Snowy, sick day

Well, just last week I was telling Dan how fortunate we were this year that the kids hadn't gotten sick yet. It was the first year that I didn't get them into the doctor for their flu shots. We've been so well, I hadn't been sick, and the kids have been healthy as horses. Well I guess I spoke to soon. Monday night Kirk started to come down with a fever, and chills. Then this morning Kate woke up and said that her head hurt. I felt it and she was definitely warm too. I gave her some children's Tylenol, and told her she could spend the day in bed and stay in her P.J's. She said " can I watch swan princess in bed too". I figured why not. Watching movies is the only upside to being sick, I'd might as well make it as fun as possible. So I took a picture of the kids in bed watching the movie. Kirk isn't really sick anymore. His fever is gone. He's just taking advantage of the movie perk. Today after I gave Kate the medicine she said "I told you I would get sick, but I didn't even share a drink with Kirk". She was really worried about catching kirk's fever, and I told her she wouldn't get sick as long as she didn't share a drink with him. So much for that theory. It's so hard to keep illness contained to just one person in the family. If anybody has had any success with that please share your secret. If one person gets sick over here we all end up with it. I also took pictures of the kids sleeping on the floor. Kirk is going through this weird phase were he refuses to sleep in his bed. He wants to sleep on Kate's floor every night. I don't think he's slept in his bed for about six months. I'm hoping he out grows it, but I'm actually starting to get a little worried. Maybe once the baby is in his room with him, he'll want to sleep in there. I guess I like to pick my battles, it's not hurting anyone to let him sleep on her floor, so why not. Kate just recently got a sleeping bag from her grandma Black. It's a high school musical one. So she also is sleeping on the floor on the other side of her bed. I had to take a picture, because I think that it's hilarious that their beds take up so much space in their rooms and they don't even use them. And so it is with kids. I've found sometimes it's the simple things that make them the most happy, and they are content with so little, even with sleeping on the floor. Just one more thing, yesterday the kids were coloring pictures and Kirk very proudly lifted up his drawing to show me. I said "oh that is so cute Kirk", he promptly replied "It's not cute mom, It's awesome". I could help but start laughing. Were on earth did he learn the word awesome. It's funny to me that he is already understanding the difference between girly cutesy words, and boyish ones. He really is growing up to be such a cute little guy. Everything with Kirk is exciting. He has so much energy and enthusiasm with everyday little things. I am loving this age that he's in right now.