So You May Be Wondering Where We've Been...

The short answer is, HERE! The long answer involves everyone being very sick except for Josh. Thankfully Maddie is feeling much better. We had a few very hard days (and harder nights). She was only sleeping if I was holding her... even Josh wouldn't do... and she stopped eating for about two days. We thought for a while we were going to end up in the hospital to get her IV fluids. Her pediatrician and her daddy are still not a hundred percent sure what she had. It looked at first like chicken pox, but now we're thinking hand, foot, and mouth. Either way, she had an atypical presentation of symptoms. Now she's back to her happy, sunny self. Her little spots are still there, but they're fading. Caleb and I were also sick, but luckily not as bad. As of today, I'm the only one still feeling under the weather, but it's nothing like it was.

Here are my two little sickies. This made me smile. We were all sitting in our pj's on the bed reading, and Caleb decided to "read" the book to Maddie. He's got it memorized well enough that he did a pretty good job until he got mad at her for messing up the little counting beads at the top. :-) Here's Madeline feeling better. She's already wrestled one sock off, and she's going for the other one. Rest assured she managed to pull it off shortly after the photo was taken. She chewed on it in triumph.
I'm not sure how it started, but any time you have a camera around Caleb he says "cheese" and puts his hands in front of his face. I'll have to figure out what on earth he's doing...

On a different note... Here is the bright spot in my week. My new washer and dryer came in. I'm in love. :-)