Weekend Update

Madeleine recovered from her illness by Friday morning. Fever and vomitting over. She was back to eating again. But I kept both her and Lily home from school again. When I called day care on Friday, most of the kids who came down with it on Wednesday were back in school on Friday. We ran some errands in the morning and hit the park in the afternoon.

Saturday we went to the TMOTT Easter Egg hunt. They didn't do one last year, so it had been two years since we'd been to a TMOTT picnic. We were the first ones there a little before 10 am. I knew from past experience that the girls would want to spend a lot of time on the playground and not eating/egg hunting.

We were some of the oldest kids there this time, so there was only one egg hunt for all the kids, but they had a good time anyway. We played in the backyard Saturday afternoon and then watched Ratatouille together before bed.

Sunday we went grocery shopping and had a neighborhood cookout in the afternoon.

Lily and the rest of us still haven't gotten sick (yet). I'll give it a week though before I'm convinced we dodged a bullet.

Sick girlies

We finally got it - the stomach virus that's been going around since January. I've lived in constant fear of it for months now since it seems like I've known somebody with it pretty much constantly this winter. Even I had it back in January without Eric or the girls somehow managing to get it.

Then it hit the day care about 2 weeks ago. I've been slowly watching it worm its way around the building.

Madeleine wasn't herself when I picked her up this afternoon. I took her temp when we got home, and it was 97.5. It's NEVER been that low. She didn't eat dinner. Then around 6 pm, she said her tummy hurt really bad, so I took her to the bathroom. She's thrown up 8 times since then. I try and get water into her, but she's just throwing it back up.

Lily's been in a good mood so far, but I expect her to come down with it soon. Eric's been out for the evening, so I don't know about him. I'm feeling a bit nauseous myself, but it could be just from dealing with vomit for the last few hours.

We are not the Osmonds

Bunnies

We kicked off the first of the holiday activities with the Town of Cary egg hunt on Saturday. This was the first time the hunt has been held on a Saturday, instead of Good Friday, so I was excited the girls would get to go.

That said, the hunt started at 10, so we were there before 9. We got an awesome parking spot and headed for the playground. The girls love the Bond Park playground anyway, so it was a no brainer. I couldn't believe more people hadn't gotten there early as well.

Around 9:45 we headed over to the field. Two years ago at the TMOTT egg hunt, the girls were the youngest and didn't get many eggs. So we told them this time to run for the back, leaving the up-close eggs for the littler kids. Then they should only get 5 eggs.

Madeleine listened very closely. She immediately took off for the back of the field. We found her at the far fence. Way past the eggs. Lily figured she'd pick up whatever was closest. There were tons of eggs, so the Harris Teeter mascot was even helping her pick them up.

Where's Mommy?

In my first "long" trip away from the family, I'll be at the USA Hockey Women's National Championships in Rochester, NY Thursday through Sunday. My team is the Carolina Black Widows.

You can check out updated standings here:

http://www.usahockey.com/Tournament/TournamentStandingTab.aspx?EventID=2192&AgeDivisionID=1467

Pay-per-view video available here:

http://video.fasthockey.com/

It's Spring

... and we're still talking about Mary and Baby Jesus.

Miss Connie found us some figurines at the dollar store and was awful nice to get them for us. They came with little books about the Christmas Story. I don't know what's funnier - them "reading" the story with added commentary or Madeleine's constant princess attire. Either way - THEE END.

Sparkly Teeth

Today was our much-anticipated first trip to the dentist. The girls had been learning about dental health in school during the last couple weeks, so we'd talked about what was going to happen. I'd also been talking with the staff at my dentist's office for two years about how this was going to go. Madeleine was convinced they were going to put glitter in her teeth.

They suggested that I bring them to my regular cleaning. The hygenist would explain everything she was doing to me during my cleaning. Then they would get to ride in the chair and see how comfortable the girls would be before proceeding.

We got there right at 8. The girls grabbed magazines off the rack to look at while we waited. Madeleine told me she wanted to play dentist at home, and they asked the receptionist if she was going to check their teeth.

Ms. Stacy was our hygenist. She got chairs for the girls to sit in, so they were right next to me. She showed them all the instruments, the light, and the chair. She did a quick check of my teeth and then proceeded cleaning with "Mr. Thirsty" and "Mr. Tickle." Lily talked pretty much the whole time, telling stories about a pretend farmer with green overalls. Madeleine asked questions about what was going on - what were the gloves for? whose teeth were in the pictures?

Madeleine sat in the chair first. I think she was most excited about wearing the special Ariel sunglasses. She rode up and down and carefully kept her hands in her lap. Stacy was able to look inside her mouth with the mirror and count teeth. She was also able to do a little bit of scraping. Stacy asked Madeleine if she wanted to try "Mr. Tickle," but Madeleine said, "No, not today."

Lily was a little more nervous in the chair, but she did all the same things Madeleine did. When they were done, Stacy let Madeleine try "Mr. Tickle" on her hand. The girls got little bags with toothpaste and a pencil to take home. On our way out the receptionist who overheard the girls talk about us playing "dentist" got us some surgical masks to wear. The girls gave Stacy big hugs and left happily with chocolate chip cookies.

Stacy said I can schedule them for a cleaning/checkup whenever I'm ready. They were some of the best new patients she's seen.