Week 198 and Week 110.5 - Drake House Down!

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS POST DEALS WITH CHILDHOOD SICKNESS – AKA VOMIT.  PROCEED WITH CAUTION

Well, this has been a busy week.  One of these super stir crazy weeks.  I think we are just rounding out 6 days of sickness in Casa Drake.  6!  It started with Charlotte and her projectile rice noodles (the sort of thing you don’t ever want to eat again after seeing it all over your husband, the bathroom counter, the sheets).  In the end I think we thought that our ancient Panadol was probably the cause of the vomiting and threw it out after 2 consecutive nights of sheet changing (twice on the first night).  Next up, Sophia gets the projectiles.  This made for a pretty uneventful weekend overall.  Sophia’s was longer lasting and then evolved into the runs.  And then on Wednesday Matt and Imee both went down (I have had a pretty busy work week so have been not around the kids as much).  So I took Char and Sophia to Capoiera and Sophia pooed through her pants while there.  Char was a champ and back at school on Tuesday (though we are still not on board with the whole full day premise yet – more on that later).  Sophia just got back into school today after 4 days off (and then 4 more days and then off for most of a month!). 

We are still not at 100% as of this writing but at a decent 85%. 

Charlotte has been super whiny and spoiled of late.  I am not sure it is because everyone is sick and she is not (and gets little sympathy).  I really lost my patience with her as I was trying to change Sophia (unhappy in her wet pants and shoes) while Char was whinging on and on about wanting a candy.  Sigh.  At that very moment I was lamenting why we don’t live closer to family.  You know, having peers to keep you in line is good when you are little.  We don’t have nearly enough of them here L.

Sophia has completely inherited the pathetic sick gene from yours truly.  I mean, just a total mess, I-am-the-only-person-who-has-ever-been-sick demeanor complete with occasional outbursts of “I’M SICK!”  My kids certainly are not rough and tumble with what ails them (though Charlotte is whiny she lacks the pathos that is Sophia).  I am sure Matt just shakes his head at his house full of Kye girl illness.

Sickness has contributed to the slippery slope that is our newfound co-sleeping habit.  Last night I fell asleep with Charlotte and woke up to sleep in our room – and I found Sophia sleeping in my bed!  Then Charlotte woke up too – she is a bit of a sleep tether and gets up when I do.   So I went back to sleep in the guest room with her.  I awoke at 5:30 to go jog(!) and there Char was too – awake.  I convinced her to sleep in the living room while I went for a jog.  Sophia does not like to sleep in her crib anymore and sleeps in Charlotte’s toddler bed and our bed but Matt says she is a noisy and rambunctious bedfellow.  When does she become a sound sleeper?  Age 3?  Now the crib is reserved for when she does not want to sleep but we need her too.  Not ideal but sometimes necessary.

Ack - when did Sophia become a little girl (and not a baby)?

Posing:

Photos taken before acute illness (and with the bribe of a sweetie):

Sigh.  Waiting for daddy to fetch the car at the Venetian with some more sweets.  So boring! 

Sophia may be left-handed!

Sad sick Sophia!

A new use for the crib - storage and play!

Week 197 and Week 109.5 - Tham's birthday party!

This week has been pretty uneventful for us – and that is good as we have lots of exciting things in store for our trip to the US.

Speaking of the US – unseasonably cold weather had affected much of the country over the past week.  And Matt, in his ever endearing state (?), taunts me with it.  He certainly knows how to push my hot (cold!) buttons as I am such a cold weather wimp.  I am assuming that we will be inside most of the time, looking at each other with the fire roaring in the fireplace as a backdrop.  He is going to make me go out there and face the cold (assuming that it is not negative forty degrees).  Why?  Why?  I know my sister would not dare go out there.  Sigh.  The lifestyle of the cold weather is not for me I think – too much stuff to get lost (and I lose enough stuff on my own thanks to the empty mindedness that is motherhood).

Charlotte is adjusting slowly to this afternoon school thing – we will give it a month but would be happy for her to go back to going half day.  There is still a lot of crying and little eating or sleeping there (though she did nap two days ago – yay!).  I just think she is darn little to be gone most of the day and I hope that she feels the same way too.  But again, her decision after a month (and then another month while we are in the US).

There were several mornings where Charlotte was inconsolable on the car ride home - and we listened to Californication and it was all better.

Last weekend we went to Qube2 to a birthday party of our friend Paul’s son Tham, a gleeful child who just turned 6.  It was very fun – the girls enjoyed hanging out with the Rainey kids and basically ate air, 2 chicken nuggets between them, five bites of red fondant and 4 cups of Orange Fanta.  I also took them to the Macau Science Centre – which is really an easy outing with both the girls.  Yay – will do again if we can get our act together to be back in the house by noon (no small undertaking indeed!).

Inspired by Paul's daughter Hannah (who is two and eats much better than our girls do), I want to institute better mealtime routines – if any of you read the blog and have suggestions I will welcome them in your comments (and I appreciate your comments).  Starting in March 2014 – a bit more discipline.

Sophia sure loves these ball pits:

Daddy and Uncle Damien:

Birthday!

The girls are good at sitting in tiny chairs:

Where is Charlotte?

The lovely Raineys:

The girls loved these inflatable slides:

Tham's 6!

I like this photo - flash simultaneousness (is that a word?):

Afterwards we went to take photos with the Dreamworks characters.  Sophia is scared of the lion and Charlotte the dragon (I agree the dragon is scary!):