Yuk!

Ryan and Coranelle out to lunch while I was sick. Yup, Super dad!


Whew! I feel like the last few weeks have just been rough... like we cannot really catch a break. Last week, we discovered that Coranelle really likes Edamame beans. We certainly overfed her, but she is so picky and eats so little that we just let her eat until she was done. Apparently, her body didn't process the soybeans super well, or so we thought. The next morning, she seemed to have thrown up in her crib a little and I proceeded to wash all her sheets, stuffed animals, PJ's, etc. I gave her a bath and she seemed totally fine, so I assumed she had just eaten too much. Later that day, I left her at the Rec center child care, only to be called 10 minutes into my workout. Coranelle had diarrhea and had had a huge blowout. Yikes. They didn't want to pick her up because she was covered, so she was totally upset, and I was totally embarrassed. They had to call in the cleaning crew and I couldn't stop apologizing. Of course, once I picked her up, I was covered, so we had to come home and do more laundry and take showers.

Thursday night, I came down with some nasty stomach flu and have never felt sicker in my life. Truly. I was in the bathroom every 30 minutes from 11pm- morning. I was so exhausted from dry heaving and so nauseous that Ryan had to stay home from work Fri. I could hardly move, let alone eat and there was no way I was going to be able to take care of Coranelle. Meanwhile, Ryan took Coranelle to a lunch with co-workers Friday only to bring her home screaming with another huge blow-out. So, there I am, barely able to stand up, holding a gross, screaming child while Ryan got a bath going. Ryan was fantastic. Super dad really. He took perfect care of both of us, brought me flowers, bought soup and sprite and made sure I was drinking.

My test was on Saturday and really difficult to re-schedule. I fortunately slept Friday night and pulled myself together enough to sit through the 3 hour, 80 page test. I think I passed too, which is great. I came home to Ryan not feeling well either and we both just tried to survive the day. We were so anxious to put Coranelle down for her nap so we could rest. We made it through and we seemed to get better really quickly, which I am so thankful for! Unfortunately, I didn't get to fully recover, because now I am back to regular pregnancy nausea. But, I can certainly handle that a lot better than whatever we had this weekend. Hopefully, we are done with that for a long time! Thanks to everyone for their kind words, prayers, and dropping off delicious food! Hopefully, we can get back to normal this week and Coranelle and I can have some fun outings and I can relax and get some things done, instead of studying during naps.

Yesterday, we had Coranelle's child dedication at our church, and below are a few pictures.
Lots of kiddos being dedicated. Coranelle was upset that she had to be held. There were stairs behind us that she'd rather play on.
Coranelle being good and fully entertained with her Auntie Claire's coke bottle during the dedication. She is really hard to take pictures of now because she never sits still, so this is the best we have.