I love the little removable sword on this monkey and this peculiar combination of clothes cracks me up, pirate gear with a shirt and tie! You can make one of your own.

Ok, I need to put a different picture up. I’m sick of looking at sugar snap peas and tomatoes. And I’m sick, Isabelle is sick, and Nathan is sick. We have colds. I guess we didn’t make it through the Children’s Discovery Museum unscathed. Either that or we got it from the homeschool group Valentine party we went to. But I think it might be the museum. I didn’t notice any sick kids at the party.

So, that’s why you’ve been stuck looking at that picture for days. I haven’t been up to editing any new pictures. I’d pop onto the computer a little here and there to draw quick little things for my “I heart” section and to check my email but mostly I’ve been missing.

I’ve been taking care of sick babies. Isabelle is like her usual self except with a runny nose that needs to be wiped quite constantly if it’s not sucked. Do you know what I’m talking about those nose sucker things? We have a Japanese one with a straw thing and it’s the grossest thing ever but it works.

And Nathan hasn’t been sleeping properly at night. He tosses and turns and wakes up at some crazy hour in the morning whining and crying which wakes Isabelle up. He’s been doing this for the past 2 or 3 days. And on top of that he has a diaper rash, his first. So, I’ve been taking care of them, nursing my head (a headache everyday now for 3 days. Hmmm wonder if it’s due to the lack of sleep) and knitting Nathan’s blanket when I can grab a spare moment.

Ok why the hell am I still awake?! I should be sleeping! I haven’t stayed up this late in a month or something. Off to bed I go.

We don’t generally celebrate Valentine’s here. I’m sure I’ve mentioned that before. So, it was quite a nice surprise when Alan and Isabelle went down to the grocery store, on Saturday night, and came home with roses for me. I was sitting nursing Nathan, with my back to the door, and Isabelle walked over with the flowers behind her back. “Surprise mama!”

Isabelle just felt like buying them for me. They weren’t specifically for Valentine’s. She said they were for my birthday, though my birthday isn’t until October.

Aren’t they pretty?

Then on Sunday morning, Isabelle posed all kissey face for me so I could make Alan a kiss flip book.

But was that the end? Nope. In the evening, I took a nap with Nathan. When I woke up Alan had a box of chocolate waiting for me. Wow, I can see how some people can get into Valentine’s day.

Animation. Love. Chalk animation? Love even more. Even Isabelle wanted to watch this Autumn story over and over again. Via faroula

I’m so behind. It’s been one of those weeks. A week ago I wrote that we’ve been sick, it’s just colds. But we’ve been dealing with that plus more this past week.

At the beginning of the week, Isabelle was coughing at night. Not extreme coughing. Just regular little coughs. And only at night. But she’d cough and then throw up. We don’t have that kind of sick, the throw up kind. But just the coughing made her throw up because…I don’t know why.

Well, that happened a couple of nights. So, it got to the point where I’d wake at every single cough, frantic that she was going to throw up. It was like a snowball effect. On the first night I was low on sleep, then the next night I was low on sleep again but it was worse because it was the second day. Then it got progressively worse with each day. Finally Alan raised her bed to an angle and we rubbed some vapo rub on her. The vapo rub seemed to do the trick. On the nights when I forgot she would still cough. But as soon as I put the rub on her, no coughing.

I don’t know why we didn’t do it the first couple of nights. Maybe that was because it was just a little bit of coughing. Nothing major. But that nothing major sure wreaked havoc with my sleeping.

But that wasn’t all. It was a very stressful and busy week indeed. See:

Alan noticed a little bump, well the technical term is an abscess. It was on Isabelle’s gum right above her front teeth where she had a cavity last year. It was an infection. On Monday, they took an x-ray and most of the root was gone. So we made an appointment for Wednesday to have it pulled.

Isabelle did so well. She just cried a little. And when it was gone she was so excited. The dentist put her little tooth in a treasure chest and she kept looking into the mirror looking at the missing tooth.

It’s funny, my sister told me her son was growing his adult teeth in behind his baby teeth. So, I said oh yeah, and I emailed her a picture of Isabelle missing a tooth. My sister called me “a tard” saying that wasn’t real. Maybe she thinks I photoshopped it. So, I was going to reply with this post…um 3 days ago but yeah…one of those weeks.

I was going to show her this video. Video, I can’t photoshop that.

Boobah video on Flickr

So, was that the only thing this week? No!

Nathan has this redness on his face. Well, it’s actually been there for a while. Just a little redness that would sort of come and fade a little. You can see it in his rolling pictures. The doctor noticed it at his last well check visit last month but it never really went away. Just this little rashy area on his face and no where else. Well Tuesday night he was rubbing at it like crazy in his sleep. Rubbing it raw. It’s the worst we’d seen it. So, that meant a trip to the doctor’s. We left with two different prescriptions for creams for his face. It’s much improved today.

Is that the end? Nope. Oh gawd, when will this post end?! I’m tired just writing it. Is anyone still reading? Ok. Real short and fast. Isabelle saw a pediatric ophthalmologist at the beginning of this month. Isabelle needed new lenses with a new prescription for her glasses. Alan’s work screwed up our insurance. F-ers. We dealt with that this week too, new glasses. So lots of doctor visits this week. High stress. Sick. Me coughing like crazy now. The end.