The Woods

Friday morning woke up to hearing Cody say, "What are you doing Decker?  Are you throwing up on me?  This was at 5:00 a.m.  Decker sleeps on the top bunk and Cody had made his way off his bed to the floor.  Decker had just bent over the top bunk and threw up all over Cody.  I got up and put Cody in the shower and changed the sheets on their beds.  Got Decker a bucket.  I didn't want to take Cody to school, because that meant getting Kaylie up and taking sick Decker for a car ride. I asked Cody if he wanted to go to school today, hoping he would want to stay home.  He said he wanted to go because he didn't want to miss recess.  dang... at about 5 minutes to 9:00 I got the idea to ask for help, so I texted Candice Parker and Rachna. 
Scott Parker could swing by and get Cody and then Danielle Wheeler could pick him up at the end of the day.  A few minutes before Danielle was to drop Cody off at home, I was hurriedly cleaning up the living room,  Kaylie was in the kitchen.  As I was putting something away in the back room, I heard a cry and thought maybe Kaylie got her finger stuck in a drawer or bonked her head on the table....WORSE....she had tumbled down the stairs....7 steps....She was down on the landing bawling.  Awful mom for not putting up the gate and being prepared for something like this.  Danielle came in the midst of it.  and gave me some good advice...check the dilation of her eyes to see if they match when a light is shined in them. 

I called Pediatrix and they couldn't get her in until 3:30...it was now 12:45.  I nursed her with an ice pack between her face and me.  She fell asleep.  Then let her sleep in her crib for another hour or so. 
So we got all piled into the car to go to the Dr.  Decker with his bucket, Kaylie with her bruised forehead and Cody happy to go along for the ride.  The Dr that checked her out said she looked fine.  And reassured me that babies are very resilient and proceeded to tell me about her experiences in Hawaii. She worked on a military base and saw 3 cases of children falling out of windows because the screens weren't secured.  One of them was a 2nd story window and the babysitter didn't even notice until a passerby walking her dog knocked on her door with the baby in her arms. 
While we were at the Drs. office I thought since we were there and Kaylie needed her booster flu shot, could she get that right now?  Nurse came back in and Decker proceeded to put his hands over his ears.  He is very sensitive and doesn't like to hear Kaylie cry, or see the shots. 
Well as soon as the nurse gave her the shot and left the room, Decker threw up in his bucket.  Good thing we brought it.  There was a bathroom across the hallway, so he went and emptied it into the toilet and I rinsed it out.  Then we went on our way back home.
Mike and I had decided to have a little staycation the night before.  We reserved a hotel up in Lynnwood with our hotel points.  There was an Old Spaghetti Factory in the hotel's parking lot.  Everyone fell asleep in the 25 minute ride up to the hotel.  We put our name on the list at the restaurant and then proceeded to check ourselves in at the hotel....unbeknownst to the boys who still didn't know what we were doing.  We were seated in the trolley...best seat in the house...how lucky was that?!   You could tell Decker wasn't feeling the best at the Spaghetti Factory. as he was laying on dad's lap or on the bench.

  Decker ordered Alfredo which he loves, but he wasn't feeling very hungry...again bucket was by his side just in case.  We had a great dinner, but I was anxious that Decker might get sick and throw up again.  So we quickly ate and then made it back to the hotel.  When we walked in,  I showed the boys the POOL.  They then realized what we were doing...they were so excited.  So we ran up to our room and got our suits on.  Even Kaylie has a swimming suit.  ;) 

We sat in the sauna and the boys alternated back and forth from the pool to the hot tub. Kaylie had a nice little booty, since we couldn't find any swimming diapers.

After about an hour we went back up to the room for a cleansing bath.
We cooked up some popcorn in the microwave and watched some Harry Potter on the TV and some other high school musical type show.  

We had also brought  orange swirl vanilla ice cream and root beer to make rootbeer floats  which we did in the morning while watching the Good Dinosaur on my ipad.  We had breakfast downstairs in the lobby where pancakes were made at the push of a button.  I had my favorite cinnamon roll and sausage gravy over eggs, which Kaylie liked too.  We went swimming again

and enjoyed our melted ice cream milk shakes with a touch of rootbeer and Decker ate his alfredo leftovers.    So far no throw up on our staycation.  Yay!!  We checked out at noon and went home.  Cody had a birthday party to attend at Pump it UP in Kirkland and Decker hung out with dad .

 It was such a memorable weekend with the good and the bad.