sick of sick & the most beautiful girl in the world+

these photos are totally unrelated to my post. but i just wanted you all to see m'girl. just before church this morning. cause she just looked so darn pretty.
she's got this new thing she's doing...constantly chewing on her fingers or clothes or hair...no idea what prompted it...maybe gus chewing on things? anyway - we're working on it. showing me her tap moves...

more tap...

i can't even begin to tell you how ready i am for this household to be well again. it's not like we've got major health concerns and for that i am very grateful. but since september 23rd it has been one thing after another...starting with g's diarrhea, moving on to the rest of us, then to a cold for clay & me, a sinus infection for me, then a stomach bug for me, then to a cough for the lu, to vomit to sinus infection for her, then last saturday g woke up with the cough and now the last couple of days he's had a low grade fever & isn't happy unless he's being held by mom or distracted watching baby einstein or his crazy sister. and he's waking at night & not napping well.

really it's been mostly manageable (except for the 8 hour barfing binge i had). really i'm just selfish...because i sooooo want to go to the gym. but the coughing fits & green snot crusted all over the faces of my precious babes aren't welcome there. i mean, i still find them adorable...but i suspect it's in the way only a mother can...

oh, and the kids & i leave this week for iowa. flying solo with the two of them. Lord please help me. clay has a long stint away so instead of missing him here we're going to go spend some time with the rosonke/halvorson clan. it's g's first time up there and our first time to meet cousin austyn, just in time for her first birthday. hopefully we won't get the sweet birthday girl sick.

luckily on friday i had enough foresight to think maybe i should make a pedi appointment for monday in case g isn't better....just to get them both checked out before we get on a plane & skip town. i called friday & scored two 8:15a sick checks for both kids with our doc. i figured i could always cancel them but if i waited till monday to call i'd never get in (the line is usually busy the first 30 minutes after they open on monday). sure enough, g woke up with a fever on saturday. but i have the appointments...so at least something is going my way!!