yucky week

Our kids have been sick, sick, sick this past week. We're pretty sure they have had croup. Fortunately, Isaac has not seemed to catch it. He's the one it would be most dangerous for. Lilah is still really sick. Seth is feeling better. This morning Seth got up, washed his face with soap and water, brushed his teeth, combed his hair, and got dressed. He then chastised me for still being in my pajamas at 9am. Yes, he's feeling better. =) It's been a rough few days though. Lilah got sick first and has stayed sick the longest. On Saturday Seth was feeling really badly and developed a nasty conjunctivitis. So Josh went to get eye drops that we had in the cupboard to treat him. We put the eye drops in and Seth FREAKED OUT saying that they stung. We were only able to get one round of drops in each eye. So about an hour later we had to put in another round of drops. Seth went nuts again and we were like "why is he freaking out about this? These shouldn't really hurt?" So Josh put a drop in his own eye and said it was horrible. He took a closer look at the bottle and realized he had been putting ear drops from Seth's last ear infection in Seth's eyes. No wonder. oops. Way to go Dr. Vicena. We felt terrible. It was a Bausch and Lomb container and Josh just missed the little ear picture on the side. I don't think Seth will ever let daddy live that one down as he has told everyone in the family about it and still talks about the stinging drops that daddy shouldn't have put in his eyes. lol... Other than that, the weekend has been pretty uneventful and has mostly just been laying around watching movies. The one highlight was yesterday afternoon. Lilah was having a particularly rough day yesterday and really just slept on the couch ALL DAY. She only got up a couple times to vomit mucous from the coughing. Seth was doing better so he went to the store with Grandma to get more ibuprofen. He came home with pink carnations for Lilah and presented them to her with a smile and a hug. Lilah was thrilled and hopped up immediately to put them in water. She gave Seth a hug and a kiss and felt so special. She felt like such a little princess and I thought it was nice that her first flowers from a boy were delivered by her very caring and sweet big brother. Precious mom moment. =) So, today we are all staying home for one more day and resting and then I will be wiping down and Lysoling the entire house!

apple pie

We were having some friends over last night from Josh's residency program and wanted to make an apple pie to use up some of the apples we have picked. I didn't really feel like a crumble topping so I looked online for a good apple pie recipe without a crumb topping and found this one on allrecipes.com. It had almot 900 reviews and was rated 5 stars so I gave it a shot. It was absolutely delicious. The best apple pie I've ever tried. So here is the recipe and a pic of my pie. I use the store bought roll out pie dough to make it even easier but I'm sure it would be even better with a homemade crust. Just thought I'd pass it along. =) Also, I tried a hot apple cider recipe from allrecipes.com that was fantastic and here is that recipe as well. I didn't have any cheesecloth on hand or whole cloves and spice berries so I just put all of the ingredients directly into the cider and used normal clove spice and allspice. But it was still great.

Pie: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/grandma-oples-apple-pie/Detail.aspx

Cider: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/hot-apple-cider/Detail.aspx

A serious medical problem

Ok, so I went to the Y to workout yesterday and took a cross training class which kicked my butt in an embarrassing way. I forgot to eat anything that morning so I got half way through the class and my blood sugar bottomed out and I had to walk out. Everything was going black and and I was dizzy and couldn't hardly hold my head up. A lady from the class had to run to get me a bag of fruit snacks to get my sugar back up. Embarrassing! Now you Columbus ladies who always wanted me to do Leah's class know why I wouldn't do it! But this is not my serious medical problem... Today my muscles are sore and I can seriously barely move. So I was having Josh rub out my back and the kids wanted to know why I was yelling (because it hurt so bad). Seth said, "Mommy are you ok? Do you need me to get you a Diet Pepsi? Do you need a snack?" (Can you tell my sugar drops freqentlyenough that my kids are trained to get mommy a snack or a coke when I'm laying on he floor?) I told him no that I was fine and just would like a hug. So he said, "Do you need a doctor? I'll be your doctor!" And he was off. He returned a few minutes later dressed in full dctor gear complete with his scrubs and little white lab coat and doctor bag. He asked me what the problem was and I told him that my muscles were sore. He scratched his chin and said, "Hmmmm... Let me check my patient schedule..." (which he did on his little clipboard and charts). Then he examined my arm and diagnosed my "serious medical problem". Apparently, I have eaten too many Twizzlers and one got stuck in my muscle. He put on his surgical mask and announced that he was going to have to give me a shot because this was major surgery. He performed the injections and checked to make sure they didn't hurt too badly. His bedside manner was outstanding I must say. He also checked my ears and said,"Oh my goodness! You have a Twizzler stuck in there too!" He got the Twizzlers out, thank goodness, and then checked his patient chart again to see that Pinkie Pie pony was his next patient. So, while I am very proud of Seth's doctoring skills... I did learn some disturbing things this weekend. I am out of shape and will embarrass myself if I attempt to excercise with people and I eat too many Twizzlers.