dear flu

it's the beginning of summer break!

if you are going to run through our family

please do it now,

before our Wisconsin trip,

and definitely before our trip,

to California.

poor Aiden has had the wrath of you,

(first time ever),

for the past two nights.

which means,

so have I.

and now of course,

he's feeling better at 10:00am,

even though he was still throwing up

at 5:00am. I've had very little sleep

for two nights straight, and he's

decided to take the form of the energizer bunny,

when all I want to do is

take the form of the couch.

on a positive note,

we've had some good practice with

the following vocabulary:

flu, sick, belly, bucket, puke, throwing up, all better;

(which we've talked about this morning because he

wanted NOTHING to do with his CIs while he was sick, except

for the first night as I read to him at 12:30 am)

and which he used, as he handed me his cup of pedialyte,

in exchange for chocolate milk,

"mommy belly all better."

note to self:

next time you're at the drugstore with your daughter,

and she asks if you need a flu shot in the summer,

don't jinx yourself (and the whole family) by saying,

"no, you usually don't get the flu in the summer."

which of course, that same night, it all started.