Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Manhattan Trip

Well we finally experienced our "first" of having a sick kid away from home.  We went to visit Josh & Jessa in Manhattan for the weekend.  The boys had a great time playing with their cousins and then we went out for dinner.  This is when we should have known something was wrong with Avery, because wouldn't eat...which hardly ever happens.  We chalked it up to not having an adequate nap that day.  So we went back to J&J's, put the boys to sleep, and enjoyed our evening with J&J.  Then all the fun started: at about 2 am I woke up to Avery with a fever, coughing and gagging, and ultimately throwing up x3 times.  After an hour of caring for him and waking the whole family, we decided to hit the road home so as to not expose J&J and baby Jack to his illness anymore then we already had.  We stopped off at Wal-Mart, loaded up on paper towels, loads of caffeine & cleaning supplies for our trip home.  We had a few more messes to clean up on the way home, but all in all it went fairly well.  We rolled into our drive at 6 am before the sun was out, put the boys to bed and hit the sack until late morning.  So far no one else has gotten sick and Avery got better just as quickly as he got sick.  I hope