Surrender To The Sickness

It is not humanly possible to be sick this often. Once again the whole family is sick with yet another mucus ruling, coughing fit, achey body cold. We have picked up every bug, virus, and infection on the central coast. I'm just waiting to come down with The Plague at this point. Martin and I can count on our digits how many days we have been WELL during the past 3 months. I remember when my sisters kids were little I would always get sick after hanging around them, so I should have been a little better mentally prepared for this. My sister cheered me up a bit by letting me know that this will only go on for the next 3 years or so and then we'll get a break for just a little bit until Nolan starts school where we'll go through this all over again for another couple of years. But by then we'll (hopefully) have more little snot noses running around the house and we'll look back fondly on the days that we only had to look after one sick kid.

Since we literally have not left the house since Thursday (Friday for Martin), here's a recap of happier times.

Pictures from Nolan's Birthday:

"A pony! Seriously, I got a pony for my birthday!"

The Birthday Babies: In my mom's group we have 7 babies that were all born within 23 days of each other. These are our March babies. The birthday party was a group "Baby's First Birthday", which happily fell on Nolan's actual birthday.

Nolan's First Cake - Whole wheat carrot cake and a dab of cream cheese frosting, all baked from scratch. Special note: It was my first cake as a baby, the same recipe my mom used.

I may have made the babies heart shape cakes but I have to bow down to Jermey & his wife + staff at Eclair Bakery that made the oh so yummy Chocolate Espresso Cake for the adults.

Nolan and Mommy...ahhh!