Andreae Adventures: Puke...

Saturday was a busy day for us. Natalie had swimming at 9:15a and had a blast, but it sure wears a girl out because as soon as we got home she wants to take a nap. She even took a good afternoon nap after eating a good lunch. Bobby had decided to rent a trencher because he was going to trench our yard for the sprinkler system HE wants to put in (I would be fine with just getting a moving $50 sprinklers...even a few if needed). After one pass with the machine and $100 later, he decides he is not going to do it himself, but instead hire someone. He has called a couple people, but we haven't heard back so who knows when it will get done. Plus, we were told our yard would be fixed in September, but now we're hearing October...it will be a year ago that the first guy planted grass (and did a crappy job). It will be nice when we actually have a decent looking yard!

While Bobby was messing around with the trencher, I took the girls to my work picnic. We had fun and were there for over an hour. We ate and played on the playground. As soon as Natalie saw the playground, she no longer wanted to sit in the stroller. So, I got sleepy Aubrey into the Moby wrap with I think EVERYONE staring at how I was doing it, and off to the playground we went.

It is quite difficult chasing a toddler around even with the Moby wrap on because I had to climb, go down slides, and duck under things. Aubrey slept through all of it and had no idea how much fun she was actually having...haha! Natalie made friends with a much older boy who was 7. She absolutely loved this kid and he played with her great! From talking with him, he has younger siblings and you could tell that he's probably a great big brother. He was also telling me he plays with his 2 year old brother, but that he doesn't laugh as much as Natalie. She was cracking up every time she saw this boy...she adored him! It is so cute watching her interact with other kids.

After playing, we headed back to the picnic and left shortly after sharing a sno-cone. Natalie also at an entire hot dog as her "snack" since she had already eaten lunch and cotton candy. This leads me to the title of this blog...puke!

Natalie went to bed great and didn't even wake up after an hour of being in bed like she has been doing lately. However, come 2:30am (cue music...dun dun dun), I awoke to gagging/coughing/crying noise from Natalie's room. Once I got in there, the smell hit me and I knew what had happened (if you have a queasy stomach you may want to skip this part)...puke! She had thrown up chunks of her dinner and the poor girl was just sitting there crying because it was all over her and her bed, luckily not on the floor this time!

Before I got her in the bathtub, I woke up Bobby because this was definitely not going to be a one-man task. Bobby chose to give Natalie a bath instead of cleaning her bed. I did a load of laundry and helped Bobby get Natalie ready for bed again. Little did we know that she was about to puke all over Bobby and her clean PJs...again chunks! I was quite impressed with how Bobby handled being thrown up on. But I guess he has always done the best with cleaning up cat/dog messes. Cleaned her up again...Bobby rocked her and I got a trash can ready which we needed! I don't remember at this point if she puked on me just once or if it was twice, but I think in total she had 4 or 5 PJs on throughout the night, she got me and Bobby, and just felt miserable. I felt so bad for her!

While Bobby rocked her and they slept in the recliner, Aubrey woke up after sleeping for almost 6 hours...yay! Once I was done with Aubrey, I relieved Bobby and quickly after the transfer of sleepy Natalie is when I remember for sure I got puked on, but it wasn't bad at all...no chunks! After awhile of trying to sleep in the recliner, neither Natalie nor I were comfortable, so I made us a bed on the floor with lots of protection in case she got sick again. She fell asleep good and I fell asleep only due to exhaustion because the floor was so hard even with all the blankets I had down. I'm not sure how much time went by, but I finally got Natalie in bed without anymore episodes and she slept good until 10a and took a great nap today too.

I'm pretty sure this was all caused by sugar. Note to self: do not give Natalie sugar. Last time this happened she had ice cream before bed, so I would bet money that sugar is the culprit. I guess I won't be giving her cotton candy anytime soon. She feels much better now.

Before our adventurous Saturday night/Sunday morning, Bobby had the girls in the evening so I could go to a photography class. I think the best part of the class was that it was super small, so the photographer putting it on was able to spend a little bit of one-on-one time with us. Her kids (all 5) were our subjects and they are definitely trained well for posing. It was also at a great park I have never been too, but hope to return to camp and take lots of pictures! Here are some of my favorite pictures from last night:

On my drive home...beautiful sunset

Today (Sunday) because of Natalie's puking episode during the night, we didn't make it to church because we were all exhausted. I spent a lot of the day folding the massive amount of clean laundry I had piled on the couch and Bobby was mowing our backyard (aka 'the jungle'). Then, his friend came over to watch some football and I got my 20 minute run in...haven't run that long in forever. I'm glad our Sunday (during the day) wasn't as eventful as our early morning. I really should be taking advantage of the girls sleeping right now, but wanted to get this blog in before the end of the night.

The girls sported their Cowboys attire, but they weren't good luck charms today.