About Last Night

What can I say?  We survived.  That was our first time with three sick kids at once.  Fortunately Brendan's at the tail end of this illness, Liam in the middle, and Aidan just got hit (and as of this morning seems to be on the mend already.)    Liam slept literally all day and all night yesterday, with just bathroom breaks in between..  He wouldn't let us give him any meds, and since he slept through the doctors' hours and then the Immediate Care Center hours (the docs said we should go get him tested for strep) we decided to let him sleep and watched him like a hawk.  With no medical knowledge at all we didn't really think it was strep, just cause he did have a bad cold and didn't have trouble swallowing and had a cough and didn't have a particularly sore throat and from what I could see of his throat it didn't look red or white or weird.  And also Brendan seemed to be one step ahead of Liam in this illness and was doing much better.  And the doctor said you need to catch strep in the first 9 days, so we decided to give him the rest he wanted and long story short today he seems better this morning and is fever free.  I'm still going to be watching all three of them and will take them in the second it seems necessary.  But I'm trying really hard to be the right mix of cautious without being neurotic.  It's an uphill battle.  :o)

Eric has to go to CA for two weeks in mid March, and I am trying to decide if we should go with for the first week.  That could entail me flying in at least one direction with three kids by myself.  yowzers!  And my germaphobia will be in full swing at an airport in March.  And the boys would miss a week of school.  On the other hand we would be in California in March, so that would be awesome.  And I really don't see L, B & A being too comfortable with not seeing Eric for so long.  Ah, decisions, decisions.  Ok, back to laundry!!


Here's a pic of the boys playing either Angry Birds or Shoot the Apple.  Aidan really likes to be in  on everything...

And here's a cute pic from the Liam and Brendan's joint birthday party in January with their friends from school...  (realllly hope we can get the thank you cards sent out today.  You know, just a month late.)