Isaiah discovers Nutella in the hotel breakfast room.
We're just a half mile from the library....a great afternoon errand.
The high altitude was really wearing on me so even though we wanted to keep adventuring we decided to take an afternoon off and go to the movies. (as close to an afternoon nap as I was going to get)
A brand new park near daddy's job site.
Sheer happiness!
This cracked me up when I caught Levi helping Isaiah into his pjs.
No, not a skiing accident. I missed the curb in the hotel parking lot and badly sprained my ankle. 6 weeks in this brace, but I'm allowed to do whatever I want, as pain allows.
This just wasn't our week. High altitude in conjunction with another stomach virus (he has just recovered from a stomach bug 10 days prior) led to dehydration. My poor guy had to get an IV and twice as much fluids as they first thought. His bloodwork came back and a 15 is considered dehydrated and Isaiah was at a 12.....for whatever it was they were measuring.
He got a few sips of gatorade to stay down and fell sound asleep. The night before he barely slept because he was throwing up every single hour!
Big brother and sister were very mellow and watched cartoons all afternoon....a sign that they were coming down with the bug.
We made him carry a bowl around so much that he just began walking around the hotel room like this...poor baby!
He began perking up just in time to enjoy new toys.
Sister's turn. I don't know if she was as severely dehydrated as Isaiah, but she was far, far from her spunky self and once those fluids got into her system she was out like a light. We got home from the hospital at 5:00 in the evening and she went straight to bed and didn't get up until late morning.
Snap circuits, a great convalescence activity, quiet but engaging.
She also finished up her latch hook during our long days at the hotel....and we moved hotel rooms to try to distance ourselves form the germs.
You'd think with Mama's sprained ankle, two kids needing IV fluids, and all five of us fighting a stomach bug that would be the end of the story, but no, our starter in the van went out too!!!! Aaron already had a rental car though so we just crammed them all in the back for a couple days.
Finally, SNOW! We bought snow suits and boots in preparation for our big trip north, but hadn't had use for them. This would be just a dusting, but we would eventually pull out the suits.
