the best laid plans...

any time i am missing-in-action, you can be reasonably sure that there is some sort of sh!te going down in the homestead. this little absence can be attributed to the good old stomach flu. our first. the sad thing is that it was going to be such a productive day. i woke up, showered (this makes today more productive than any in the past 60+ days - most showers don't occur until the afternoon nap, if at all) and was planning on heading over to the local montessori to get some info. not so.

before i even showered, bridget woke up and threw up a bit. there has been so much phlegm flowing here over the past week that i just assumed that she had swallowed too much and it upset her stomach. then i get out of the shower to hear some mild hysteria downstairs. miss b has a bloody nose, i am told. now i don't know what constitutes a bloody nose, but i envision blood pouring out of a nose and not just some blood mixed in with snot - which is what we have. no problem, we are still on for the day's events. until.

until miss b gets this look in her eye and seems to start gagging. then out it comes. whoa! no montessori today. the first outfit change of the day happens.

so we head downstairs to play. she seems to be alright and is drinking lots of fluids. i am sitting on the ground playing and she comes over to me and i manage to miss that same look in her eye until its too late. and she pukes. mostly on me. better than the new-ish rug. its the same m.o. - 3 heaves in the set. now that she's started, and i'm covered, we are stuck. so i decide that the best route is just to take it and i hold her so that she pukes on me instead of the rug. it was surprisingly no big deal - until she lifted her head, looked me in the eye and coughed. gee thanks. double outfit change.

what a laugh that i already showered.

after this incident, we became semi-professionals with the bucket. no major misses - 4 more outfit changes though due to some dripping. the kid's a champ though. she could have cared less. she'd finish, shout "tissue!", and start running around as though nothing happened. awesome!