Patrick had a little bug two nights ago. Poor guy went to sleep and I didn't think anything was wrong. About 15 minutes after I FINALLY laid my poor, sorry head down I heard scuffling, which I knew was Patrick making a spot in our bed. Then I heard coughing...followed by puking. Ugh. So I picked him up and pretty much threw him in the bathroom and made him stand there over the toilet while I picked out new jammies for him and got new sheets for the bed. I put a towel underneath his head and nervously went back to sleep. (By "nervously went back to sleep" I mean I laid down wide-eyed and waited for the next incident.)

This whole scenario took about 30 minutes...meanwhile my hubby was just laying there "sound asleep". I literally had to push him over to get the sheets off/back on. Of course he wasn't asleep-who could sleep through that!? Grrrr. But I played along and let him act oblivious.

About 45 minutes later it happened-then about every 45 minutes for the rest of the night. Yesterday morning he was okay, although he did throw up a couple more times. YAY! I think we are officially in the clear now. Now I'm just praying he keeps those germs to himself and doesn't spread it to the rest of the family. I'm not sure my husband would survive until morning if I had 3 puking kids at one time and he "slept" through it all.

Since the sickness had run it's course I figured we could make bird feeders as a way to get outside and have fun without over-doing it. Making bird feeders is fun and easy...in theory. We simply spread peanut butter on some pine cones and hang them from the little tree in our front yard. Sounds cute, right? WRONG!! We spread peanut butter not only on the pine cones, but on ourselves, the driveway, the kids' hair, the side of the car, the cat who stupidly walked up to see what we were doing. Baby Luke grabbed the pinecones and threw them everywhere so they were covered in dirt and leaves instead of bird seed (no wonder the birds seem unimpressed!). I would have taken photos, but I feared for my camera's life.

We had some birdseed in a plastic bag and we stuck the pine cones in the bag, Shake-n-Bake style. That was simple enough, but in the end we attracted more birds to the grass then to our feeders.

It was fun despite the chaos and mess. By far the most fun I've ever had with a jar of peanut butter. Tomorrow we're making crayons!! Too bad we can't do that outside...