A Couple of Sick Kids

Time for the weekly update!

Claire and Allie are two sad, sick kids. It started about a week ago when Allie started getting a nasty cough that is just painful to listen to. She must have decided that she wasn't getting enough sympathy from Kayley and I, so she added a new trick: making herself throw up by coughing after eating! Now, Allie has always been a champion puker (I once told Kayley that Allie "is like a bulimic at a buffet". I'm so impressed with myself over that one that I still chuckle whenever I think about it.) but lately she seems less like a baby girl and more like the fountains at the Bellagio. This morning she woke up for her usual feeding which Kayley very graciously takes care of without waking me up. (I've got the best wife!) Twenty minutes later my wonderful wife (Remember, I have the best one!) came back and woke me up to ask if I would take Allie so she could have a shower. I rolled over and, sure enough, Allie had drenched Kayley's entire left side, front and back.

Claire, seeing all the attention Allie has been getting, chose today to get in the game herself. This morning she told us a few times that she wasn't feeling well, so we decided that since Kayley had a talk to give today (Follow the prophets was the topic. She felt like she didn't do that well, but a couple of people told her they thought it was the best one of the day.) I would stay home and take care of both the girls. Well, we mostly had a good day until Claire went down for her nap. An hour into it I heard her scream her head off. When I got back to her room I saw her kneeling in her bed doing her best to empty her stomache of the scrambled eggs she had eaten for breakfast. Yum.

Things don't show any signs of getting better, so Kayley is going to take tomorrow off work to take the girls to the doctor.

Anyway, the above photos are:
the cutest picture of Allie to date
a sick Claire-bear asleep on the couch
and the whole fam the day Allie was blessed.