I've been a little behind on writing lately. Shelly's been sick. What we thought was a 24 hour bug has lasted for four days now, and I'm not sure when she's going to come out of it. Puke and diharrea. Yuck. This morning at 6:00 I woke up to a strange smell and realized there was a large pool of puke right next to my face.
Another parenting revelation - when one kid is sick and requires a lot of extra attention, the other kid gets extra naughty, because he isn't getting as much attention as his sister and starts looking for ways to be the center again. The parent's only hope of surviving the illness is to hope that the sick kid sleeps a lot so there's time for the other one to get one-on-one attention. I thought that since we already had one, Shelly would be easy to figure out as she went through her growing stages, but I was wrong. The added dimension of the interaction between the two still keeps me on my toes.
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