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Cereal face!





We're fighting the Croup again here in the land of sickness! Vince is coughing away and sounds terrible, but is still in pretty good spirits and only a little fever. Mia is still healthy, so that's great. We took a bunch of pictures today for all you fans out there, I hear it when I go too long! So here you go...

Working on my workbook....

Love my "wittew sista"!

ALWAYS giving her kisses! ALWAYS.

Mommy painted a couple of my nails- I WANTED her to, daddy!

Another lover of TV!

"Bal-cano!" (volcano)

Soon-to-be matching grins.

While recovering from pneumonia....

Mia LOVES riping up magazines!

So happy to be outside again!

" Wuv' my bike Mommy!"

See ya!

Made in the shade!

We missed you mommy!

Who knew you could get pneumonia in August?! Well, you can, and I am proof!! Last week was a terrible week, after 3 interviews on Tuesday I started feeling really terrible- I was freezing and EXHAUSTED and that night when I woke up with Mia to nurse I was sweating and almost dropped her because I was so weak. But, the next day after a little while I perked up again after some Aleve and brushed it off. Well, the following day I had to deliver a meal to a mother in my mom's group that I had missed the previous day and doggedly made cheesey potatos and stopped at the store and got her a chicken while having my kids fed and dressed all by naptime. So, we get home and take a nap and I'm starting to get more sick. By Friday I told Gabe he couldn't go to work and leave me with the kids because I couldn't get out of bed, which he knew was bad because I'm NOT that type of person. The fever, body aches, headaches, chills, small cough, and shear exhaustion were terrible and plain old Aleve was no longer doing it. On Saturday morning I woke up and could feel the cough in my chest and I thought; Oh no, time to go to the Dr. So Gabe dragged me to the Urgent Care where he thought it was probably the flu or maybe pneumonia and asked if I wanted a chest X-ray as I layed up in a ball on the examining room freezing . Knowing what I felt and worrying about the kids made me wait another 30 minutes to take the X-ray and wait for the results in which case he thought that it WAS probably Walking Pneumonia- he couldn't be sure with the X-ray and me breastfeeding, but he gave me a Z-pac(or C) and sent me home. I felt worse that day and evening and of course Mia would sleep no other place that night other then right by mommy! I made it through the next 2 or 3 days and here we are!! Thank God- I've never been so sick or thankful for good health! I see now how this is what kills many older people and young children- it is ROUGH and exhausting! I'm still working on catching my breath. I'm glad to have caught it early, I'm sure it could have gotten much worse and that would have been BAD.

Today, Tuesday, dad went back to work and the kids and I got dressed (yay!) and even made an appearance outside! It's been a great day, but boy, am I ready for a nap!!

Thanks for taking care of me Gabe- even though I had to drag you away from your work computer a couple times! XOXO

A Crazy week and a half!

Well, Mia Rose was finally born on February 4, 2009 after being slightly forced into it with Petocin! I was actually already contracting, but was helped along a little, which was nice because I wanted to eat lunch! Selfish- I know.... She can out at 12:05 pm after about 10 minutes of pushing and weighed 9 lbs. 11 oz. and 21 in.! I knew she was big, but CRIP!

That evening my parents called to say that Vince was getting worse with his cold and come to find out after Gabe went home to stay with him, that he had Croup! What lousy timing! This kid is NEVER sich and never this sick if he is!! So after some consideration and a couple days at home, Mia and I went to stay with my parents to "hide" from it.

Too bad it didn't work! Mia is now sick and having a sick newborn is SCARY! We're constantly cleaning out her nose, she has a little cough, and I keep checking for breathing! Don't rememeber the last time I was this stressed...

That together with having family visits, etc. has made for an exciting week and a half that feels more like a month! Thank God Gabe has been home and will be for a little while longer.