Sickity sick sick

Gah. I'm SO annoyed. I'm home sick today with strep throat. Things were relatively mild (headache, sore throat) Sunday and Monday although I took something for the headache. Then my throat still hurt when I left work so I checked in the mirror when I got in the car and sure enough...my right tonsil was COVERED in the tell-tale white spots. I hightailed it home, got the girls, fed Hadley, and handed them off to Adam so I could get to/home from Urgent care asap. By ASAP I mean almost 2 hours (annoying again). I missed the whole evening with them while I sat in a stupid room. :( The short test came back negative but the PA who looked at me was quite shocked with how my tonsils looked and gave me a Rx right away.

I still felt pretty good until the girls were in bed and I finished chores. Then it hit me and I started to slow down quite a bit. I woke up and could hardly swallow in the middle of the night but I felt guilty not going to work today so I got up, showered, and then realized I'd not be too thrilled if someone came to work contagious with something I'd hate to catch so I put my PJs back on and headed back to bed for 10 minutes before Hadley was ready for feeding.

So I'm home, I slept some this morning, worked a little here and there, and am generally taking it easy. I have that 'sick headache' where I'm ok if I'm sitting/relaxing but when I get up, I get this pounding headache. I'm glad I stayed home but it's still SO annoying to have the blip on my work radar. That said, at least I was able to get a chicken in the crock pot for after Morgan's swimming lessons so we could have something healthier than another round of pizza (which they had last night while I was gone anyway...). :)

In more fun news, since I'm posting, the girls are of course continuously growing and changing.

Morgan is smart smart smart. Two nights ago at dinner she was having dessert (which is now necessity in her world) and she was playing with the four tiny cameras she found at my work's Easter egg hunt and we started doing some simple addition/subtraction with her...and she LOVED it. Adam was BEAMING as of course, he's the math nerd of the family, among other nerdy things he loves. We'll play with it and see what she does. We never force these things on her - we just present them and if she likes it, we roll with it.

Hadley is changing more than Morgan, which is to be expected. I think we can safely say now that it's been probably two weeks that Hadley sleeps through the night. No feeding required! She'd gone a few nights without feeding before we went to WI two weekends ago and has kept with that since. She still gets up for a paci here and there and sometimes reswaddling since she's a pretty good escape artist (ok ok, the swaddle is too small and good ol' Muscatine has NOTHING to offer there for a bigger one), but otherwise, she's doing well. Not last night, but several nights before, she struggled with going down to sleep instead of her usual 'I see you walk out of my room and go to sleep on my own just fine.'

Hadley now enjoys her exersaucer while very supervised. She still needs a blanket for support since she's so tiny in there, but for the most part, she's good and likes it. Morgan likes to play with her too while Hadley is in there.

Hadley is now supplemented (while at home) for 3/5 of her feedings. She usually only takes 2 extra ounces after nursing, but it's necessary. She's growing and I'm not keeping up. At daycare, she takes an extra feeding from the frozen stash which will turn into formula when the stash runs out. Hadley readily takes the bottle and seems almost eager when it's time to have one.

Morgan misses me. I miss her. We've just been very busy lately and I end up spending a lot of time with Hadley (thank you, nursing) and I don't always get the time with Morgan that we both would like. This is yet another reason I'm super excited for summer break - when Hadley naps (except during Morgan's nap), I get that extra time with her and we love it. We've tried to make more of an effort for us to spend time together and I can see her eyes light up with that 1:1 time. I love having two babies...but it's hard when one is so little and requires so much time/energy currently.

Ok, I think that's good for now. We're waiting to hear if Ross & Kristen will be coming to visit for Easter unless he has to work. Otherwise Adam's parents will come...either way, we should have family here and then it's WI the next weekend for my cousin, Jessica's, wedding! SO excited to see a bunch of family since we don't usually make it back for their Christmas (held earlier in Dec). But that's too much to think about at the moment so I'm going to go rest a bit more, me thinks.