Crazy week

March 31-April5, 2008
Well, I thought Isaac was better on Monday because he woke up acting much more energetic and was in a good mood. But then later on in the afternoon his tummy started hurting him again and he hurled all over the bathroom floor downstairs. He seemed to feel better after that, but I still just don’t know what’s up with this crazy virus that they have. Levi had diarrhea all day and then at night when I brushed his teeth, I accidently triggered his gag reflex and he hurled all over the bathroom floor upstairs (I have a lot of laundry to attack now). Then to make things more miserable, half of the vomit ended up on Isaac and when Isaac tried to step down off of the tooth brushing stool, he slipped on the vomit and landed hard on the floor. James was out of town, so it was just me and all of the drama and it was all I could do to laugh not to cry. Isaac then decided that his foot was broken—just like the Curious George story and he wanted me to put a cast on it. So I wrapped a rag around his foot and told him it was a cast and luckily that seemed to satisfy him. Then both boys zonked out hard. I need to go zonk out too.
So today (Tuesday) is the first day in 5 days that I haven’t had to deal with vomit or diarrhea. I really hope that we’re turning the corner on this wacky virus that we’ve all been suffering from. Isaac woke up desperate to make chocolate chip cookies for breakfast. I took that as a sign that he was feeling better, but I made him settle for rice crispies.
The Helgueras (our neighbors) are going to rent our house for the next year, so that’s a huge relief because the thought of showing the house with our stuff in it would be a disaster. Our Ikea second hand furniture and kids stuff everywhere doesn’t exactly look classy. I just feel like it’s a huge blessing that they want to rent the house. Now we’ll just have to start praying for a miracle to happen next year so that we can rent it or sell it. Right now we have to focus our efforts on getting the basic stuff fixed up and sorting out all of our junk. Easier said that done right?
Well, I thought that the vomit days were over, but Isaac woke up screaming and vomiting at 10:30 on Wednesday night and it was pretty messy. Poor kid. I had to completely change all of the bedding, try to scrub stuff out of the carpet, bathe him, re-pajamify him, and read a bunch more stories and snuggle him to sleep. I really hope that this is the last of it. I’m taking Levi in for his 18 month check up tomorrow so I’ll see if I can squeeze in an appointment for Isaac to see what’s up.
I had a lady from Guatemala help me out with the kids on Wednesday and I loved listening to Isaac speak in Spanish with her. Very cute. When he knows that someone doesn’t speak English, he goes whole hog into Spanish mode.
Levi is obsessed with the computer and constantly wants to watch family videos on Picassa.
Well, by the time we made it to the pediatrician on Thursday, both boys were definitely over the stomach flu, but Levi still had some rashes and chaffed skin at the joints so I asked the doctor about that. She said that Levi has mild excema which means that his skin is super sensitive and she prescribed a steroid ointment cream for him. I still need to pick it up from the pharmacy, but hopefully it will help him to feel better.
We saw a snake swimming in the pond at the “jungle” audobon society park that we go to and when I pointed it out to Isaac, he said, “no mom, that’s not a snake, that’s an eel!”
I left both of the boys with Eloisa (our Norwegian neighbor’s nanny) on Tuesday morning and when I picked the boys up, Eloisa said that she didn’t realize that Isaac spoke Spanish so well. I asked her what happened and she stold me that she had to take away a toy from Levi because he was putting the battery in his mouth, and when she took it away from Levi, Isaac came up to her and said, “Asi no se hace Eloisa—no te portes mal con los niños chiquitos!” She got a good laugh out of that.
Levi’s hair is getting pretty long and he’s been mistaken for a girl a couple of times this week. I still can’t bring myself to cut it though—the golden curls in the back are just too cute.
This week Isaac seemed to have the realization that he was bilingual. He said, “mom, I can speak Spanish!” then I taught him how to say “hablo español!” He’s been excited about translating the words to English songs lately. We were listening to a song that started out “hello neighbors” and Isaac said, “mom sing it in Spanish” and then he proceeded to sing himself “hola vecinos!” Very cute.
Natasha stayed with us Friday night because she was flying to Idaho on Saturday and she offered to babysit for us. It was so nice to have a night out. We went to the Kasra Persian grill and then hung out at Barnes and Nobles and drank hot chocolate while we looked at reviews of MBA programs. Persian food is amazing.
Isaac’s favorite story of the week was, “We went to the Helguera’s house and Levi gobbled up the brownie and said, “Ahh!”