A little piece of heaven

Mid-last week I got really really sick with the stomach flu. I had a fever, diarrhea, vomit, and felt terrible. 2 days later Nathan started throwing up. And the following day, Belle.

I am better, but both kids are still a mess. Neither of them has held anything down in 2 days. Poor Nathan lost the little bit of meat we’d finally managed to put on his bones. And Belle went from pudgy cute to lean and cute.

Last nigth was terrifying. I had on the monitor extra loud while Nathan slept, and I noticed a slight discrepancy in his beathing pattern. Something told me to go check on him, and I found him vomiting. I couldn’t hear the vomit, and he didn’t cry or make any tell-tale sounds. He sleeps on his belly so I don’t think he could’ve aspirated on it, but this still terrifies me as I know of a few children who have died this way.

I have so far kept them away from the hospital, but if this keeps up much longer I will have no choice but to take them both in.

We could really use some prayers, this isn’t more than a stomach flu but it sure is kicking all our behinds 🙁

Step 1. Start by vomiting your guts out in the middle of the night
Step 2. Add in some diarrhea
Step 3. Do not eat anything because anything you eat ends up as Step 1 or Step 2
Step 4. Drink lots of water to flush your system and stay hydrated
Step 5. Weight yourself after 24 hours – voila!
Step 6. Pray you stay sick so you can keep losing weight!

OR

You can get creative, come up with more ideas for Nathan’s Dynavox, win that super cool XBOX with Kinect, and lose 6 llbs in one day by wiggling your body all day.

Watcha waiting for? Come on, throw in your 2 cents!

Brand New XBOX 360 4G Console + Kinect Contest/Giveaway

Well, Oprah doesn’t really have anything to do with our XBOX + Kinect giveaway. But even Oprah thinks the Kinect is cool so come on and join our contest!

We’ve gotten some awesome ideas already and I am hoping for many more to come.

If you think you just don’t know anything about a Dynavox and can’t participate – you are wrong!

Are you creative? Are you crafty? Do you love kids?

Forget about the dynavox. Think of using a white board and using it in interactive ways to teach your kid to communicate. Any ideas are welcome!

PS Please help us promote this contest by posting about it on your blogs! I am hoping we can come up with a list of awesome ideas that other families can also use for their kids that use communication devices.