A heck of a week

Yesterday we had a little scare with our sweet Quinn. 

Due to the lack of ample wet diapers she was borderline needing to be admitted for dehydration. 

She had no energy and was still puking everything. 

When Quinn went down for one of her 2 ½ hour naps, I quickly put out a prayer request to our family {parents, grandparents aunts, uncles, cousins}  including the one woman who the Lord seriously listens to, my Granny Joyce.

 {Any news in my family spread like wildfire! Especially a prayer request!}

I'm a huge believer of the power of prayer and I tell you what... yesterday solidified that belief. 

I was scared. 

I had a gut feeling she was headed to the hospital after her nap. 

Not only did she wake with a wet diaper she also woke with an appetite for crackers and water.

She even managed to keep it all down!

When she woke up she was a totally different kid. 

She had her spunk back, was smiling and 

even danced a little to her favorite beat {T. Swift's Shake it off}.

Praise the Lord!!

Today she hasn't thrown up since 4 am and it wasn't much at all. 

She has been sipping water and eating animal crackers. 

I hope today is the last of this nasty virus. 

It's been one heck of a week y'all. 

Weekending|| Sick Babes

I'd be lying if I said that my weekend was a good one.  Both of the girls had a horrible, no good, very ugly stomach bug that has yet to relinquish it's hold on them. We have done at least 10 loads of laundry that are puke or poop related because my sweet ladies have it bad. Kensington was sick all week long puking only at 1:00 am every night since Wednesday. I thought we dodged a bullet with Quinn but then Friday night she woke dry heaving several times and I knew that it was going to be a rough Saturday. She vomited a lot. Poor little gal vomited so much that every time she started feeling queasy she put her head on an old towel {since we had been chasing her with old towels catching the puke}. She learned quickly. Kensington only puked a few times on Saturday, thankfully.  Sunday Quinn only a few times and Kensington didn't at all. Neither of them ate much all day. At the end of the day I offered them toast. Kensington ate two pieces like she hadn't eaten in days {kinda true}. This is the first time I've ever dealt with the stomach bug... I've never had it before and I just feel awful for them. Quinn is still puking today.  Kensington is on the mend and feeling much better. Check out how pitifully cute they were.

Whirlwind....

It's been a while since I last posted. It's been a busy few months for me to say the least...

  In September I drove from New York to Georgia and back, visited most of my Georgia family with the girls and had dinner, drinks or both with many of my friends that are near and dear to me. It was a whirlwind of breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and desserts for me and the Zabies. My guy drove from New York to Georgia, flew to St. Louis and back to Georgia, then flew to New York for a few days only to fly back to St. Louis and then back to Georgia so we could then drive back to New York... whew... are you tired yet? Just thinking about it makes me exhausted all over again. The Zabies are troopers to say the least. We had days where they napped both naps in the car or ate snacks en route to our next destination. Georgia, Atlanta specifically, is much different than Central New York. It takes a minimum of 20-40 minutes to get anywhere, and lets not talk about the possibility of traffic. Traffic = 30 more minutes, at least! The two weeks I was there was crazy... cray, cray, I tell 'ya. I'm thankful to be home but miss my parents terribly...

October was full of playdates and sickness for the Zabies. What started out as a minor cold that took out our whole play group turned into secondary pneumonia for my feisty Kensington and an ear infection for my sweet Quinn. It took a few weeks to recover fully so our days were filled with lots of Doc McStuffins, Sofia the First and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse all while cuddling with sippies of milk on the couch. Halloween was thrown into the mix and we were lucky enough to have a nice evening for trick or treating on our little street.

Our Little Pumpkins on Halloween!

November was a busy, busy month for us. We had several play dates, I had TWO girl's night outings, a friendsgiving dinner, followed by more play dates, my guy traveled to St. Louis for a week, we had traditional Thanksgiving dinner with family from St. Louis and North Carolina joining us and my guy traveled back to St. Louis again ending his ABI class finally bringing us into.....

Friendsgiving group picture

DECEMBER!

One of my favorite months. The month that holds Christmas and many traditions of both of our families' and now we are gearing up for our own family traditions. We held a huge Christmas party with about 70 people in attendance only one day after Josh returned from a week long business trip to St. Louis. The following day were TWO more christmas parties that filled our days and the list of Christmas parties to come goes on and on!

Whew! What a whirlwind the past four months have been! I can't even believe it's December and that 2014 is coming to an end.