"Awww I love you mommy"

Sick babies... I know... it's awful. Kiley and Kara as of 10:30 tonight are running temps around 100-101 degrees. There noses are running and they have a little cough. The temp isn't too bad, but the poor things are miserable. They are making soft squeaky noises to each other. At least for the moment they aren't coughing or trying to breathe. I have a feeling that if they are like this in the morning I'm taking them in to get checked out. There have been too many cases of RSV around my neighborhood for me to feel ok with just leaving it alone. In fact 3 of the neighborhood little ones are sick in the hospital with it! I just hope they sleep some tonight so that I'm not completely miserable too.

I should have known something was up, they were just crying and crying and crying and crying. I have to interrupt this paragraph because Kara fell asleep in my arms and just now woke up to smile at me, coo and all of this with her eyes mostly shut. If she weren't so miserable it would be amazingly adorable. Ok she fell back asleep.... We eventually drove down to my moms after Abby got up from her nap because I couldn't take care of them all. K&K each wanted to be held because they were miserable but Abby wanted to play... Abby looked up at me from her snack and said "Mom? Babies cry..."

I decided we had had enough. Thankfully things went better at my moms with more hands to hold babies and we even got a nice beef stew meal. I brought our dog Feebee to play down there... and forgot in all of the commotion of getting the kids into the car. I dropped off my sister for pep band so that my mom wouldn't need to go. Oh wow was Abs mad when she left!!!

My sister had been playing tea party and kitchen with Abby and wow did she just love that! We even brought a few kitchen things to play with home so that she could do that. Tom played food with her for awhile and gave her a bath tonight. It was sweet of him to do that so that I could tend to babies that would not stop crying. Lately Abby has been taking 3 hour long naps... perhaps she is growing too? All I can say is that it has given me a little more time to recover and recuperate. Abs and I made frozen cookies today, she liked putting them onto the pan until she decided the cookies looked better to eat than to play with.

Granted if I had made the dough I might have let her eat a snatch or too... but there have been recent salmonilla outbreaks from frozen cookie dough. Do I really need more sick kids? Hmmm no. We got the cookies made but didn't even get to eat any before we went to my parent's house. I guess that leaves more cookies for tomorrow!

But the really exciting thing today???

Abby told me she loved me for the first time!!! I mean actual words! I was hugging her this morning as we were walking to the nursery to change her diaper and I said "Awwww I love you Abby." And she hugged me back and said "Awww I love you mommy..." I was sooooo excited! Hearing her tell me that she loved me was one of the coolest things ever. It is a moment I will always cherish and hold on to... especially as those teen years loom maliciously in the distant future....

I feel like there was something else I had wanted to add... but that is all I can think of for now!
Goodnight :o) Hoping I get some sleep....