Friday, April 23, 2010

A Pitiful Pity Party

I need sympathy in a bad way. No, scratch that. I DESERVE sympathy in a bad way. Mama has had her second tummy bug in the period of a month. To put it mildly, my stomach HATES me right now. After a happy Easter and weekend of celebrating Mr. Todd's 2nd birthday (see pics below), Hayley managed to come down with a sudden stomach flu over a week ago. Now, I just have to brag because my children sure do know how to share.

But this was a bad bug. I even have the proof.

Yep, Todd and Hayley were rendered completely immobile for about 2 days. It's taken a full week for them to get their stomachs back to normal to the point that they will eat. I'm still not to that point and Brian seems to be fighting a touch of all this as well. Not fun.

Luckily, before the plague we had some fun! We had a great weekend celebrating Todd's SECOND birthday! I can hardly believe my big boy is 2! I'm pretty sure he grew three inches the week of his birthday and I've had several people ask me if he's a three year old lately. He absolutely adores his big sister (most of the time) and is developing his own personality. His favorite things right now are cars, footballs, and cowboys (which are actually cows... he calls them cowboys).


They say it's my birthday!


It was a beautiful day to do what little boys do best, explore nature!

My cousins stopped by...


... and brought gifts!


Then I got to enjoy a big piece of Mama's Chocolate Beet Cake!

2 comments:

zaf_fam_tx said...

I love his hair! What a big kid! I feel like he really does look so much older now! Poor Shelley with the stomach stuff. Yuck. I hope you all are feeling better soon!

emk said...

Hope you guys feel better SOON!! What a yucky month it's been for you! (PS-- I am not showing these pics to B lest he get jealous of Todd's luscious locks. But happy birthday to him! :-)

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