sickos

like we needed anything else in our lives right now, but madelyn, maddux, and matt have each taken a turn with a stomach bug going around here right now. so far maddux and i have managed to avoid it.

it started with madelyn on thursday night. she told me that her stomach hurt, i asked if she needed to go to the bathroom, she said yes, and headed to the bathroom (this conversation happens from time to time and isn't that odd). but then she stopped in front of the fireplace and emptied her stomach before grandma got to her and carried her the rest of the way to the bathroom. i think madelyn's was the worst because she was first and kept asking to drink water or eat something (2 crackers max). whenever she ate or drank it came right up. she often would get to the point of nothing but bile. mason would follow her into the bathroom and hold his head over the toilet too with pretending to spit (the way he does when brushing his teeth). if it wasn't so gross i would have taken video because he was so cute doing what he thought was a silly game. madelyn got up five or six times to get sick (matt slept through all of them) but she finally got to sleep around 3:30am. it was good that she finally settled down because i had run out of clean sheets and pillows. she was sleeping on a towel with a folded towel for a pillow. it has been a little over a year since the last time she was this sick (i think it was before mason was born). thankfully, it only lasted around 12 hours, there was no fever, and she was fine by the time we were ready to go out friday night. this led us to think that it was food poisoning from chocolate milk she had drank with lunch.

saturday night we were paged out of church for mason. matt went to see what was up only to find mason in a borrowed shirt because he had vomited "everything in his stomach" - so madelyn didn't have food poisoning. we decided that we would take him home and leave grandma and big pop at church with madelyn for movie night. apparently mason hadn't really vomited everything in his stomach because he vomited quite a bit in his carseat while we pulled into the driveway and tried to get him out of the car. i stayed home with mason and maddux while daddy went back to church for big pop, grandma, and madelyn. once mason's stomach was empty he fell asleep sitting on my lap. while he was still vomiting i was pushing his head over the toilet so that it wouldn't be such a mess. i think that is when he figured out that madelyn had not been having fun when she was 'spitting' in the toilet. matt and i decided that madelyn would sleep in our bed with matt while i slept in madelyn's bed to help mason should he need to vomit anymore. thankfully, we now knew not to offer any water and mason didn't vomit much after he got his stomach empty. he would heave and sort of leave a very small puddle of drool on his sheet. since he sleeps laying the short length of the bed i would just slide him down to a clean spot. around 2:30am he came over and slept the rest of the night in madelyn's bed with me. i did have some trouble with mason and maddux both being awake at the same time around 5:30am so mason sat on my lap while i fed maddux. thankfully, mason was getting back to normal in time for our photos on sunday (there will be a separate post).

matt came home from work on monday and stayed home on tuesday too. he suffered more from a lack of calories than anything else (since we had learned you can't allow any fluids or solids with this bug).

it looks like we might be done with this thing - i hope. love.