It’s Thanksgiving season, what’s not to be thankful for? I mean I have a beautiful, healthy baby, an amazing husband, a great little house, the Christmas tree is up and I am feeling great…..wait, scratch that last one.
Let me paint a graphic picture. Those who are into reading as little bathroom humor as possible, skip this paragraph. It all begins at 2:00 am, Thanksgiving morning when Ryan randomly wakes up, looks at me all wide eyed and says with a panicked voice, “I have diarrhea!” It takes A LOT to wake Ryan up. So off to the bathroom he waddles. I then drift in and out of sleep for the next hour as Chloe is making all sorts of noises from her bassinet signaling me that within the next 30-45 minutes she will be up. (It is quite a dramatic production for her to wake up fully, so I wait and wait until her little peepers are really open.) Anyway, it is 3:00 am and I realize Ryan never got back into bed and my bladder is about to explode. My brother-in-law is in the guest room next to the bathroom, so I try to knock softly on the door and see if Ryan fell asleep on the toilet or what. Much to my surprise, he has been pooping for an hour straight. He looks pathetic on the toilet. We are VERY open about the bathroom which may shock and appall some of you. Get over it, it works for us in our marriage. I then plead with him to give me a turn because I am about to wet my pants. He tries to stand up and another round comes. I now have to take drastic measures and I run to the kitchen, grab a 12oz disposable plastic cup, come back to the bathroom and proceed to pee into the cup. I filled it up to the rim, had to stop, pour it down the sink and finish peeing. I would say I peed 14oz! We had to laugh because the scene in the bathroom was beyond gross, we were at an all time low! Our ship went down together. Poor Ryan was up the rest of the night, pooping his brains out and puking. His ultimate low was at 6:00 am when he came in the room and grabbed a new pair of boxers because he was puking and a little poo snuck out the back at that same time. Nothing like pooping your pants when you are 28! He was really SICK!!!!
I started feeling nauseous by breakfast time, but I thought it was because I hardly got any sleep. Once we got to his parents house for Thanksgiving dinner my worst fears were confirmed…I was sick too! I barely got my lunch down before I was in their bathroom throwing up. We promptly left and went back home. My mind was racing with the responsibility of taking care of myself and taking care of Chloe, not getting dehydrated, not getting her sick….I wanted to cry!!! I just wanted to crawl into bed for like 8 hours but I couldn’t. Once I got home, it was all over for me. Ryan said it is like cutting both ends of a cookie dough roll and squeezing the middle. That about says it all! I will spare the blow by blow…but we all managed to finally get in bed and nap for 3 hours which helped a bit. Ryan felt much better that night, I saw a difference by Friday afternoon and today we are all feeling MUCH better. Praise the Lord, Chloe has managed to stay healthy. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday…super bummer that we had to spend what would have been a glorious afternoon of glutiny over a toilet.
The high point of this weekend was spending time with my brother-in-laws Joe and Sam. Joe came in clutch again by hooking us up with some sweet pictures of Chloe (what…more pictures of Chloe!) and our new family. Here are some of my favorites…click here to see the rest.
LOVE THIS SHOT…This will be blown up and framed!
I think she is confusing my lips with something else! Hmmmmmmm……
Hey green eyes, what’s shakin?
Joe said this looks like a cover shot for a mom magazine like “Redbook”….let’s hope not!
And the circle of life is complete…our little Symba child!
Joe did a great job on the pics! Chloe makes you guys look good.
Beautiful pictures… and so sorry to hear about the poo attack but I have to admit the story was kinda funny! Glad the babe is well and didn’t catch it - that would have been a mess!!
You poor things! There are few things worse than tummy bugs. Hope you all continue to improve.
Oh Kelly. What a shitty time you guys had! No man. Not a nice feeling that dough one.
I must HONESTLY get me some family who are photographers. Those photos are AWESOME! I wouldn’t know which ones to frame.
Heh. If Chloe says she wants to be a model later in life, we know exactly why: all of the practice she got as an infant.
Sorry to hear about the, um, “issue” you guys had at Thanksgiving! I can’t get over the number of bloggers that had a stomach flu over the holiday!
peeing in a cup - haven’t we all had to do that at some point in life?
glad to hear you’re doing better. i really hope it wasn’t us who gave it to you…
and love the pics. especially the one with ryan and his giant scary eye.
Oh my god….you had me laughing silently as I read your story - pity I couldn’t do it out loud as I didn’t wanna wake Ryder
LOVED the pics - you’re looking fabulous!!
i peed in a cup one time. it was in the middle of traffic in the back of a trucker’s cab. he was pleasant except for that fact that he insisted on watching me.
ralph and i like to spend weekends driving the open roads of america and taking long walks at highway rest stops.
Gorgeous pictures! Sorry I decided to read this blog right before eating lunch, though…Alex wants you to know that he will never look at Ryan the same way again. And that says a lot! Hope he is feeling better.
Why didnt you just pee in the tub or sink..skip the cup…lol! My hubby and I are the same way about those things! I am so sorry you didnt get to celebrate. I wasnt sick but we didnt go anywhere since the baby is so young. I love those pics you are lucky to have someone that can take them!
Yuckers.. nights like those are NOT a blast. I hope that you are all 100%. What an incredibly photographically talented and photogenic family you have!!
The pictures are awesome. Kelly, you do look like a magazine cover!!! And I feel your pain sista with the whole poo thing, at the beginning of this year Jim and I had the exact same thing. Did it last for about 24 hours? I love the pics and I hope we can come down soon and meet Chloe! Love you and miss you all.
kel - those pics are amazing. you are all such beautiful people. joe did an amazing job, too. hope you’re feeling better - huge bummer that you were sick!
if you were sick WHEN those pictures were taken, i am jealous. you guys look AMAZING! joe did a great job! but, i think it helps to have “very, very good looking” people to photograph.
hope you’re feeling good! there is nothing worse than that…….
oh those pictures are so beautiful Kel! I’m so sorry you were sick for thanksgiving… Hope you are both feeling better. love you!