March comes in like a lion....

The beginning of March was definitely a handful for our household. It started with Anna sick with a stomach virus and then mommy and daddy caught it a few days later. First, there is nothing worse than seeing your baby sick. Sweet little Anna was so helpless and groggy and kept getting sick all day. She wouldn't eat and then would just fade in and out of sleep all day - usually on Daddy which he of course loved! Thankfully, her "bug" only lasted about 24 hours. We never even had to take her to the doctor. To date, she has only gone for her scheduled well visits and one random time when she was 2 weeks old for a clogged tear duct. We hope that she will keep the streak alive! Can you believe mommy and daddy have held off and handled things on our own?!

It was sad to watch Anna sick, but I think it would have been even more pathetic if you had seen me and Matt. Ours started one evening - fortunately after Anna went to sleep - and lasted through the night and then we recovered for a few days. I had our bed and bathroom and Matt had the couch and the other bathroom. Our darling daughter was wonderful and slept so soundly through all of it that first night. I don't know how we'll do it when we have more kids. We know this was the first of many long nights ahead of us and surely this was probably the easiest. We just love being parents!

This experience reminded me of something my friend Carri said when their house was sick with the flu this year. She too has a 7 month old and she said that she was trying to convince Josie that snuggling all day in bed watching movies is fun. Ha, ha! Yeah right. I quickly realized that my being sick means nothing to Anna. Recovery time for mommy has to be super quick these days, but that's okay; I wouldn't trade it for anything.