Tired of Illnesses

Watching Papa's Wildcats on the new tv in the newly finished basement. It was too cool!

M. found her "pumpin" and was all smiles at the patch!

K. found several candidates, but finally settled on this one!

Enjoying the pizza at her first fall party.

K. is all ready for her fall party at school, even down to the pumpkin barrettes in her hair!

I was reading the last post in which I said "hope we don't get the flu". Well, we did. All three kids came down with the dreaded swine flu at the end of September. Kelsey came down with it first and two days later, Patrick and Meghan got hit with it. Fortunately, it was very mild for all three. About 5 days with a fever, coughs, aches, and a few runny noses, but that was all.
We had about two weeks with no illnesses and then M. started with a runny nose and a cough. Just as she is in the middle of her cold, P. comes down with some kind of stomach virus. Again, fortunately, the vomiting part lasted about 12 hours (which unfortunately began at 10pm) so not much sleep for he or I on Tuesday night. Yesterday, K. started with the stomach thing, too. So, both home from school today and gathering their strength to be able to participate in P.'s school party tomorrow (they are on fall break next week, so we are doing them this Friday).
Too much sickness for one mom to handle!
We did manage to go and get pumpkins in between rounds of illness. M. loves her "pumpins", but I am pretty sure when we go to carve them she will want nothing to do with the goop inside. She is pretty particular about having clean hands. K. took FOREVER to pick out her pumpkin. She could not decide on shape, color, or size. She finally settled on a medium, round, bright orange pumpkin...in fact, it is probably the most perfect pumpkin I have ever seen at a patch...maybe it was worth all of her time to find it then! We had our first experience with a child not too keen on family time. P. wanted to play the Wii, not go and get pumpkins, so he begrudgingly chose one to add to the pile. Hopefully, he will be more upbeat when we carve them.
We are looking forward to our trip to Chicago next weekend for the PSU/ NU game; lots of trick-or-treating; and K.'s birthday party with my family. This will be a great end to what feels like a very long, very ill month. Here's hoping November brings health to the Lynch household!