And It Returns.....

the stomach bug!

Friday morning I was greeted with a very unhappy Ryan who was covered in the previous night's dinner.  Poor little man!  He barely ate anything all day, but acted himself. So we did our normal Friday evening routine & headed to Walmart for groceries. We were almost finished & I needed to look at some sweatpants, well Ryan was throwing a small fit in the stroller.  So I said okay, let's go and he proceeded to barf all down the front of himself many times. So we flew to the bathroom & got lots/lots/lots of paper towels.  We headed to the car while Bill paid for the groceries.  I stripped Ryan down to a diaper & put my jacket on him, put him in the carseat & then wrapped him up with paper towels.  And on the way home he was sick, sick, sick.  He got a bath, more sickness.  Finally in bed around 9:30pm and was fine the rest of the night but wouldn't eat anything all day Saturday.   He is back down to 18.9 lbs..... And Jordan is down to 21.3lbs (she was 23.1 pounds 3 days ago).

Saturday night at 11:30pm Jordan woke us up screaming.  I run in there while Bill slept and the poor girl was covered in her dinner.  So I change her, stripe down her bed, clean up the carpet quickly.  I get her back in bed so hopefully she can get back to sleep, which she does while I am hosing down her sheets, blankets, pillow case and all.  Nothing like starting laundry at midnight!  She slept fine the rest of the night, but I woke at every noise afraid she was sick again.

Sunday morning she woke covered in sickness again.  So again striped the bed down to the mattress, start another load of laundry & Bill pulled out the carpet cleaner!  She got sick again but then ate one pancake (it was tiny) and Ryan had 6.  It has been a couple hours and so far, so good.

Yesterday we sold almost all of our office furniture (a HUGE wall unit desk, chair & bookcase) for a low but fair price.  So with the money we made on that sale, we now need to find a much smaller desk for the desktop computer in our bedroom.  Not thrilled about having a computer/desk in our bedroom but we don't have much of a choice. The twins are going to need their own bedrooms at some point and still need a toy room.

I have been going through alot of things in our kitchen that we haven't used in years & are just taking up storage space, I put it all in boxes.  A couple weeks ago I had several clear plastic bowls that I put on Craigslist for free & a lady wanted them so we took them over after the Airshow.  She was a newly single mom who was deaf, she was SO appreciative!  So yesterday all of the things I boxed up from our kitchen, I took to her.  She almost cried!  I could have made some $$ on them at a garage sale but it felt good to help her out.

Feeling extremely tired after being up 1/2 the night & the washer just beeped again.  Hopefully this stomach bug is only a 24hr bug!  Ryan will have a weight check on Wednesday and a follow up appt with the GI doc on Thurs.  We are going to suggest some allergy testing and testing for coelic disease.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeliac_disease

We hope he doesn't have either but it is just something a friend suggested we have checked out.

We will keep you updated on what is going on.