Clearing Webs

Video of the Ultimate Bike Set Up

The last few days I've been battling the stomach bug from hell. Sometime earlier this week (Tuesday night?) Ike threw up then seemed much happier. We put him to sleep on our bedroom floor. When I woke later that night throwing up I grabbed the large soup pan we'd given him. He bolted upright saying, "MOM! What?!!? What?!??" When he woke up more and realized I was throwing up in his pan he switched to, "Hey! That's mine! Give that back!!! Give that back!!!" Um, yeah. You take it back full of Mom's puke. So my throwing up didn't stop for over thirty hours. I couldn't keep down anything. I mean not a sip of Sprite and a Tylenol. I was a bit worried for a while cause the vomiting produced some longish, pretty uncomfortable contractions. Andy stayed home from work (a couple days? - I have no idea) and took care of me and the kids. Oh, that man's as awesome as they come. After a couple days I was able to keep down Gatorade and apple sauce. Yesterday I went downstairs and watched a movie. Man, I felt like I'd been in a car wreck. My muscles were so sore from throwing up! It's quite the workout. I am going to live, folks, which I wasn't even sure I wanted for a while there. Today I went for a short walk with Arlo. But I had no less than four pretty good contractions within three or four blocks of walking, one so strong I had to stop. That's not good. They stop if I sit or lay so right now I'm concentrating on getting re-hydrated and taking it easy. I mean, check out that ticker to the right; I'm not even 29 weeks yet. So, in the spirit of sitting on my bum I saw the boys off as they took off on a bike ride a few minutes ago. My heart swelled with contentment and overwhelmed gratitude at how good my life is. I'm in a busy, tiring stage of life right now but it's so precious and so short. Oh, I love my house full of testosterone! I love sitting and watching the boys all wrestle (yes, I love joining in, too). I love all the cars and trains everywhere in my house. It's such a joy being Mama to three boys. It'll be fun to see what we're given next. It'll be cool if we have a girl but I'm so going to embrace the joy of our situation if God gives us another cool little boy. What fun!