There were signs that we were in the clear. The kids have been taking full bottles for a few days. No one was crying all day long. Things were running smoothly. The scheduled napping was starting to go well. Then someone sneezed and I looked around the room…three runny noses. Son of a b—-, we have our third bug in 4 weeks.

Four weeks ago, Meredith woke up in the night crying and feeling very warm. Her temp was 105 and change. That got our attention in the middle of the night, to say the least. An extra aggressive doze of Tylenol and a bath got it dropped under 102 in an hour or so. Within 36 hours the others were starting to show signs. We had the quints on what I’ve been calling a Tylenol/Motrin drip and they still got temps around 102. All six of the kids had a real bad hacky, wet cough. After two full weeks, it had finally run its course through all of the kids.

Two weeks ago, around 6:30 in the morning, Meredith woke up a bit early. She had a cup of juice and was watching cartoons on the couch and wearing her princess dress when she just threw up. No warning; she just vomited in the couch. A minute later, she did it again on the kitchen floor where it splattered everywhere. Angela got her cleaned up and took her downstairs in an effort to isolate her from the other kids. Shortly thereafter, we started bottles at 7:00 am. Within seconds of finishing their bottles, Alex and Brook threw up their entire bottles. We thought it might be isolated in that they throw up a bottle from time to time if they don’t burp well. Turns out that it wasn’t isolated. The puking just continued all day long. I think I did 12 loads of laundry that day and Angela was thrown up on at least 10 different times by Meredith alone. Totally disgusting. That Wednesday will always be known as “Puke Day.” We all had it and it took a week to cycle through the house and a hand full of our volunteers. A big “Thank You” to my manager Jim for how he handled things with me the past two weeks. He even came to the house to meet the family. He had too; I was driving. Very cool guy!!!

That brings us yesterday and our third bug in 4 weeks. Everyone but dad has a snotty, runny nose right now. Mom was in bed before nine tonight with a heavy dose of NyQuil, Kleexex stuffed in her nose, looking totally pitiful. I hope that the kids sleep tonight so that she can get some rest. She needs it so much.

We’ve had some other major changes and developments recently. We got our new table for the kids. I put it together over the past weekend and took this short video of the kids in it for the first time.

You can see all of our videos by clicking here. I fed the kids cereal for the first time this week too. They did pretty well, and I guess we’ll see how it goes. The table was great. I was talking with my brother the other night and he said that it will be one hell of a buffet table soon. He’s right, it will. They really like sitting in it and playing. Meredith has really enjoyed it too.

Now sooner than later, spring is gonna come and we can get the heck out of this house. Cabin Fever is in full effect, especially for Mama. Spring can’t come soon enough. Maybe we’ll have a cool big ass van to take a ride around town soon…

Until next time…

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