Sick....blak....yuck...hack...cough.....yuck!!!

Ok so the entire family is sick. Emma started all the fun over the weekend, her best friend was home from school sick on Friday so we blame them (hahaha only kidding Gina!) So it all started with coughs, dry, wretched sounding, horrible unproductive coughs, one by one each 'big' kid gets it, then the fevers start, nothing so high that its scary but high enough, then the mommy and daddy start getting it! There is little worse than an entire household full of sick whiny people. And then there is the poor sweet baby, she was so strong for almost the whole week, we were feeling like she was pretty lucky, on top of the fact she is likely the most healthy, has the best diet of anyone else and gets good sleep etc. But then yesterday the fever and poor but still a little cute sounding cough. Poor girl! Still though, even when we all know she didn't feel good she still smiles. Her little eyes are perfect windows to whats really going on inside, it is so clear that she doesn't feel well but she is still so smiley and sweet. I hate that she is sick but wow she is an amazing child to still be able to smile at you like that. I am really really proud of all the kids to be honest. I've never heard such terrible coughs, you'd swear they were trying to cough up their toenails from the inside out, but they have been so brave and helpful to each other, sharing the blankets and tissues, being a lot more tolerant of whats on tv and watching shows that one doesn't like just because another one does and hopes that will make them feel better. Emma has had the cough the worst of everyone but still very little complaints, she listens to what we tell her and does whatever she can, even laying down for a nap which she HATES, just to help in the healing process. Its been the worst for them at night when they lay down the cough gets worse. I could say, hands down, they have all had more medicine this last week than in their entire life times combined. Poor pitiful things. Thankfully we don't think it was swine flu but some kind of flu for sure. It was definitely a weird something for sure. All the symptoms started on Saturday, today is Friday so hopefully we are about finished with it all. The big kids coughs are slowly starting to ease up a little bit but it has been a painful process for sure. So far too the baby's symptoms seem to be not as bad or as rough sounding but we're watching it close. It was helpful that school was closed this week so they weren't missing anything but there are a million things I can think of that would be so much better way to spend a week out of school than staying locked up in a house with 5 and now 6 sick people. The silver lining....maybe we are getting it all out of the way now and we'll ALL be healthy for the rest of cold/flu season! Fingers crossed!!!