Kids and Puke

I mentioned yesterday that I've had a horrible cold over the last 10 days. Benay and Giovanni actually had it first. It's a bad one.

The last couple of weeks the kids have been on their winter break from school. Bronwyn has even had a winter break from her job. It's been very cold and so we've stayed indoors a lot and stayed close to the floor heaters.

As you might expect with a big family, who have been staying inside because of the cold, when someone gets sick it is easy to spread it around. Almost everyone in our house has had some version of this cold/flu.

Today it was Garrett's turn. He woke up crying. He had a fever and felt horrible. He has literally been in the bed all day. He feels a little bit better but he was asleep tonight by 6:20.

This afternoon Benay, Bronwyn and I took Anderson, Carys and Giovanni to the mall for a celebration of Sponge Bob's birthday in Brasil (we told you we were going to stay busy on our winter break with only fun stuff). On the way home we had to make a stop to see our friends who own a hardware store in our neighborhood.

Benay and I went into the store and left the kids in the car. As I left the car Anderson started complaining about not feeling well. By the time we got back in the car he was crying like crazy. He cried the whole way home.

About 5 minutes after he got home he yakked on the floor in his room. As most 5 year olds do after throwing up, he felt better almost immediately. He asked for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. We explained why that wasn't a good idea.

He and Garrett (they share a room) then said they wanted to watch a movie since they were both in quarantine. We have a portable DVD player that we take on long road trips and so I began to hook that up for them to watch the movie while they stayed in their beds.

I told them to pick a movie that they both wanted to watch. Before those words were barely out of my mouth Anderson popped out of bed, looked at Garrett and said, "I get to pick. I'm more sick than you! I puked and you didn't." It was actually a pride filled statement. Like his puking was a bigger accomplishment than some measly old fever.

Garrett agreed that Anderson could choose. Anderson asked for one of the Rocky movies. Garrett objected. He said he wanted something else. Anderson had no problem with that. He thought for a minute and said, "Okay.....Blues Clues." Garrett rolled his eyes, covered his head up with a pillow and started to laugh.

Even in puke filled, fever filled times our kids keep us smiling.

P.S. In case you are wondering, Anderson eventually chose A Knight's Tale with Heath Ledger. Five minutes after I started the movie they were both asleep.