This is the day I turned 33! I had a pretty typical Monday that day and we had take-out mexican and half a chocolate cake for dinner.

Unfortunately a stomach bug hit me in the middle of the night and didn't completely leave for 5 days or so. J was the only other one to be affected and seemed to get over it much quicker than me. We have been pretty well since then until today. E has a fever and I pray that no one else gets this new invader. I am really finding that having little children can be so physically taxing on parents. It's hard to get enough sleep (amen to that) and viruses creep in from all sides. Plus, messes are just waiting to happen. I had a great idea (haha) about trying to potty-train J. He seems to do fine if you let him run around in the nude (at least bottoms free). He will go sit on his little potty if he needs to go. So I thought if I just left a diaper off and just pulled up his pants maybe we could just take him to the potty regularly AND he could tell if he needed to go. This morning we had one pee-pee 'AH-OH' but not a huge mess and then I let him play outside a bit and boy was that a mistake! Let's just say, "poop filled his jeans". Baths are good, but this boy has had a diaper on all the rest of the day and the jeans, socks, and shoes are soaking in Oxiclean. Maybe we'll wait to do some more 'free-be' days.