all the things.

emme has been sick this whole week. like, today is thursday and she's had fever since sunday (saturday night) sick. i brought her to the doctor on monday and they did a urine culture and a throat culture. throat was negative, but urine looked like it might be something, so they started her on an antibiotic and then sent the culture to a lab. today, four doses of a (strong) antibiotic in, i get the call that her culture came back negative. cease the antibiotic. fortunately, she's not running fever anymore and appears to be much better. so, something viral, they guess. but i am, as always, amazed at how the medical system works - or doesn't. it's not that i'm not grateful for our access to advanced medicine and all that. it's that i'm so frustrated with the whole thing...how i've felt guilty all week - trying to work half-ass while taking care of her; putting her in front of countless hours of tv and movies because i don't want her to overheat and she's weak and low energy anyway; that doctors are so quick to just stick them on drugs (reeeaaallllly expensive drugs - the 'script she's on would have been $700 if we didn't have insurance) for anything or nothing, and then she ends up NOT EVEN NEEDING them?! anyway. i'm calming down. i am really grateful that our kidlets hardly ever get sick because i don't handle it well at all.

before all this went down, we had a really fun weekend. some friends came over saturday night and the kids had a blast and stayed up too late having a living room dance party. lots of food and every toy in our house was out and scattered - the sign of a great time, i'd say.

last weekend, my parents came to town kind of last minute since we didn't have a definitive plan for our next hangout, and it was awesome. we didn't have any agenda (so rare for our clan) and just played and cooked and hung with the kids. we even rocked an adult crazy eights marathon. my mom was victorious, with jb in second place. i think this is the first time since his induction in our family that he hasn't come in dead last.

jb also got our chair back, but that's a post for another day.