Sick

Without fail every year at Christmas someone from our family gets sick at Grandma and Grandpa's house.  Sometimes it is multiple people.  This year was no different from any other year.  Multiple people were sick and Reese and Benson were the lucky ones to get sick this year.  But the bad thing... mom and dad weren't around.

Ben and I went up to Twin Falls on the 26th to move our things in to our new apartment.  We took Jan, Kyle, and Brad with us and left all of the kids in the care of Crystal and Malia.  Those two were amazing because taking care of our little Benson is no easy task and they succeeded!

But anyways, about halfway through the day they noticed that Reese and Benson were running fevers.  They were the best little nurse and took good care of our kids while we were gone.  Of course they had to wrestle and pin Benson to the ground to get him to take any medicine but hey, I would have done the exact same thing if I were there.

We came home that night to two sick kiddos.  We put them to bed and the next morning they both had high fevers again.  This continued for the next few days.  On Sunday, the 28th, Reese woke up throwing up.  We were suppose to be heading down to Spanish Fork that night to surprise my dad for his birthday but it didn't look like we were going anywhere.  

Poor girl threw up for the next few hours until about noon.  The great thing about Reese being a little bit older, she can actually make it to the toilet now!!!  It is wonderful to have a child old enough to understand the concept of throwing up into the toilet!  I never thought something so silly could make me so happy, but it was nice not to have to clean up throw up out of the carpet every 30 minutes.

By noon Reese was telling me she felt all better and she wanted to eat lunch.  I learned a long time ago that when kids are sick you don't give them much to eat but Reese was ravenous and wanted to eat everything in sight.  I kept trying to tell her that maybe she shouldn't eat so much but there was no stopping her. 

Thankfully she kept everything down and we headed down to Spanish Fork that night.  My kids were still sick for the next few days.  Whatever they had it was not a fun bug.  But it just wouldn't be Christmas if someone wasn't sick!