Sunday, August 27, 2006

A Little Bit About Lilli...

Lilli loves her Daddy's bean bag chair






Our little daredevil has recently discovered the joys of "rocking chair surfing"








And Lilli loves her kitty, Wilbur






She is going to be an engineer when she grows up










But for now she's just a little girl. She likes wearing the pink flip flops she got at the beach on vacation, and talking on her Daddy's cell phone.

Friday, August 18, 2006

Too much of a bad thing

It's been a really difficult week. We had to take Lilli to the emergency room Monday night/Tuesday morning because she couldn't stop vomiting - like she was vomiting every five minutes. Lilli and I ended up staying there all night/morning. Dave came home to relieve the sitter we'd called to come stay with Tipton. Dave stayed home from work Tuesday morning so that I could get a couple of hours sleep while Lilli napped, and he took Tipton to his swim lesson. Wednesday seemed to be going fine. Lilli was almost back to normal (she had progressed onto the diarreah stage of the stomach virus.) But Wednesday evening I started feeling queasy. Later that evening Tipton threw up. Then he did it again a few mintues later. This seemed all too familiar, so we called our neighbor to come stay with Lilli while Dave drove me and Tipton to the urgent care. I "got sick" on the way there. Later that night Dave, being the wonderful father and husband that he is, drove all the way to the other side of Raleigh to go to the only drug store that was opened 24 hours so that he could get the prescriptions filled for me and Tipton. On the way home he started feeling sick. Thursday was just one big slugfest. I don't think our tv has ever been on for that long of a stretch of time. Pretty much we came downstairs and just started playing dvds for the kids. Not that Tipton saw many of them. He spent most of the day passed out on the floor. Dave and I took sort of a tag-team approach to caring for Lilli. It wasn't a good day to be in our house.(Did I mention that even the cat threw up Wednesday evening?)

Today was better. Tipton had more energy. Lilli had fewer nasty diapers. Dave was able to eat. And I haven't vomited all day. Looking forward to tomorrow.

Monday, August 14, 2006

This is only a test...



So I just started this blog and I don't really know what I'm doing. But I want to start a blog so that we can keep in touch with friends and family when we move to Sweden in a couple of months. These are my crazy kids, Tipton and Lilli. No one will want to see pictures of me. They'll just want to see the kids.