It's been a long week!!

Well.... You might as well have guessed that if I'm not blogging, we're either out of town or the kids are sick. As you guessed, it's the later....

Saturday morning Caleb woke up with a mild grade fever and a deep wet cough. By Sunday night his fever was well over 102.5 and I couldn't get it to come down. He was up all night coughing and had these super sad watery eyes... and the bags, oh the bags... his poor little eyes had these huge dark circles under them. He just looked horrible.

Monday morning Katherine woke up with the same thing. So instead of our usual preschool and story time, we took off to Dr. Jon's office. I told Jon that both kids were on Tylenol, Xopenex (nebulizer) and a prescription decongestant that Jon gave us last time we were in. He suspected that since I couldn't get his fever down, it was most likely a virus and there was nothing more he could do. Since Caleb was a good two days ahead of Katherine, he was the lucky recipient of the finger poke/blood draw. As suspected, it was a VIRUS ... no antibiotic, we just have to wait it out. So home we went for naps....

Tuesday they were still sick, so we had to cancel our play date... Today, the kids were STILL sick, so once again, no preschool and no kindermusik. Caleb wanted to go to kindermusik in the worst way. He was in tears -- sooo sad that he couldn't go....

So yea... we've been in the house since Saturday and let me assure you -- this is getting old! You can only paint so many pictures and do so many puzzles. Oh, and regardless of how sick Katherine was and how much she was coughing, it didn't keep her away from her gymnastics mat. She's been practicing the new skills Tarry taught her at her private lesson last week, and for the first time I can really tell a difference in her.

I am beyond hopeful that tomorrow we'll be back to normal. Katherine has her gymnastics class at 10, and then tomorrow night we have her preschool carnival. They've gone all out this year -- around 15 "games", a bounce house, dinner, and a silent auction, etc... Should be a really great time, and some of the stuff in the silent auction seriously rocks. Each class has made a ceramic vase with each of their little thumbprints and name. The thumbprints are turned into butterflies, and it's just adorable. Let's just say, I'm coming home with that vase. I don't care what it costs, consider it a donation to the school that Caleb and baby number 3 will attend, I'm getting that vase! They also have overnight packages, a photography package, a Hawkeye package (I'm sure Matt will love), but there's about 26 things in all. So even if the kids are still sick and can't go.... I'm going. I'm coming home with that vase!!