family sick day

my attempt at daily blogging fell by the wayside as we had a busy weekend with friends and family and then at about 2am on sunday morning, i lay awake in my bed for a few hours. i didn't feel so well. i thought maybe i'd just taken too many advil, trying to get rid of the headache that i'd had for the day. so when i threw up at 4am, i thought maybe that was all there would be. i'm sorry to say that it was not all there would be. "at least it's sunday and tim won't be going to work so that he can look after ben in the morning," i thought to myself. and then tim got sick in the morning. and there was no one left to look after ben. so ben kindly decided to take a 3 hour nap in the morning. he must have gotten the vibe. poor little guy. unfortunately, when ben woke up, it was apparent that the parental care was lacking. we called in back-up. my parents showed up around 3pm and took care of ben, washed dishes, made us chicken soup, and put ben to bed. phew. we were SO grateful. before my parents left, my mom checked on ben only to find the he'd thrown up in his crib and needed to be changed. and so began ben's sick day. he would wake up in the night and just give little moans. he had a very sad, low energy day. when he was awake, he sat on our laps and chewed his soother. ben was asleep longer than than he was awake today. finally, around 5:30pm we saw some smiles and a few jumps in the exersaucer. he had a happy bath and went off to bed. and i think we survived our first family sick day...