I am going under...

The day started out at 4:45 when the sun was still down and Ava was crying in her bed. I let her cry for a while, but the cries kept getting worse and worse and worse. I went in to go check on her and I stepped into something warm, wet and mushy..... ewwwww. Needless to say, I got Ava up and took her downstairs for a little cleaning up and new clothes. I decided that I was going to take Ava to see the Dr. today because of her sudden general fussiness and lack of sleeping. The Dr. told us that she has a pretty bad ear infection, go figure. After we got home Lucy decided to throw up all over the place and make a mess up her second outfit for the day. Yes, Ava has an ear infection and Lucy has had the flu for the past 3 days.


We started our roof project today and I was rather skeptical about how the kids would nap. Surprisingly, Lucy slept her usual 2 1/2 hours without a fuss and Ava slept for about 1 hour. I was actually surprised that either of them slept at all with all the noise going on. After nap, Lucy got sick a few more times.. Poor thing. I sure hope she can keep some food down soon. This is the 4th day she has not eaten anything... Ava was a grump all day and Maddie started throwing up just tonight. She had been complaining most of the day that her tummy hurt, but I honestly just thought she wanted the same kind of attention that the babies were getting so i kind of put it off. I guess she wasn't just messing with me. Oh, and to top it off Ava stepped on a nail outside that came off of our roof. It did puncture the skin, so now I have to watch for infection.

Ava continues to sleep terrible. I am lucky to get her down by 8:00 most evenings and she is gets up by 5:30, sometimes earlier. ( She usually sleeps from 6:45pm to 7:30 am). Her naps are almost non existent... I got about 45 minutes out of her today (May 20th). She usually will sleep for at least 2 hours. Maddie woke up in the middle of the night with throw up all over her sheets... I don't know how much more of this I can take! I am SO overwhelmed... I pray that Ava starts sleeping better, Maddie gets better and Lucy stops puking all over the place. I have never done anything more challenging in my life than raising three kids, especially two that are the same age.