happy valentine's day

our table looked so festive after breakfast that i took a picture. matt was able to work from home today so i left everyone but mason with him and headed to the gym. i wasn't going to go because madelyn was off school and said she wanted to spend valentine's day with me (awww), but matt gave me ridiculously large boxes of chocolate for valentine's (see them stacked in the picture above). ironically, maddux was much better than yesterday, but because he had a fever last night he could not go to school today. so off to school mason went.

when i picked mason up, his teacher voiced her concern about his cough. she said that it was non-stop. i told her what the doctor had said about the cough being okay as long as there wasn't a fever. he was also very tired from staying up all night. it was like he was ready for a party last night. he kept waking us up to talk to us - quite happily! at least he was happy about it. matt and i were exhausted. and then mason got a 103 fever tonight.

both big boys were given a dose of medicine before bed (we were hoping for some relief for them and us). madelyn said that she didn't feel well and needed some medicine too. we just wrote it off as feeling left out and wanting some attention. the boys had both started with coughs for a few days before getting the fever and madelyn had not coughed at all. and then she threw up. [hanging head as worst mom.] maybe it wasn't a food related illness mason had last weekend after all. just like mason, madelyn only got sick twice and then woke up in the night ready to go because she felt so well.

good thing that we didn't have any romantic plans for the weekend!  love.