Sick Sick Sick

Well hello, and what a week.  We started things off with Brooke and Monica feeling sick, but with Monday being a holiday they had a chance for recovery.  That extra day wasn't enough, HOWEVER, Winry, Grayson and I went to the park Monday afternoon and had a pretty good time.  We played on basically everything there, but eventually Grayson realized there was a little water trickling along and spent the rest of the time throwing in sticks and leaves and poking things along with the big stick he found.

We had family home evening that night, and I helped Grayson give the lesson.  He did a great job, and we acted out when the Book of Mormon manuscript was lost, and he was really excited to steal the manuscript and hide it.

I think I caught this on the monitor, and went in to check on Grayson, but I found him sleeping next to his bed one night.  He was still using his pillow, because it just wouldn't be comfortable otherwise, right?

Tuesday morning, Brooke was still feeling sick, and same with Monica, so I walked Winry to school.  I went on a run, and we had another cold snap come through.  It was well under freezing, and under 10 with windchill when we were walking to school.  Also, when we walked out the front door it was SNOWING!!  Not a big snow, but you gotta take it when you get it.

Here's Grayson heading into school on Wednesday!  Just looking cute.

This is, I think Wednesday, I dressed a little more appropriately for the walk to school, and when I was walking home I could tell my eyelashes were starting to freeze together, so I snapped a picture when I got home.

Grayson stepped in to help Monica out while she's trying to recover.  He made her breakfast while I was walking the girls to school!  What a buddy.

I was heading home one day from something, and saw that the waterfall was frozen again.  I remembered to get a picture from across the street this time.  It's... maybe not actually a better picture than the last one from the side.

With it being so cold, Grayson had to stay in for recess at preschool.  The kids all made elephant masks, and then had an elephant parade up and down the hall for all the other kids to watch.

Some night this week, I was playing with Jelly.  Honestly, I hide around corners and play with her all the time, but this time Monica caught a video of Jelly jumping at me!

On Saturday, Brooke and I ran some errands to pick things up, like antibiotics for ear infections (Winry and Grayson) and Monica's antibiotics because when she went in they said you're approaching 10 days and your symptoms are worsening.  Mind you, when I had pneumonia my response was to try to survive to 10 days...  Anyway, we also went to the dollar store, and walked by the greeting cards, and Brooke noticed there was a card that looked just like her!

Yes, that's Brooke for sure! LOL!!!!!  That's the face you want to see when you look in the mirror.

Grayson's ear started hurting Thursday night, and while he's started antibiotics and his ear hasn't been hurting as much, he's been having fevers still. He still has high energy but then will just crash, like this nap he "purposefully" took.

On Sunday afternoon we got a call from the pediatrician, and found out that while the rapid strep tests came back negative, the cultures all came back positive!  That's right, Grayson, Winry, Brooke AND Monica all have strep throat.  The good news for Winry and Grayson is that they had ear infections (if that's good news...) so they already got started on antibiotics.  I guess the good news for Brooke is that maybe she's moved past always getting ear infections when she's sick?  And Monica already started antibiotics before she found out she had strep, so Brooke is the last to truly get on the path to recovery.  But we're all heading in the right direction now. It's been a bit of a rollercoaster through the week of people feeling better, and then getting worse, and finally at the end of the week getting everyone medicine.  At this point I'm just waiting for my throat to start hurting.  If I somehow skate around this one, I'll chalk it up to me having strep throat for the first 3 years of my life.  Yes, you read that right, but that's another story for another time.  Have a good week.