There have been better days...

in the Harris household! This weekend, we experienced Caden throwing up for the first time ever. Poor guy! He was a champ, though. He was vomiting all of Friday night, beginning about midnight. I had heard him cough pretty loudly around midnight so went to check up on him (as mothers do) and found that he had thrown up all over himself and his crib. It was a mess. I decided that he needed a bath to make him feel better and to get the throw-up out of his hair. He was happy to be clean and with mommy and daddy. Chris stripped his crib and threw everything in the washer. After his bath, I took Caden downstairs to sleep in the guestroom with me. By 2am, he had stopped throwing up and I got him back to sleep. I just felt so sad for him. He had never experienced anything like this before and was probably scared and confused about what was going on.
Well, two days later, on Sunday night, the bug hit both Chris and I. We were both vomiting on Sunday night. It was awful! One thing I will never forget is when Chris and I threw up at the same time - me in the toilet and Chris in the kitchen sink, all the while Caden is sitting on the couch watching his Signing Time video. Getting Caden to bed was also a real challenge as we were both in the middle of feeling pretty miserable and on the verge of yakking at any second. I called the advice nurse around 2:30 am to see what I could take (since I can't take the usual medicine being pregnant) for the fever I had developed. I also asked about the contractions I was having after throwing up so many times - the good thing is they stopped when I stopped throwing up. At 3am I drove to Walgreens to get some children's tylenol, and to my surprise, wasn't the only one in the store at that hour! We survived the night and were feeling better by Monday. Chris worked from home on Monday and we just took it easy the rest of the day. We knew exactly how Caden felt, and he was a little Champ through it all.

Pure preciousness!
Caden during one of his extra long naps, recuperating from being sick.