Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired

Last night at was Emerie's baby shower at Lisa's house. Thank you soooo much Lisa for hosting it. I had such a good time. I really like getting presents (especially for baby). Alanna was tickled pink that Ethan, Grace and Jachin had thought of her and bought her a little gift as well. Alanna was so well behaved at one point I actually forgot that she was there. It's true, some of the other ladies had to ask me if I was intending on feeding Alanna. In my defense I have been feeling sick this week and am not completely myself. I'll talk more about this in a second. Back to what I was saying though, we didn't here a peep from Alanna the whole night except for when she caught her hair in a tent zipper and Shawn came and asked me if we should cut her hair or not. Luckily her hair did come out of the zipper quite easily. Jonny and I are going to the wedding as well. I'm excited to see Riki get married. She will be the fourth person (to my knowledge) who has gotten married from our group of friends from high school. Also I always love a chance to show off my fabulous family and my fabulous life to old friends from Melfort. They are always soooo surprised to find out that I am a Christian now.

Okay, back to me being a bad parent. Yesterday I woke up not feeling very well and Emerie had, had not such a good night of sleep. She was so cranky during the night that I actually moved Alanna down to the couch so that she would not wake up from the sounds of her sister. I am now babysitting during the day once in a while and yesterday was once in those whiles and in all the commotion of the morning I completely forgot to make Alanna a lunch for school. I ended up having to call Jonny's mom to make Alanna a lunch and bring it to her at school. I felt like such a tool.

Today we wake up for another not so restful night of sleep and Emerie and Alanna are now sick as well. Emerie clearly has a stuffy nose but I can't see anything to get out of her nose so she just sounds very flemmy. I'm not entirely sure how Alanna is sick because she isn't really showing any symptoms of anything but I suppose it is possible for her just not to feel well. There is no school today and so I am expected to entertain her. I always feel kind of bad when I just stick her in front of the tv all day because I just don't have the energy to do anything. Maybe if I take her grocery shopping she'll think that is fun.

This picture was sent to me by my mom. Apparently she likes to play with her photoshop and this was her creation. I know this because I phoned her and asked her if it was supposed to look like that. Yes, it is supposed to look like that. I think Emerie looks very Gerber babyish.