Getting better

Well, there is NO WAY I can easily sum up the last few days. We've had an up and down roller coaster of fear with Mallory, mainly that she was getting dehydrated, but she's doing MUCH better. Since my last post about her, she began vomiting again with lots of the "other" stuff. She was also refusing to drink. My mom ended up getting what Mallory had on Wed morning, so I ended up driving home by myself on Wed and drove straight to the doc. I was seriously running on empty, but the Lord sustained! Mallory was showing signs of dehydration, but the doctor thought she was OK based on her actions. And as long as she urinated (it had been 12 hours since she had ANYTHING in her diaper when I saw the doc), he felt as though I should just keep doing what I was doing. OK, let me stop myself before I give anymore gory details. And I said this would be short...And in short, we're all doing better. Did I say that Ethan has a sinus infection? No, no, no...this is supposed to be short.

Last night was the first time I had slept all night in a week...no vomit!!! YEAH! It's the little battles we have to win these days. Mallory has lost 2 lbs in the past 4 weeks (10% of her body weight!!!) which means she's just been through the ringer. So, we'll be keeping her out of nursery and playgroup for the next few weeks in order for her little body to have a break from the illness. She and E are both sleeping now, which means it's time for me to rest. I haven't taken a picture in like 5 days (which is a LONG time for me...), but maybe I'll have some more to post in a few days. Needless to say, we'll be doing some R&R this weekend. We all need rest!

Here is a brief video of the kids on the horses at the Emu festival. This was before we knew Mallory was ill. We thought she was just tired, but she let us know her TRUE feels a few hours after this video was taken...