We welcomed December in our usual fashion...by being sick.
Turbo celebrated his b-day with a horrible bug that had him laid out on the couch for 3 days. (Apparently not how he intended to spend it, as he did bunches of complaining about missing work on his birthday and not even being able to enjoy it.)
Last week Lucy had a similar cold that landed her in the ER for a handful of hours. After nearly arguing with the Dr. because we did not think it was congestion that was making our girly so ill they finally gave her a chest x-ray that revealed a 'slight pneumonia' and justified our complaints. (Needless to say I was a little irritated with how often they said she was cute and how little they acknowledged our concerns about her being sick. We know she's adorable, she's ours!)
This week Rex took his turn, barfing his brains out all Sunday, in the ER for IV fluids on Monday, and given the same pneumonia diagnosis on Wednesday. To make matters worse, he bumped heads with another kid while playing on a 'huge snow mountain' at school last week. He was sporting the coolest shiner we've seen in a while as he went through this whole ordeal, cool enough to get lots of comments and stares from the doctors and nurses (including one nurse that asked if we wanted to do a CAT scan...). We were kind of hoping we could retake our Christmas card photo to include the black eye, but since everyone was so sick we had to settle for this...
an awesome pic of Rex in the ER after what appears to be a first rate boxing match.
(Oh, and don't worry, Nate strong like bear.)
