Recovery

Maren:
Now that Thanksgiving is over we are officially gearing up for Christmas at our house.  Mommy has been a little behind schedule this year because we have been fighting some really yucky colds.  Just a few days after Pica and Grammie headed home I came down with an awful fever and got sent home from school.  Mommy picked me up and had to take me back to her office for the day.  I snuggled up in her office chair and watched movies while she worked until she could take me home.  Unfortunately I had a fever for 5 or 6 days and was just not my normal self.  I hardly wanted to eat, really didn't want to play... I just wanted to sit on the couch or lay in bed.  When mommy asked me, I would tell her that nothing hurt, but I was obviously not feeling well.  She finally took me in to the doctor when my temperature hit 104.7 and they told her it was just a virus that would eventually run its course.  It took me a long time to get over it and I am still recovering. 
Unfortunately mommy ended up getting sick with baby brothers yuckies during the weekend when we were supposed to decorate for Christmas.  But she got daddy to help out and somehow mustered the strength to get the house mostly decorated.  I am so excited for Christmas to come!  The tree is up... though I was a bit disappointed in how small it is this year... and there are already presents under it! I tell mommy and daddy every day how excited I am to open them up! 

Maddox:
Being a baby is no fun when it comes to colds and I have had some really bad luck.  A few days after my sissy got sick I came down with something totally different and spent one night vomiting all over myself (and my poor mommy while she held me).  Luckily once I got my tummy empty that whole mess stopped but I had yucky diarrhea for a few days after.  That made me equally unhappy!  Then, I broke with a fever and now have been fighting that for about a week.  Mommy is at her wits end with all of this sickness! 
I have been spreading my wings and really getting around.  Unfortunately, our floors are really hard!  Especially the bathroom tile!  Mommy was desperately trying to disinfect the house the other day and I was right in the middle of it all.  She was vacuuming the floor and while I attempted to crawl over the hose my hands slipped out from underneath me and WHAM-O right onto my head.  I ended up with a nice bruise and a golf ball sized swelling right on my forehead.  Won't be the first I'm sure!