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Health status of the family since Saturday:

Homer - has an infected tooth, is on penicillin and vicodin now

MagicPointeShoe - pink eye

Juliet - healthy but suffering from a severe case of stir crazy from boredom

Serafina - has had a blocked sinus cavity since late Friday night, but it finally cleared today. watching her face swell up on one side, plus puking, plus a constant fever was overwhelming considering the above.

Athena - healthy

In non health related news, we have been blessed by kind friends with some new to us furniture. Homer's friend delivered to us a nice dining room table with four chairs. Combined with our two thrift store dining room chairs, we actually have a dining set to have dinner around. Our dining room is also finally free of moving boxes!

Also, Homer's mom's friend's friend was getting rid of her leatherette couch and chair. So in our family room we now have a more comfy arrangement. I especially like the chair for nursing the baby in.

And in non-health related news and non-furniture related news, our baby is almost ONE YEARS OLD! Egads, when did that happen?

but Serafina is napping. Her teeth took all of maybe ten minutes to install into her mouth. She wasn't terribly pleased while it happened, but within a half hour of leaving, Sera was quite impressed with her new teeth. Since she saw her reflection in the mirror away from the dentist's office and decompressed from feeling overwhelmed by when they put it in, she has been all smiles.

Her eating has already started adapting to be able to bite off foods from the front again, but her speech will take some time to adapt to the new teeth I think. To go from very little talking to talking our ears off after the teeth were removed, now she has to get used to having that word use with teeth being in the spot where they weren't before.

Homer was a doofus though when I took Serafina back for the dentist. He took Juliet next door to the gas station supposedly to get water, but then got talked into getting Juliet chocolate milk. =o/ Chocolate milk on an empty stomach that is easily triggered for throwing up, and then starting the van and driving was definitely a doofus choice. He's downstairs now with the spotbot trying his best to get the smell and mess out of the van carpets. Juliet throwing up in the middle of the day also solidified my choice in deciding to keep her home from school again tomorrow. I'll worry about how the recovery is going come Sunday.

Both Juliet and Serafina are still battling this stomach flu. The good news would be that they are only pooping runny tummy just a few times a day now instead of multiple times. Also good news is that they both have a small bit of appetite despite having their bowels flip out at them. Also when they do eat, they are getting small bursts of feeling better before getting exhausted again.

Juliet is likely going to be out of school this whole week though. Today is PE day, and if that wouldn't trigger her, the fact that she was up three times last night either throwing up or pooping is enough to keep her home. I think she got triggered by dinner being one of her larger meals. I mentioned to her one of the times she was up last night that today we got to spread out her eating into smaller meals more frequently so that her tummy doesn't decide to flip out on her again like that.

Serafina on the other hand is only having the runny tummy issues. She isn't throwing up, except for once much earlier in the week. I think the breastmilk is helping her through this a bit better than Juliet fighting this all on her own.

In other news, around 11 this morning we head off to the dentist for Serafina to get her replacement teeth (pedo-partial) installed. Wish us luck and calmness for that.

It is her first cold, and it's making her and I miserable. My mil and gil gave it to her over the weekend. They had been fighting cold and both had a nasty cough that they say is allergies. =oP

Anyways, Friday night we go out to dinner with them and just before they show up, Homer picks a fight with me and I get really mad. I was mad because I knew he was going to get mad cleaning the kitchen and it was why I offered to clean it while he watched Juliet for a few minutes. "Oh no, I won't get mad, I promise" =oP

So, mil and gil come in the middle of me getting mad at him for getting mad at me. Dinner sucked and they snap at me to over Juliet playing with a spoon. I tell them to back up with their words, I'm too stressed to bother with it.

I guess they decided that I need a break from the baby, which really I need a break from attitude from Homer. So they insist on carrying her all through Sam's club, and thus now the baby is sick.

And now she's throwing up the cold medicine we are giving her. I'm going to get a refund.