Haley throws up more and the rest of us chug grape juice

THURSDAY was another uneventful day at home.  I opted to skip women's Bible study because Haley was still considered contagious.  We played outside for a little bit and watched one episode of Dora.  Emily went for a morning nap then woke up and Haley went down for her afternoon nap.  Later I went in and put Emily down for her second nap but she was a little loud and woke Haley up.  That cut Haley's nap down to only an hour and a half but I figured that was okay because then she would go to bed early.

Emily slept about two hours and then she was up.  About the same time that she woke up David got home.  This was fortunate because I was trying to get dinner on the table and keep the girls separated at the same time.  Haley loves to give Emily hugs after her naps so it was proving to be a hard job.  About that time Jon Creech came so I could fix a bad haircut he had gotten earlier that day.  I was at a good stopping place for dinner so I paused and fixed his hair and then went back to making dinner all while David watched the girls.  Haley did not each much at dinner, only a couple bites of pasta and some applesauce.

After dinner I took Haley with me to go pick up Ella for Bible study.  Then we came home and waited for Amanda and Chloe to get there.  David watched the girls and put them to bed while Amanda and I started our new study of the book of Ruth with Chloe and Ella.  The girls had a bit of a hard time going down, I think it didn't help that Haley knew people were here.  I thought she would be so tired that it wouldn't matter but apparently it did.  When Bible study was over I took the girls home and then came back and read a little bit with David.

We were just turning out our light to go to bed at around 11:35 when Haley started crying.  We figured she must have lost her paci and hadn't found it yet so we gave her a couple seconds but she was only getting louder.  I went to help her and she had thrown up all over her bed.  I grabbed her and took her to the bathroom (her bucket was in the den) and got the last bit of it in the toilet but had gotten some on the carpet and walls (I later saw in the morning) on the way.  I asked David if he would rather clean up or take a shower with Haley and he chose the first.  I was glad.  For whatever reason getting wet at midnight is just the last thing I would want to do, even if the alternative is cleaning up throw-up.

David stripped down and took a shower with Haley while I rinsed off her linens and started a load of wash.  Then I worked on the carpet.  It was all a pretty nasty affair and it will be a very long time before I eat chicken with a basil cream sauce again.  Through it all, Emily was such a little blessing.  I put her comforter over her head to keep it semi-dark while I turned on the light to clean the carpet and she hardly stirred.  I could have kissed her, but then again, I don't want to spread germs if either of us have them.

After Haley got out of the shower I put her in some fresh pajamas and held her on the couch with the throw-up bucket.  The throw-up bucket, by the way, is a green plastic bowl that Aunt Rin gave us when she graduated.  We are putting it to good use Aunt Rin!  While I sat with Haley, David got dressed and went to Wal-mart to buy some Welch's purple grape juice.  He had been playing with Haley that afternoon and was putting toys in his mouth to make the girls laugh.  I warned him not to but it was too late, he said Haley had just been sucking on the play medicine dropper that was currently in his mouth.  Oh the irony.  Anyways, David was terrified of getting sick and felt like a midnight run to get grape juice was in order.  Haley threw up once while he was gone but we caught it all in the bucket.  She is pretty good at letting me know when it's coming.  She holds her hand over her mouth, like she's about to throw-up...because she is.

David came back with two family size jugs and we each downed a glass.  Then David got out our book again and started reading while we waited to see if Haley would throw-up again.  Thirty minutes later David was still reading and Haley was passed out beside me.  We put her back in her bed, said a prayer, and went to sleep.  It's good we prayed because Haley made it through the rest of the night without throwing up.

Both girls woke up at around 8:30 this morning so it wasn't too short of a night.  I was super bummed because my MOPS group went strawberry picking this morning and I didn't feel like we could go.  Seriously, having sick kids has felt like prison!  We had a slow morning of playing outside.  I wanted to make sure that both girls slept at the same time so we ate lunch and then I put Emily down first at 11:30; Haley followed a little after twelve.

Emily slept two and a half hours and Haley slept about two, meaning they both woke up around 2.  I told David that I had to get out of the house or I was going to go crazy.  Haley seemed to be feeling fine so we decided to run some errands together.  First we went to the consignment shop to cosign some summer clothing.  Then we went to an estate sale in a super cool neighborhood.  The houses and yards in that area are so pretty, David and I decided they must have a pretty strict homeowners association.  We didn't find anything at the estate sale but it was fun to look at the house.  Then we went to Albertson's, a grocery store that we don't usually go to but had seen in an ad that they had some great deals on meat.  They had 3lbs of beef for sale for $5 and chicken for $1.68 a pound.  That is a pretty good deal for us.  Anyhow, the best part of Albertson's was their car shopping carts.  Haley about wet her pants when she saw them.  Actually, quite literally, I had to take her to the potty about five minutes after she got in it.  We got some pictures of course:

Driving the cart

Haley saying 'cheese'

Keep your eyes on the road Emily!

After Albertson's we went to Kroger because they were having a big sale on Tombstone pizzas ($2.50 a piece in case you were wondering).  Then we went home.  We weren't gone that long but it was so nice to get out.  I started on dinner while David fed the girls and then played with them.  Then I played with the girls while he did the dishes.  Then I read some books to them and put them to bed.  They were in their beds, asleep, by 7:30.  Emily probably took seconds to fall asleep and Haley maybe took a minute.  Haley acted pretty normal for most of the day so we gave her grape juice too.  We are almost done with the first jug.

Haleyism:
Yesterday Haley spent a lot of time pretending to throw up in the green bowl, she thought it was hilarious.  Today she didn't pretend, I guess it wasn't funny anymore.

Emilyism:
Emily's motto is "you can eat anything if you put your mind to it."  Also, I have been putting grape juice in her food.  I also gave her some in a bottle.  She's drank a total of at least 2 ounces.  We'll see if it helps.

Yeah, I didn't know I was taking a video...

David took this picture of the girls playing together