What a New Year!

So far 2009 has been FAR less than exciting. New years eve, just moments (literally like 60 seconds) before Rebecca & Todd arrived for dinner, Eli threw up all over the kitchen floor. This began days & days of sickness that i am so ready to be over at this point! Eli went on to eat dinner & kept it down, slept great that night & was fine all day new years day. However, New years day, Jackson woke up with fever & kept it for 2 days. New Years night, Eli randomly threw up again just at dinner time (before eating really)! And then slept great all night, woke up FRiday, ate breakfast, then 45 minutes later threw up again. At that point, we were wondering what was going on. He was eating, sometimes keeping it down for a whole day & then randomly having vomiting spells. But so far we are 48 hours with no vomiting from Eli. However, after Jackson's 2 days of fever, one day of lethargy, he vomited at bedtime last night, then slept great, & has kept all food down today. WHAT IS GOING ON? There is no pattern here & it seems to me that in the previous years of tummy bugs, that they knock you off your feet for about 24 hours & then you are fine. So what do my kids have? Today, Eli has eaten everything in sight (literally sneaking food out of the fridge) but Jackson is still reserved about eating, only taking a few bites before being done. I tried Noodle Soup for lunch hoping that he would at least get some strength back since he has been laying all over the house still. And all this sickness & being couped up together is making me feel sick! I don't know if i have just sat around too long, or if i am getting something, but i slept terrible last night, with bouts of nausea, but never got sick (praise God for that!). But i just feel run down & worn out myself, when i haven't done a thing (except lots of puky laundry!) So i am hoping with the start of a new work week tomorrow, everyone will get back into the swing of things.

Here are the boys "drinking" their noodle soup with a straw! They thought this was funny!