyone had things to cover all their extremities!

So we're praying for health (and let's be honest, happiness) to return to our household soon and hopefully with that we'll have some more fun posts of GOOD things going on around here!