Memorial Day weekend

We were all set and ready to go visit Grandma this weekend but woke up the morning of our scheduled trek to find Princess in the midst of being ill. She spent half the day sleeping and couldn't keep anything down at all. Today she's doing better but still not keeping anything but water down. Tag got it this morning but is in a stubborn denial that he's sick despite repeatedly losing his stomach and having a fever of 104°. Ibuprofen is helping with the fever but he keeps insisting that he wants to eat chips and salsa and he doesn't need to carry his bucket around with him. We tried letting him leave the bucket two feet away from him and... well, it wasn't pretty. I can't believe this stubborn illusion he's putting himself under. Despite his own personal, abundantly clear evidence that he's ill.

When I was a kid I'd milk it for all it was worth. Sleeping on the couch, popsicles, soda, tv all day long. Man recalls that when he was young that being sick at his house had no special benefits. You either went to school anyway, or you got to stay home exclusively in bed and swallow home remedies. We're taking a middling approach, having them stay in bed except for when we have attempts at liquids. They are also allowed to get up after a longish nap and catch some tv but not all day long. When they're this young it's hard to keep them down for long even in this state.

Thankfully, Pebbles hasn't gotten it yet. She's the one who doesn't know how to make it to the bucket yet. Tomorrow we also get to do Sharing Time for our class but Man is going to go do it by himself. Some of you may recall when I got to do it a couple of months ago with a crying baby and a Tag who refused to go to class (I couldn't take him out to the car since I had a class to teach) and I hadn't prepared a single thing for it. It was a fiasco. This time I'm keeping the two sickies and the (knock on wood) not-sicky home while he goes and has his fun.

I guess that's what I get for putting them in child care this week. Oh, well. It isn't killing them. Hopefully it's making them stronger.