Sunday, August 17, 2008

Sunday Pic: Whew.

What a week! I mean, if you can measure the difficulty of a girl's week, by the damage done to the carpet... you'd get a very good idea of the week that I've had.

Flooding and water damage? Real bad.
Smoke or fire damage? The worst.
Arterial Blood Splatter? Yikes.

But if you are talking about a generally lousy sort of week, I think that red sploshes of Tropical Punch Kool-aide down the hallway ought to register as a "well, CRAAAAP!" sort of lousy. Apparently I was not getting dressed and into the kitchen to fetch Pearl her sippy of "juice" fast enough. She felt she needed to speed things up by bringing me the pitcher. Two weeks ago, I might notta freaked so bad, but I had just spent $149.95 getting the upstairs carpet cleaned. The upside is, I'm thinking that some of the enzyme that the cleaning fella had used on the carpet was still in there, because the red drips were already looking a little faded by the time I got the spot remover out to spray on the mess. After a good scrub, you cannot even see the trail Pearl left.

You can still see the two palm sized brown stains on the floor near her bed from last Tuesday Night's Festivities of Barf. And this is not to be confused with Monday Night's, Wednesday's, Thursday's, or Friday's Festivities. Seriously. Fun parties all. Today is, I hope, the Finale of Festivities. Last night, Saturday night, was all about waking up multiple times, but not puking. That was new. I'm thinking new is good. Only this morning, Pearl seems to be going for the Toddler's Trifecta of Nasty... The three P's of Unfortunate Stench.

Having taken care of the first "P," a.k.a. puke, with great efficiency earlier on in the week ( and on and on and ON), she has decided that she is in charge of removing her diaper herself whenever things get uncomfortable, i.e. whenever she has a load. Unfortunately she still has a spectacular case of the runs. The second "P" is poo, and the basement carpet has now been christened.

And I suppose that I should be proud of the fact that notwithstanding all the vomiting and diarrhea that she has suffered for almost a full week, due to my superior hydrating techniques via the Pedialyte, she had it in her to take care of the third "P" while she was down there as well.

Yay.

A curious side note to this particular party that our youngest has been having, she only ever vomited at night... and almost exclusively during the hours of midnight to five am. So every day we would think that she was on the mend... and every night, whups! No sleep for YOU!

One notable exception: after an exhausted (sleep-deprivation for a pregnant lady is extra un-fun) trip to the doctors office where the guy just told me "yeah... sucks to be you, watch for dehydration." It was beyond my ability to make lunch, so I took the girls to the Drive Thru at a C@rls Jr. to get some happy meals, I discovered that one of the last places you want a two year old to start barfing is while strapped into a car seat, jammed next to her sister, first thing after getting into the drive-thru lunch line after another car has just pulled in behind you. As bad as I feel for Pearl, I almost feel worse for Birdie who got it in her hair and all down her shirt.

You are not interested in what it takes to clean up and limp home after such and experience. Not if you are sane.

Please let this be the end.

As I have no pictures that anyone would want to see this week, I have included the birthday cakes of the Chaos Girls that got missed during my blogging break.


Pearl's second birthday



LaLa's fourth birthday



Birdie's sixth birthday

13 comments:

Fantastagirl said...

Ya know what - your week really was awful. I hope life is better this week!

The cakes are awesome!

Shelli said...

Yuck. I'm sorry it was so bad. I hope it gets better, soon. Like today.

Superwoman said...

So sorry, what a yucky week, hopefully this week will be better, after all school starts right???

Anonymous said...

what adorable cakes! such talent. i hope the poor girly gets better and that you have a better week next week! Do you think Pearl's maladie is a sickness or an allergic reaction to something?
wub tamy

elizasmom said...

Wow. In an ewwww-sorry way to your tales of the three Ps. And in an I'm-really-impressed way to your cake talents. How lovely!

Anonymous said...

I am not so sure I want to attend your "festivals" but I am so happy the girls are on the mend. Also, what do you charge to ship a cake cross country??

Mama D said...

Yuck. This explains why I haven't heard from you yet. :) So sorry to hear about all the sickness. Not fun. Sorry for Birdie as well, but I bet she 'took' it like a trooper.

I love the cakes. Especially the tree one. I'd like you to make this one for MY Birthday, if it's not too much trouble. I'm sure you have time, in between cleaning up one of the three p's.

xoxo

The Absent Minded Housewife said...

Puke...

I just shampooed my carpets. Dammit, no one had better puke around here!

My kid once puked at Delle. That's the rest stop smack in the middle between SLC and Bendover. I now own this little wet vac for the car.

Anonymous said...

I gather all of those spills and awful things and tucked in a safe little place in my colon. I feel your pain only I don't have the crazy cake talent! Great work!

Mommy Munch said...

I am SO GLAD that I only have one child......LMAO! This just re-affirms it! You will definately be in my thoughts and prayers! Btw, those cakes are fabulous! I made Ladybug cupcakes for my daughter one birthday a few years ago and they turned out awesome, but never again! LOL!

Unknown said...

Yeesh! I'd hate to ring that carpet out!

Jo said...

Big time sorry for the pukes! And sorriest for the sister who got it in the hair. Hope you are all feeling better! The cakes rock!

the Dread Pirate Rackham said...

ack - they do get better eventually. they get sturdier, they barf less, but ack. you've had more than your share! get some sleep - soon!

gorgeous cakes bon - you're a pro! you're so great with colors!