Happy Birthday Crissy! ;o)

Hope you have a fantastic birthday filled with fun and laughter. Enjoy your time in Philly with your Mom and Dana. Hoping the baby shower is a big success. Wishing you a wonderful birthday and year ahead. Enjoy your day...you deserve it! xoxo

My Mump-alicious Munchkin

OY! And I mean it, too! OY!

It has been a LONG, trying few weeks. It seems like illness seems to be running rampant through our family tree. It starts at one end and by the time the last one's recover, the first one's are sick again.

Our immediate family is typically immune to these viral cycles. We just seem to have pretty strong constitutions. But Loki has been side swiped TWICE now.

He got the dreaded Norwalk Virus, that hit EVERYONE in our family with the exception of WB, Elora and I. But luckily, he was only down for about half a day. And NOW, he has the MUMPS.

That's right...the MUMPS! Oh, it's terrible...well, actually, it's not that bad. What's terrible is the thought that Whitebread and I gave it to him. Well, OK, we didn't really GIVE it to him, but we feel like we may as well have given it to him since we didn't vaccinate him against it.

Or atleast that was our initial knee jerk reaction. We chose not to vaccinate conscientiously. Mumps really isn't that bad of a malady. In fact, Loki is such a trooper. He looks just miserable (as evidenced by attached photos), but he's been in a GREAT mood. Now don't get me wrong, he is definitely sick. And does have a bit of trouble getting comfortable enough to go to sleep, but compared to that nasty Norwalk Virus, this is a walk in the park.

Here's hoping that you and yours are Virus FREE!