Easter with Ryan and Anna

Ryan's been pretty sick the past several days.  Auntie Patty called me on Thursday and said Ryan woke up from his nap with a 104 temperature. He has a bunch of white spots on his throat but has tested negative for strep.  We (the doctor, nurses and Tony and I) are assuming it's a virus and we just have to wait it out.  He's been hitting 103 and 104 about once a day and yesterday we had to give him a cool bath to bring the temp down, but today, I think we've broken the high streak.  He woke up with a 100.6 temp and has been running around playing and terrorizing Anna as usual.

We were healthy enough to search for our Easter baskets and Easter eggs this morning and the kids had a blast. 

The saddest part about being sick was missing the annual Mano family Easter egg hunt where the hunt for the little kids is first and then the "real" hunt for the big kids follows.  It's my favorite family party of the year. Auntie Linda sent some eggs to the kids so we had a lot of eggs to hunt for. Unfortunately, all I have are long videos which aren't going to post on here so here are some post hunt pics.

We attempted a short Easter lesson about the true meaning of Easter.  Anna didn't understand a word I said and I think Ryan thinks Jesus brought him his Easter basket this morning.

Hope you had a happy and healthy Easter.

just a note...

to let you know that we're still alive.  March pretty much kicked my butt. During the entire month, one or more of us were sick at any given moment.  I was sick for about two weeks during which I may or may not have become addicted to Nyquil.  To a chronic insomniac, that stuff is magic and quite frankly, still hard for me to resist. From time to time, on sleepless nights, I may or may not get up (after hours of tossing and turning) and down a 1/4 dose. Yes, I usually suffer the next morning from a Nyquil hangover, but I will admit that the Nyquil hangover is preferable to 3 hours of sleep.

I've recently become aware that there is a product call Zquil or some iteration of that spelling. Because I have been Nyquil free for a few weeks now, I am resisting the Zquil urge.

I'm also told that talking about sleeping habits is not that interesting, but there you go. Such is my life.


In the meantime, here is one of my new favorite pictures of my two little ones. I promise to write again soon and about something more interesting than my ongoing battle with sleep issues.  We have a few other interesting stories to tell...