Stomach Bug

So that bug Ella had...she shared! She was sick for about 4 hours....and that was about it....really was fine from that point on....well Josh and I went to work on Monday....feeling fine. Josh called me around 11 and said...I'm not feeling well...I'm headed home. When he called me....I had been feeling a little ehhh for about an hour...but I thought it might pass....well a little time goes by...and yeah it's not going away...so I told my manager...I don't think I'm going to be able to stay (she knew Ella was sick over the weekend)...I called Josh (about 45 minutes after he had called me)...and said...I'm coming home...he told me to leave Ella at the sitters so we could both rest. I got home and got right into bed....and within the hour....I was super sick. It was so awful....both Josh and I were VERY sick...thank goodness we now have two bathrooms!! At about 4:30....we had to leave to go pick Ella up....I was a little sicker than Josh (if that's possible)...so he said he would go get her....I asked him to get ginger ale on the way home...I would have paid big money to get my hands on a bottle of ginger ale! While Josh was gone...I made my way upstairs to the couch as I knew he would be home with Ella soon. He got home and he went and got in the bed...and Ella was a pretty good trooper....she knew we were sick and did a fairly good job at entertaining herself....the worst part was she wanted dinner...of course she did...she was healthy and hungry! I told her the only thing I could do was make an English muffin for her....poor girl....I could barely handle that. Thankfully she was a good girl...and she went to bed just fine....and as soon as she was in bed...Josh and I got into bed....we were so pathetic...we had all these layers on....3 comforters on our bed...and we were both shivering the bed felt like it was shaking! Ugh....but that's all behind us...WORST 24 hours that I have experienced in a really long time! We were both overdue....we figured it out...Josh was last sick with a bug in 2004 (he hasn't been sick once since we've been married)....I've had a few little things here and there...but not like this bug....but I do have to say....it didn't stick around too long! It did take us about 4 days to get our appetite back. But we're all healthy now!

The rest of the week went fine....I actually had Wednesday off...I had taken a vacation day (planned it a few months ago)....so Josh decided to take that day off too. It was a really low key day. I had my physical set up for 11 - so I went to that (nice and healthy!) Josh and Ella waited in the car. Then we went to Josh's work for a few minutes. Came home and got Ella down for a nap. Then had to get her up....she had a Doctors appointment at 3:45. We were meeting with an allergist. They were really testing to see if she was allergic to penicillin. We talked to him for a while....and he said that since she's already been on 2 different kinds of penicillin and the "reaction" that she had is unfortunately just a side effect from the medication. He was very confident that she was not allergic to it. We talked to him also about seasonal allergies...he said we could test for it...it was completely up to us....but at this point....she's young...I didn't feel it was necessary. We use the zyrtec and it has helped so much...and we run the air purifier in her room...which I think has also really helped. So we're going to hold off on all that for now.

Saturday was going to be another nice day....in the 70's....so we wanted to do something fun. Josh has worked so much in the last 4-6 weeks....we haven't seen a whole lot of him....so he wanted to do some fun family activities! We decided on the zoo in Roanoke. It's a little zoo. It happened to be their "spring fling" this past weekend...so we headed there....

 

We looked at all the animals....then we played on a little playground there....and Ella and Josh built a birdhouse (a whole thing they had set up by Home Depot there)...And then we rode on the "zoo choo" train....all in all...it was a fun time! Ella loved waving to everyone.

We then went to lunch at Red Robin. We were going to head home and Ella said...I want to go look at toys (sometimes we'll just walk the toy aisle at Target....cheaper than buying new toys!!) Josh said why not....lets go walk off our lunch! We were right by the mall so we stopped....well they have a "Build-A-Bear" store there....and probably about a month ago Josh and I were talking about doing something like that with Ella...I didn't even know they had one in Roanoke....so we walk into the mall and we're walking around....and I spotted it....so of course we had to go check it out!


She picked out which "bear skin" she wanted....

 

Then she stood on the pedal to help fill the bear up with stuffing!

 

Making sure she is nice and squishy.

 Then at the end....the bear gets a bath to get nice and clean.
They also have about 1000 different outfits and accessories to go with it! We let her pick out one thing she wanted the bear to wear...so she's in a pretty spring dress (and I already checked out eBay and found lots of outfits that run about a $1 compared the $15 in the store!).

So now her bear is her new friend...and she'll say....Can the bear that I made come in the car with me? Can the bear that I made sit at the table with me? She's also very obsessed with her birdhouse....Why are there no birds in my birdhouse?? So tonight...Josh rigged up a spot to put the birdhouse on the deck so she can look out the doors in the kitchen and see her birdhouse. She was thrilled with that. Hopefully we'll see a bird!

Tonight I made my very own mushroom cream sauce to serve with spinach ravioli....I told Josh....this tastes better than Olive Garden! :)

Well...that was our week....we're hoping for a healthy week this week!