Catch Up

I cannot believe I haven't posted in almost a month!!! I feel horrible but we have been so busy and I lost my camera there for a little while. Hopefully now we will be back on track with regular postings. So much has happened since my last post but I'm going to start with Chantz's birthday. Chantz's birthday was on January 25th and I felt so bad because we were all sick:( I had planned so many fun things since he was turning a quarter of a century and I couldn't even get out of bed until the late afternoon that day. The Saturday before we went to Gigi's house to celebrate with Gigi, Paul, Stevi and Brandon. Stevi and Brandon brought their adorable niece and her and Dalton had a blast playing with each other. Earlier that day Dalton had gotten his first "big boy" haircut. Usually we just cut with scissors but this time he got a buzz hair cut with a fade. I cried when they were done because he looked WAY older and I felt like I lost my baby:( While we were at the haircut place Dalton went to the bathroom right through his clothes which is VERY unlike him. I thought it was a little weird but we went afterwards to Walmart to get him a new pottey seat. We had bought him the one that sits on the ground a week prior and he almost had a heart attack when I put him near it so we were getting one that hooks directly on the seat instead. He picked out a football one of course and he loves it and carried it around the house for the remainder of that afternoon. While we were at Walmart he had went again through his clothes. I changed him again and when we got home which is literatly 5 minutes away he went again. I knew at this point something was wrong so I packed a ton of extra clothes and we went to Gigi's for Chantz's birthday celebration. I thought it was something he ate until at Gigi's he went two more times through his clothes. I went to Walgreens and got him two different pedialytes and pedialyte ice pops to try to help him from dehydrating. We ended up leaving early because his bottom started getting red and I knew I needed to get home and get him some diaper rash cream on there. Even though he was so sick you couldn't see ANY difference in him. He was his happy playful self the whole time. I took a ton of pictures while we were there. I kept wanting to get good ones with his new hair style:) Gigi and Paul just did one of the extra rooms into a playroom for the grandkids and it is so cute!!! She did orange and bright blue for the colors and I LOVE IT!!! The kids loved taking a bath together and opening chantz's cards and throwing around the gift cards ha they know where the money is.

When we got home the next day Dalton still had a little bit of the runs but it was getting better. Later Sunday night after we got back from my mom's house however Chantz started feeling nauseated and went to sleep in the other room in case he was sick. In the middle of the night I started to hear him throwing up and I couldn't believe that it was his birthday (at this point it was after midnight so it was technically Monday) and he was throwing up:( Not long after I started throwing up as well. His whole birthday we were both extremely sick:( that night my grandma brought over a cake because she felt that we still needed to sing him happy birthday even though we couldn't eat it. We had to use tea light candles since we couldn't find the other ones which was pretty funny, but it was still great that we got to sing him Happy Birthday:) Dalton and them had a great time eating it and even Aunt Carol and Hunter came over later to see how we were doing and wish him a happy birthday. It was very nice for all of them to be there with us. By the next day we were both fine and so was Dalton however that's when we learned that both my mom and my brother had gotten it along with Stevi, Brandon, Gigi and Paul. Thankfully by that weekend we were all better and no one was sick anymore. That Saturday night we went to go eat at Outback to celebrate what we would've done on Monday for his birthday.

In the end I think Chantz's birthday turned out to be great because we actually got to spend all day together as a family despite the circumstances. Hopefully next year we won't all be sick:)