House Full of Sickies

I can't believe that it's already Thursday! I have hardly done a thing all week other than battle Ruby to administer medicine, wipe her nose, or get her to eat something... anything! Yes, she's sick. The poor thing sounds like she's purring/Darth Vader just trying to breathe. The positive side (I suppose) is that she can hardly stand to keep her pacifier in her mouth since it tends to preclude breathing. Maybe she'll break herself of it on her own! Malle, the cat, is very interested in her cat-like noises and has been spending even more time than normal cuddling up to her.

My theory is that she picked up this bug when we were babysitting over at our neighbor's house last Friday. Her little Jacob (2 months) has brochitis and an ear infection! Of course we dumbly put Ruby in the nursery on Sunday with Carter and now we're crossing our fingers that Carter isn't sick too. Ruby wasn't too interested in playing last Sunday so hopefully they didn't have much contact.

To add insult to injury, Jared is home sick too! He started getting a very sore throat on Tuesday evening, and ended up staying home most of the day yesterday and all day today. To be fair, they are having work done on the ventillation system at work so he isn't really able to be in there anyway with the fumes. Hopefully he'll be feeling better soon!!

We were supposed to have a baby shower for a few gals at church this Saturday, but it has been called off because the babies are sick! Something is definitely going around...

If Ruby is feeling better tomorrow I hope to take a trip out to the aquarium. It's about 45 minutes away by bus/train, but it's in a really neat little town and I'm sure she would enjoy it. She loved looking at the tropical fish when we were in Monterey, CA visiting my Dad last summer.

Well, I better be getting back to my charges!