No Christmas Portraits This Year

With Gabby and Bella having chicken pox now, it looks like I will have to cancel having our family portrait done. Which means I won't be sending out our family portrait with Christmas cards this year. I guess it will have to be the card I send out for Valentine's instead. *pout* (I hate it when my plans get derailed.)

Bella missed her preschool portraits. She was at school that day, but they needed a signed form from us which we never got. They sent them out on the day I was in the hospital giving birth, so Bella was not at school that day. And even though Isabella was at school the day before the portraits were done, and Robert dropped her off in the morning the portraits were taken and the school had plenty of opportunity to tell him about the portraits and get him to sign the form, they did not. So she missed out on them. *sigh*

I was going to go and have them done somewhere else and I was annoyed because it will cost me a lot more than if the school had done them, but now it will have to wait too.

The chicken pox spots are not showing on their faces yet, and hopefully they never will, but it's a waiting game to see how bad it will get.

And we found out where they caught chicken pox. When I informed Gabby's school about her having chicken pox, they told me they have had no other cases of it this year. (They will now!) But when I informed Isabella's preschool about her having chicken pox, I was told that a couple of children had been out with it two weeks ago. *sigh*

The girls have been great today, despite Gabby having had to miss out on her school play. We told them they had to stay upstairs today and we set up the laptop in their room to play DVDs for them. When they got bored with that, they pulled out the Twister game and played with it for a while.

Robert went out for a little bit today to fix a friend's computer, and now that he is home, they have coerced him upstairs to play Twister with them. I'm debating sneaking up with the video camera and filming it. It ought to be really funny to watch!

New sicknesses

My 15 year old Angelica has been complaining about a headache for the past four days. I'm beginning to think it might be a migraine, because she's really pale, and she's not eating much. Yesterday, after getting home from school and walking her dog, she went to bed and didn't wake up until we woke her for school this morning. She had a nosebleed a few nights ago, but she gets nosebleeds all the time. She took Ibuprofen for her headache and said it didn't help at all.

I think, if she's still got the headache tonight, I will have to take her to see the doctor in the morning. I feel awful for her.

My 6 year old Gabby's been home for three days with an on and off fever. I might just have to set up a doctor appointment for her too. She was okay yesterday, so I decided she could go back to school today, but then last night, she developed a high fever all over again, complete with crying in her sleep and talking nonsensically.

Another One Sick!

While it finally looks like the youngest three who've been sick for most of this week are better now, Angelica, my fifteen year old, woke up early this morning to throw up. So we are not past this horrible virus yet! *sigh*

Connor isn't better yet either

The morning after Robert stayed up with a sick Gabby and I stayed up with a sick Bella, Connor started throwing up again. We spent one night, finally, last night, with no one throwing up, and so far everything is calm today, but I'm just waiting for the next bout of this in one of the kids, or for one of the teens to come down with it.

If Connor and Gabby follow the pattern that Bella had for this illness, then Connor should start doing better but Gabby should still have another day or two of this.

I was feeling ill last night, but I think it was caused more by being overtired than anything.

Isabella is not better yet

With Connor being sick and Gabriella falling ill too, I thought that Isabella was past the illness mostly. She had not thrown up for a day and a half, but she still was barely eating. Well, she woke up last night having thrown up all over herself and her bed again. So while Robert stayed up all night with Gabby, I stayed up all night with Bella.

Connor ate dinner last night and everything stayed down. He had some toast for breakfast today too, and still seems okay. Isabella decided she could have some toast. She ate it and then fell asleep. I sure hope it doesn't come back up!

I am so ready for this virus to have passed us by!

Sickness

Wednesday night, Robert and I were awakened to a crying Isabella (our three year old) who had just thrown up all over herself and her bed. It was ten minutes to 1:00am. After cleaning her and her bedding up, giving her a bowl and having it happen again two more times, I went downstairs with her and stayed up to catch her with the bowl in hand before she threw up each time. At 9:00am, she threw up for the last time, and the rest of the day, she was tired but seemed okay otherwise.

The next day, Friday morning, when Connor (our two year old) woke up at around 7:00am, I noticed he didn't seem well. He started throwing up too. He threw up less often than Isabella did, but his illness lasted longer and made more mess because he had less warning and refused to let the bowl be anywhere near him. He kept running a fever too. His last time of vomitting was at 11:00am today. But he ate dinner tonight and everything stayed down and he started acting more like himself.

Kayla (our 14 year old) is absolutely brave and caring for her age. At one point yesterday, Connor was cuddling up to her and threw up all over her. After showering and changing clothes, she came back downstairs and let him cuddle up to her again. Not a lot of girls her age would have done that, and I'm really proud of her.

Today, Robert took Gabriella (our 6 year old) and two of her friends (Adam and Hannah) to see the Disney movie Igor, and then to McDonald's. It was a treat for her because she didn't get a birthday party this year. She had a great time. But this evening at about 5:30pm, she told us she didn't feel well and needed a bowl. She has thrown up several times since then. She recently told me as she lay there suffering that she still had a mostly good day because of the first part of the day.

I really, really hope neither of her two friends get sick from being around her today. I honestly did not expect her to fall ill with this.

Robert is starting to not feel well now. The only three who haven't caught this awful virus so far are Angelica, Kayla and me. I sure hope none of us get it!