Posting pictures tonight took forever! I knew the videos were getting old, though. So here they are. Man. Sometimes this blog kills me! (Only because it can take forever to do one post!)
Sunday before church (Cameron was wearing his Easter tie and carrying his phone in his shirt pocket).
It was such a nice day that I washed the car today. This is how Charlotte kept herself occupied. (I know my mom will cringe at these-- that's not oreo cookie on her face.)
Cameron had a lot of fun while I washed the car, too. A little too much fun. This is our makeshift timeout. He's visited the timeout spot a few times today. Oh school... next week is too far away!
Well, I've been feeling better re. the inner ear thing. AND THEN...
a stomach bug entered our house. NOOOOOOOO!!!! I went to check on the kids one night before I went to bed and noticed that Cameron wasn't anywhere near his pillow and was on top of his blankets. So I moved him a little and woke him up. A little cough later and WAMMMMMMO! Buckets of vomit spewed forth all over his bed. I ran to get a towel and yell for Chad and when I came back, WAMMMMMMMMO! More vomit. By this point, Chad and I agreed to split up duties. I was to give Cameron a bath and Chad would take care of the sheets. I took Cameron into the bathroom and he started crying. Poor kid wanted to hug me, but I only gave him a half-hug since he was covered in...
WAMMMMMMMO!! At least this wasn't as much vomit as the two times before. And then WAAMMMMMMOOOOO! Into the toilet this time. Yikes.
So I plopped him into the bathtub while I cleaned up the bathroom floor, rug, and toilet. NASTY stuff. And I have a terribly weak stomach, so I thought for sure I'd lose it.
Once in the bathtub, Cameron was fine. Everything got cleaned up, sheets were changed, and we put Cameron back to bed. He said he felt a lot better. Charlotte had woken up, but just played quietly in her crib. Nice.
The next day after dinner, Cameron had to make a WAMMMMO trip to the kitchen trash can. Ugh. I really couldn't stand it much longer.
Charlotte was sick, too, although her sickness manifested itself in crankiness and MAJOR blowouts. I don't breastfeed her, so blowouts aren't a usual occurrence at our house. But multiple times a day, I would pick her up and notice a nasty, yellow, wet mark on the back of her onesie above her diaper. Great.
Oh, and it's been especially great (sarcasm) cause Charlotte slipped in the tub last week. So now she screams bloody murder when I sit her down in the tub, again when I pour water on her back, and even more when I try to wash her hair. Awesome.
SO THEN, Chad and I went out for pizza one night to celebrate his proposal being signed off and at 2am, I woke up to go to the bathroom and thought I would lose my dinner. Really? I mean, really? Didn't I just post about this 6-week-long illness I was just getting over and now THIS? UGH.
But, like all crappy things, it's coming to an end. Yes, thankfully, I'm feeling a lot better today. It was sad cause our friends and old neighbors came into town for a visit, but we couldn't see them cause I was too sick and I was also afraid this stomach thing was pretty contagious. Interesting how Chad never seems to get sick... Hmmmmm. Maybe he knows something I don't (something other than the constant hand-washing, laundering, and sanitizing I've done for the past two months!).
Ok. Enough of all of that. Here are two videos (I'm doing more videos lately cause I got a small video camera for Christmas and it's a lot smaller and easier to whip out then my big, honkin camera) of Cameron. He's kind of quiet, so you'll have to turn your volume up.
I've been waiting for what seems like years for Spring to arrive. Alas, we still have snow on the ground. BUT, it's been in the upper 40s/lower 50s the last few days with rain. Which means, melting snow!
I've been sick for the past 6 weeks with a cold, inner ear virus, and another cold/sinus issues. I've been to the doctor at least 4 times, had a CT scan on my sinuses, blood work done, and had countless phone calls with nurses. They all think (and I finally came to the same conclusion through a lot of prayer and some promptings) that this is a crazy virus. I've had two blessings and know I'll get better.
So, needless to say, this has been quite trying for me... mostly because I've been kind of dizzy/out of it and really tired with a lot of sinus headaches. But, I feel better this week already. Still not 100%, but I'm getting there. And we're going to the Temple on Saturday which is something I really need. It's been.....
ONE YEAR since we went to the Temple. I know. Slap me on the hand. I'm pretty ashamed. But I felt that I was too big and pregnant after last March to go. Then Charlotte came in July and if you have kids, you know how hard it can be to go to the Temple. (Even though that's a horrible excuse.)
So, things are good. I read my patriarchal blessing tonight-- something I've needed to do for months, but kept putting off and then forgetting. And I really felt the love of the Lord for me. And, like I just mentioned, I so needed that. I've felt really alone being sick, feeling like no one else knew exactly what I was/have been feeling. And I also kind of had this doom and gloom picture of the future-- that I would never get better, that I would always feel awful and wouldn't be able to do fun things with my kids, etc. Not really sure why I was so dramatic about this cold/virus/cold thing. All I know is that Satan really got a hold of me-- made me doubt my faith in priesthood blessings and in Heavenly Father's love for me, in general.
Don't worry... I know better!
So, on to some lighter things. Here are two videos I took of the kids over the weekend. And sorry for my baby voice in them (I think it's totally annoying), but I was trying to get Charlotte to talk.
Enjoy.
(Oh, and it was a Sunday afternoon and the kids had really no clean clothes. Please don't think I let Cameron go to school the way he was dressed!)
