nervous breakdown

You succeeded in giving mom a nervous breakdown, squirt! Yesterday afternoon, during a routine meal you threw up all over me. I caught most of it on my lap and stood up and you threw up again. I'm not talking just a little spit up either. We had to take a bath to get it all cleaned up and you threw up in the bath and a few more times while I tried to get you dressed. By this time your little body was exhausted and I had to take you in to the clinic to see your doctor. Of course, your dad's truck is not running and he wasn't answering his telephone at work so I had to flag down a neighbor to take us in. You did throw up in her car, but I mostly caught it in my hand as there wasn't much left in your little belly. They tried to tell me they didn't have any appointments at the doctor's office, but believe me, I threw enough of a fit to get my doctor's nurse to run back and forth between the myself and your doctor in some training session. Turned out that you had a 24 hour stomach virus that's been going arounds. I have no idea how you got it, but I was worried that maybe you gave it to Kayden so we called Joy when we got home from the doctor. You slept for 3 hours or so, with me checking on you every 15 minutes and I called Joy and told her all about it. Not only do you slobber on and share toys with each other, but you were actually sucking on his toes the day before, so I figured if one of you got sick, so would the other. As of today he still has no symptoms, but we'll see. After you woke up last night you didn't throw up anymore, but we took special care of you and made sure everything was okay. I've never seen you so exhausted as you were after throwing up a few times. It took you every ounce of energy to do it and you'd be so limp afterwards that it scared me to death. I guess I should look at it as a good thing, since your immune system is getting stronger, but so far there is nothing worse than having a sick child when they can't tell you what is wrong with them. Try not to scare me too bad for a little while, because I need some recovery time. Your dad was really worried about you too and came home in a hurry after work with some apple juice in case you needed some more liquid to keep you hydrated. Fortunately you were feeling better and gave him a big smile like usual when he walked in the door. Your grama, grandpa, and aunts all know about your incident and were sad to hear you got sick, but they know how tough you are and cheered you on for how good you were through it all. Aunt Erin has moved into a house full of boys this semester, so she is learning how hard that can be since they aren't really concerned with buying food for themselves or cleaning up after themselves. Her and Dust did find jobs though, so they can save up to come back out and see you again. Aunt Jill and Uncle Noah bought a bird because they are crazy. They should just open an animal shelter out of their home and you can have a crazy cat lady for an aunt. Grama bought her ticket to come out and see you for her Spring Break in March and we're excited about that. Who knows what you'll be doing by then. Now we just need to get your grandpa out here. When he gets some time, I'm sure he'll try, but until then he'll have to keep printing off those pics I send him and add them to your collage of pictures he already has. Keep us laughing and we'll keep you informed on the latest going on.