The Johnson's: Oct 19-25: Nana & Pops!

Nana & Pops Chalker drove 18 hours from Ohio to come spend the weekend with us - but they came especially to attend a special program for grandparents at Erik's school on Friday morning. Erik has never had any of his grandparents in town for this annual program, so I, for one, was very excited that Erik would have someone to attend the program with him. Nana & Pops arrived on Thursday morning around 9AM and Erik came down with the 24-hour stomach bug around 4PM. Yep, you read that right. Nana & Pops got to Florida after 18 hours just in time to see Erik puke up his guts. I really do hate puke. The first episode required that both Erik & I had to take showers & start a load of laundry. The poor kid, he had it bad. He had the dry heaves about 5 times after the first time. He would puke after just having one teeny, tiny ice chip. He would kinda choke as he had the dry heaves which freaked me out, so I spent the night on his floor. Erik thought it was just fabulous that he had company overnight and he woke up around midnight to take full advantage of this golden opportunity. It took me awhile to get him back to sleep; it was a long night for me.

I mentioned this in last week's blog, but this week is the first time that I've had to deal with a child sick with a stomach bug. I've been so lucky to have gone 3 1/2 years puke-free, but that ended with a vengeance this week with Elin getting sick on Sunday night and Erik on Thursday.

The rest of the weekend visit was very low-key, though we were able to sneak in a visit with my Uncle Phillip on Sabbath. We were very sad to see Nana & Pops leave at the end of the weekend. Their visit was way too short and sadly, Elin was just starting to warm up to Nana & Pops. She kept asking for me to pick her up and then waving Bye-Bye to Nana the entire weekend; I'm sure that Elin was worried that I was going to leave her with this new baby-sitter.

Funny Story Elin-Style:
She has recently learned to put her finger over her mouth and say "SSSSSS"; she did it to me the other morning. We were in the kitchen and she walked back into my bedroom looking for Kent. I followed her and called out to her. She stopped, turned around and told me to "SSSSS" and then she grinned, turned back and went to find Kent. I think she might have been trying to sneak up on him!!!!

Funny Story Erik-Style:
This weekend, Erik decided that he was going to clean up a mess on the kitchen table so he jumped up from his chair to grab a paper towel. On his way back to the table, he passed by Kent's chair and told Kent, "I'm cleaning up that mess. Don't move"!! My guess is that this is from when Erik dropped his piggy bank and I had to sweep up the glass shards while telling Erik to "not move a muscle." He didn't listen to that so good.