Last night, we (young men/young women... Tom stayed home with the sick kids) sledding here. (Thanks to the Stocks who took this picture when they were here in November.) It was too dark last night to see pretty much anything. It was pretty darn fun. Four of us leaders on a sled could really haul. And we got pretty darn close to hitting a tree a few times. The 14-year-old boys had an activity a few weeks ago where they made a "Skouch." It's a couch-like chair with skis they built on. And flashlight headlights. So they were excited to try it out on this big hill (the hill continues for quite awhile around that corner to the right in the picture). It actually did pretty well. It ran pretty straight. But it did have a bad habit of running straight into the trees and no amount of flashing the flashlights could stop it. Crazy boys. Wish we had pictures... but again, it was too dark to see anything (no lights here). Then we all enjoyed brownies and hot chocolate in the dark. I don't think I've ever been sledding down such a big hill in my life. It was pretty fun. And hiking back up was quite a workout...
In plague news: Celia is pretty much better except for the cough but still comes upstairs, gets a DVD off the shelf, puts it in, and looks at me with sad eyes and says: "I'm sick. Means I can watch a movie. I don't feel very well." Sabrina is still going downhill. Yesterday was miserable. She just cried and coughed. She wouldn't eat or sleep. I took her back into the doctor in the late afternoon. Sabrina was just leaning on my shoulder moaning until the doctor came in. Then she perked up immediately and was all smiles with the doctor. She's such a smiley baby. The doctor said she's going to keep getting worse before she gets better. She said the peak of the virus should be either today or tomorrow. I had to pump last night before going sledding and Tom fed her with a syringe and then a bottle to get some food into her because she's refused to nurse all day for more than one minute at a time. Everytime she tries to sleep, she wakes up hacking. Poor kid. I just wish it was Friday. Our days are really LONG when Sabrina doesn't eat or sleep. She still does pretty well at night (considering). She woke up about 4 times last night.
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So... you're saying your second child is already an actress. She obviously fooled the doctor... How high do you think her temperature needs to be before they start disbelieving her sweet smiles?
Oh Marel. I am so so sorry. I wish I could help her. Poor poor baby. My doctor told me once that viruses like this are just good exercise for the immune system. Um...thanks. Not. But I guess Sabrina's is getting a good workout! Take care!
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