part two...

for those of you that would rather not hear the gory details, you may skip this post.... for those that want more gore, for whatever reason, in the midst of it all, eric thought to take pictures of the whole ordeal.... i may write about it, but i just don't have what it takes to post the pictures, so if you are interested, talk to eric :)

so, you would think that since boden had the flu on tuesday, he would be done, right??? wrong. tuesday was just a precursor for what was to come. friday we had planned to go to a living nativity with papa and grammy. we were bustling around to make it on time. eric had put boden upstairs for an auxiliary nap since we would be out late and he had seemed inconsolable and wouldn't eat. i went upstairs to get him because he just didn't seem to be calming down after a while. on the way down the stairs, boden burped and i thought, hmmm maybe he has a bit of an upset stomach. oh did he ever! just as soon as we had gotten to the bottom of the stairs and i had shut the door-splat, splat, splat!!! all over the floor, fridge, cabinets, the door, mommy ( i went thru 3 outfits, with the last one staying on till we finally put him to bed), and halfway down the hall - chunks of hot dog, carrots and other unrecognizable matter. for the next four hours boden proceeded to throw up every 10-20 minutes. after about the first 3 times it was pretty much saliva type stuff and dry heaves. very pitiful. i just sat with him on the rocking chair downstairs and he would awake from his sleep and start heaving. he actually was a little cute at times - we finally got smart and got a container to catch the stuff and he was getting quite good at it. he would start heaving and we would bring the container up to him and he would grab the sides of it and push his sweet little head as far as he could into it. when he hadn't thrown up for about an hour we all went to bed. woke up a couple times, but didn't throw up any more. at one point we brought him downstairs in the middle of the night and he drank about half a carton of pedalite.

saturday he was quite a bit better and we all tried to recuperate thinking we were on the upswing. this morning we all got up and were getting ready for church. it was the children's christmas program at church and we had nursery. eric was feeding boden breakfast and i was about to shower when splat! what!?!? he seemed fine and after eric wiped him up, he continued eating. (btw, at this point eric was not feeling super.) we were like, hmmm maybe that was a fluke of the old days when he spit up. he didn't appear to have a fever and since we had nursery and didn't know who we could call that didn't have kids in the christmas program, decided to tentatively keep getting ready and see how things progressed. well, not but 5 mins later, splat again! hardly five more mins and eric is very sick. i called the nursery supervisor and explained our plight. i felt so bad calling with just about an hour before we were supposed to be there (hmmm replay of five days before....). well, it proved to be a very good move. eric has been repeatedly sick all day and boden has not been much better with things changing direction of departure. with my boys bedded down for a nap, i got to shovel the driveway so that i could get out and get my boys some electrolytes at the store. this evening we had to cancel once again with papa and grammy. grammy has a main part in the christmas program at their church tonight. we are very disappointed to miss it. hopefully we will be better by tomorrow, though at points the last couple days i have been feeling sick to my stomach.... sympathy pains i hope....