When the girls learned that this week marked the beginning of Spring, they informed me that we needed to have a party. Never one to squash the girls’ willingness to celebrate, I went to the local Dollar Store and grabbed some spring-y stuff for them. When they got home from school on Thursday, we hung a banner, blew up balloons, and set the table with our “fancy” plastic cups and paper plates they decorated with stickers.
We painted some spring pictures (you can see Danny really got into that one):
While we were still painting, Becky said she was tired and went upstairs to lie down. When I went to check on her, she was sound asleep:
I took her to the doctor’s that tonight, suspecting something was up since she was feverish and had been battling a cold for the last three weeks, and it turned out the poor girl had pneumonia. A few doses of antibiotics later, and you’d never know anything had been wrong. She’s back to her normal enthusiastic self.
However, when we got home from Costco tonight, Susie was registering a high fever and promptly fell asleep on the family room couch:
Given that Susie is almost exactly following in her sister’s symptomatic footsteps, I have a feeling we’ll be spending our Saturday morning at the doctor. I can’t wait until this Spring’s high temperatures happen outside my house, rather than in my kids’ bodies!
Poor kiddos. Hope the boys don’t get sick. Thank God for antibiotics!
The girls wanting to celebrate every holiday reminds me of your Grandmother’s clock on the corkboard in her kitchen. Every holiday she decorated the hands of the clock with holiday symbols How wonderful to celebrate each day as a gift !