Frog Hands

Abby came to me today "Mom! I have frog hands!"

Me: "Frog hands?"

Abby: "They're sticky!"

The babies? Well they have their moments where they feel ok... but I see this a lot... they are not feeling well at all and today was rougher than I had seen them in awhile. Of course if they are feeling like I am right now...
Good grief it never ends.

We are moving towards sippy cups and so far it hasn't gone too bad. I did give them bottles tonight for bed because they were looking so awful. Kara just sat and sat and sat with me. 

(Kiley with her juice... apparently her sippy wasn't good enough)

Last night I was feeling very overwhelmed about things, and just in general. Abby had gotten her second pair of pajamas wet by playing in Feebee's water and I was so completely defeated that I just started crying and crying and crying. The only reason I'm mentioning this is is because Abby and her sweet soul was absolutely distraught that I was sobbing. She tried to get Tom to come help and I could hear her saying "Oh no, mommy's really crying. My mommy is so sad."

Then she came back upstairs pats me on the back and says "It's ok boy." 

It's really hard to cry when you are laughing. 

Of course even with the silly things she says I still was feeling rather down and though I wasn't crying Abby didnt leave me the rest of the night. She sat by me and watched Curious George with me until 10 o'clock at night. Just cuddling with me. 

I told her I loved her

She told me not to cry.

Doctor tomorrow? Perhaps

Well folks, we stayed put today. No leaving the house with three kiddos feeling under the weather (and myself not feeling 100% either)  We did run over to the neighbors to enjoy a coffee morning and I think that really helped us get through the day of being 'stuck home' 

We played upstairs and downstairs, Abby helped me make caramel rolls, we played Barbies, colored and she found a few other things to do here and there. There were certainly points today that I felt completely exhausted and stressed out. Especially after the babies cried for an hour straight and nothing I did seemed to help them. Finally I just put them both to bed...

No one really ate much today... they just weren't feeling very good. Kiley & Abby both had loose diapers and now have ouchy bottoms. Ugh. Yay for Balmex I guess!

I had to scold Kiley tonight and wow did she ever take it to heart. That girl can be soooo sensitive! 

Hopefully tonight goes better than last... though I've heard one of the babies has been up at least twice now so I won't count on it. 

Now off to fold the mountain of laundry.... 

My fluffy pink heart is broken...

An Abby story that I've been delinquent in sharing...

Tom and I invited a few good friends over to hang out at our house and play games. Once the babies were in bed we started playing this Harry Potter Lego game (which actually was a lot of fun) But since it was Legos Abby was very very interested in playing with us and had to sit on top of the table to watch. At one point during the game she looks at Tom and says "Abby want's to play Daddy."

Tom nicely explained that this game was too hard yet for Abby but that she could watch.

Abby wasn't exactly thrilled with this and then looks at him and says: "You broke my fluffy pink heart Daddy, Daddy you broke my fluffy heart."

It was so funny. So then I asked her what had happened to her heart.

"It died."

There was much talk about using tape to fix it, and how her heart was sparkely, and still very broken.... she went on and on and on and on about it. Very funny little girl we have here!

Kiley & Kara are STILL sick... debating whether to take them in to the doctor now. They have the 'crud', runny nose, cough, fever, ears... The fever was new yesterday for Kara but otherwise the rest of it they've had for going on 2 weeks... I've been trying to do the ear drops to take care of it but obviously it's not working.

(Kara before she wasn't feeling so good...still has runny nose here tho)

So we will see....

We did visit my grandparent's for a little while yesterday. That was a little intimidating for the babies. They weren't sure what to do with all the people there and mostly just clung to me. But for not feeling well I guess it was to be expected. We did get one of the chairs out of our basement at least! Yay!

(Kiley... also before she started feeling sick...)