TGIF

The week is finally over! I did not think I was going to survive this week. Aaron had to go to California for work this week. He left Sunday after dinner and got home late late last night. So that meant 5 bedtimes by myself and 4 full days with both girls. What made things worse was that Izzie got sick. Something always happens when Aaron goes out of town. Natalie's ear infections used to always start right after he left. And if it was not her ears then it would be very bad weather or some other issue that always prevented us from getting a good night sleep and made everyone very cranky.

So this time it was Izzie's turn. She has been fighting an ear infection for the past 3 weeks and she just finished her antibiotics so earlier this week I thought she would be fine. Well Tuesday she had a fever, nothing too bad but the doctor had me bring her in since she was on antibiotics to make sure nothing else was going on. He said that it was just a cold. Wednesday her fever was very high and she was very cranky and looked really sick. I called the doctor again but they told me to bring her in on Thursday. She had a fever all afternoon and it finally went away after she went to bed. Thursday she woke up fine and never got a fever again. I took her to the doctor (again) and they said that it was a cold with a sore throat which was causing her to throw up when eating solids. But at least her fever was gone and she was doing better on Thursday. The week seemed to drag forever. Good thing that I had arranged for Natalie to go to school on Wednesday so that I could spend time with Izzie.

Aaron came home last night and the girls were very excited that he was back. Izzie of course had no idea what was going on but Natalie was very upset. She cried on Sunday when Aaron was leaving and every morning she would ask me if Aaron was home. Same thing in the afternoon. I felt so bad because she did not understand when I would tell her that he was coming home in a couple of days. She did talked to him on the phone a couple of times and even though he does not really realize it one day she was actually telling him all about her day. She was walking around with the speaker phone telling him about things she did at school and about home and Izzie being sick. She even made him read her books over the phone. I had to help him out since of course she picked books that he had not read in a while so he did not have the words memorized. But she really liked that he read her books.

Aaron had the day off and he spent the day with the girls and giving me a break from them which was nice. He is currently putting Natalie to bed and she even asked for him to read him books tonight, which I am glad because I know he missed her and I am glad that she is showing him that she missed him too.

Here is a picture I just took of the girls. We are trying to get Izzie's hair to curl. Sometimes her hair goes crazy and it curls at the ends.
Natalie is showing off her PJ's with feet. Last year she would not try them on and for some reason she loves them now. I think it's because Izzie has some like that.