Faith gets the H1N1

Faith has the H1N1 - she started running a fever on Sunday night and it has never gone away. She didn't have any other complaints except that she was cold and hurting with various aches and pains. When she ended up having a bad night last night with Advil and Tylenol not helping I knew it was time to call the Pros - So I called Jane and she called an order to the lab at the hospital for Faith to get swabbed for the H1N1. I tried to explain a little bit to Faith before we got there that she and I would both need to wear masks when we got in the doors and that she would get tested in the lab. She was worried that her throat was going to get swabbed like when she had strep throat and she knew that was no fun. I told her that it was a test with the nose and she would be a big girl and it would be over fast. She did cry when she got the test done but she didn't throw a fit and she was not bad she was just upset and said that it hurt her nose. She got to meet Dr Daehkne on her way out of the hospital. He was concerned that she was crying, I tried to explain why she was crying and that she had just had her nose swabbed and he thought that she had had her shot and that was why she was crying. She cheered up a little talking to him so that was nice. He is a very nice man to stop and try to cheer up a little one, especially one that he didn't even know.

Here are a few pics of Faith sleeping. She has been really good and not too whiney so I am lucky with that. I feel bad missing work but it is nice to be here with her, and it is good that I am not putting too much on my mom. I am lucky to have gotten the Tamiflu for me so that I will be able to go back to work this week, hopefully on Thursday if I have no symptoms. I am hoping that Faith will be feelilng better to go to school next week.

Mary feels really bad for Faith about the nose swab and would not have consented to get a swab done herself so it is good that she is not sick. She has been very sweet to Faith and trying to be helpful for me and that is just the nicest thing since she is a grumpy teenager but is not acting that way at this time!

I have not posted any pics of Mary with her red hair so I will do that here. This pic is so cute with Katie and her both having red hair - love the lipstick Katie! Mary is having alot of projects to do at school. It sounds like a lot of work so hopefully she will do well with all of it. I guess there is some sort of 3D cell project for science, a holocaust scrapbook for English and a tour guide poster for World History.

This pic is from a while ago but I liked it since they both looked so cute. It looks like a day that they were making popcorn for movies or something. Katie is so cute in glasses. And I must say that I liked Mary with purple hair better than red. The red is cute and a nice change but I miss the purple...

Well this weekend we had plenty of visitors. Faith had Mads spend the night on Friday and Becca took both girls to the church fall festival at the fair grounds on saturday. Dad went to the KSU game and had a wonderful time with that. He got to see in person KSU beat KU...HAHA. I got to watch the game on the big screen in dad's favorite chair with Tim (Becs boyfriend). Tim got to come and visit the family this weekend and I guess Mads asked Bec where he was sleeping...LOL. He slept in Bubs room so that was not a problem. I found it hilarious that Mads is worried about Becca's soul - I should not be surprised - she is the sweetest kid and very religious - just as a kid should be.

Mom did a craft booth at the church fall festival and I think that it went well for her, she has been doing a lot of cute stuff. I wish that I could be as crafty as she is :) It was funny since Libby, Margaret and Ashley came over to help mom carry in all of her stuff from the craft booth and they got to meet Tim. I think that he will be here for Thanksgiving though so he will get to meet the entire family then! Good luck to Tim! When there are a ton of us together it is hard to get a word in edgewise. He did get to see my mom smack me for cussing this weekend so I think that he is getting the idea about what this family is about! Mom is the boss and we all try to stay out of the way!!! Also, I cuss alot so I need to work on that :) I thought that it was very nice when Bec told Tim that Faith was sick with the flu he asked if they should come and help take care of her - isn't that nice. I guess he has learned that kids are always first ~ he will have to know that being around this household :) I will have to try to get a picture of Bec and Tim together so I can post that.