My lounger and my beauty queen

Aaaccckkk, Yuck!

Tonight I gave Kristen some milk. I hear her making this noise, "Aaaaccccckkkk, aaaaccckk!" I asked her what was wrong and she said, "This is not good, yuck. Mommy this milk is gross!" I wasn't sure what was wrong with it until I smelled it. It was definitely rotten. I felt bad..but it sure was funny.

Fire, call 911..nah, just throw it in the sink...

A few days ago I was making egg sandwiches for dinner. So, I was cooking up some bacon and had a second pan ready to put an egg in for Kristen. Meanwhile a paper plate (for the bacon) with paper towels was sitting behind the pan that was for the eggs. I turned on the flame for the egg and "whoosh" went my paper towel plate with bacon. Of course I am frantic and start to blow on the fire (already knowing this really doesn't work), and it of course spreads quickly. As the fire continued to burn all I could think was that I needed to call 911 because my house was going to burn down. For the life of me I could not think of what to do. Kristen was frantically running back and forth saying, "Mommy is that fire? Hot Mommy!" My next attempt to put the fire out was to throw my wet dish rag on top of it...stupid..the fire just cinged the dish rag and went up around it. Now the fire is from my stovetop to the bottom of my microwave...almost to my cabinets..and again all I could think was to call 911..nevermind the fire extinguisher that is sitting two feet away. Well finally I got this grand idea to pick it up and throw it in the sink and turn the water on. Wow, what a miracle that it put my paper towel plate bacon grease fire out! I no longer needed to call 911, but I did need to rescue my very burnt bacon that was drowning in water.

Shake your booty!

Tonight before dinner we had a family dance party! We do this pretty often, but tonight I was teaching Kristen some new moves. I taught her the "Shake your booty" move! It is so cute, she doesn't really get her booty shaking, just her arms (kind of like the chicken dance). I also taught her a few more moves....get down and boogie!!

The Verdict is.....

STOMACH FLU. Isn't that just great! So far today, Kristen has been doing so, so much better. We are still praying that Austin doesn't get it...hopefully Kristen won't be contagious too much longer! I have decided that I am going to carry around a spray bottle with rubbing alcohol in it! So, when we use public potties, we will all get a spritz of alcohol..! I have to say i am happy to have my girl semi- back to normal!

Waiting for sicky bugs to pass

Well we thought last night we were over this sickness with Kristen, but unfortunately it continues. Coming from both ends now...but able to keep a bit of water down. So, I am hoping tomorrow will be the last day of this crazy stuff. 72 hours is the longest stomach flu, right? Can you really hurl for more than 72 hours? Might be a record for the Guiness Book of World Records!

At a stand still

Last night at about 8:30pm Kristen started violently vomiting. Afterwards she felt better and i thought something from dinner must not have settled right with her tummy. Well i was dead wrong. Who knew that she would continue to wretch for the next 13 hours. It was insane. It stopped this morning and then she spiked a fever. Tonight she was finally able to keep down some liquid and food. I hope tomorrow she wakes up and it will be totally gone!

If you read this, please pray that the rest of the family stays healthy and does not get any symptoms..especially Austin. Thanks in advance.

Few random favorite pictures

Potty Training...Wow.

Yesterday, January 14th we started potty training Kristen. My mom came out to help me with Austin, which was a huge blessing. Well it started by taking Kristen's diaper off and putting her on the potty. The first time she didn't go, so we went ahead and put the beautiful Cinderella panties on her. She got in the chair to eat a snack at the table and soon began to pee. While saying, "Uh oh, Mommy this is not good" I rushed her to the potty. I think I shocked the pee right out of her because no more went into the potty. So, then we put new panties on and explained a little bit more about pee peeing on the potty and she went on her way. Could not have been a few minutes later when I saw her poo poo face emerge. I knew that I missed the moment and we already had poopies in the panties. So we again went to the potty cleaned up and explained a bit more about poo poo and the potty, put new panties on and she was on her way. Well that was it and all that needed to happen, because the rest of the day she went on the potty EVERY time!

Today, January 15th Kristen went in the potty every time again!! Today she continued to tell me when she needed to go potty and proceeded to go. Poopies even happened all be herself on the potty today! It was an amazing day! We will see what happens tomorrow!