Sick, Sleepy, & Stressed

Needless to say it has been a very interesting weekend. To make it so you don't get bored with my ramblings, I will outline for you events of this weekend:

Saturday
- Katie and I got to bed around 11:30pm Friday
- 1:30am, Braxton starts to vomit
- 3am, Braxton finally goes back to sleep
- 4am, Braxton wakes up to vomit some more (we hadn't gone to bed since we were still cleaning things up from the first episodes and washing clothes and sheets)
- 5am, Braxton sleeps again
- 7am, Christian wakes up and wants to play
- 7:30am, Braxton wakes up and vomits some more
- Braxton vomits some more until around 9am
- Katie and I are exhausted. Katie naps with the boys while I monitor them
- For the rest of the day Braxton appears to be ok. In fact, we give him pears and chicken noodle soup Saturday night
- All day, I try to prepare for my talk in church the next day. Katie is supposed to talk with me, but one of us is going to stay home with the boys.
- Needless to say, we didn't get much done (by way of house chores)

Sunday
- 5:30am, I wake up to attend a training meeting at 6:30am
- 6:45am, Katie calls to tell me her eye has swollen again and has gotten worse (Braxton spooned her in the eye 5 weeks ago. She has a small cut that aparently has not completely healed yet)
- 6:50am, Katie sends me a text saying Braxton threw up again.
- 7am, I leave my meeting early to help Katie out. Braxton throws up several more times before he finally goes down for a nap.
- 8:40am, I head to church so I can give my talk.
- 10:20am, I come home to relieve Katie so she can get some rest
- For the rest of the day Braxton appears to do ok. Finally at 1pm, we give him some chicken noodle soup and canned pears. He keeps it down.
- 3:30pm, Katie and I went to the church for some interviews
- 6pm, Braxton seems to be doing much better. We give him some crackers, more Pedialite, pears, apple sauce, and a little macaroni (One of the hardest things as a parent of a small child is to see them suffer like this. We know Braxton is famished. All he wants is some food. We have had to keep him out of the kitchen when Christian is eating just so we don't have to disappoint him by saying no.)
- 8pm, Katie and I are watching the news and are told President Hinckley passed away not an hour ago (7pm).
- Katie and I call/text family to let them know. We were guessing not too many people were watching the news at 8pm on a Sunday.
- 10:30pm, I try to get caught up on dishes from the late week and weekend fiasco. I am exhausted and we decide to go to bed. Most of the dishes were done.

Needless to say, we did not get much done this weekend. As of this morning, Braxton appears to be doing well. He has already had pears and toast and is keeping it down.

If anybody else is having similar symptoms, the best thing to do is keep your child on a liquid diet for 10+ hours. Starve the bug. When you give them Pedialite (doctor recommended), only give them 1 tbsp every 10 minutes for however long you feel is necessary (or 1/2 tbsp every 5 minutes).

Since we had to tell the bishopric the day before church that Katie wasn't going to be speaking, a member of the bishopric spoke with me. For those of you are thinking Katie got out of speaking, think again (she wanted to speak, but just couldn't). She has been given a new assignment to speak: February 10.