Those Olympic athletes have nothing on me...
Lion had a temp all morning, just a little one, he just said it was because the weather was hot so I kept doing what needed to be done. We came home and he was just chillin' and we were reading books and having a quiet morning together with no TV on and decided to wrap Christmas gifts and all of a sudden he went green, looked up at me and said those words... "I don't feel good".
I stand up, knocking my chair back, all the while scanning the room Macgyver style for what I can use. I spot a plastic toy box between Lion and I, I shove aside the highchair, it tips slightly but doesn't fall (the baby was in bed, asleep) I put one hand on Lion's shoulder and start herding him towards the tiles while I bend over and with the other hand I grab the toybox, tip the toys out and place the toybox in Lion's hands... we make it onto the tiles and he goes to do what he thinks will be a cough... but mummy knows better and moves the toybox closer to him... yep, there it is.
It's strange... at that point I should be annoyed that we have another vomiting bug, I should be feeling defeated at the thought of all the vomit I will likely have to deal with over the coming hours and days... instead I feel like a champion... I caught this one... well, not caught as in, I have the vomiting bug too, but caught as in IT LANDED IN THE BUCKET!!!
When they start up the Mammalympics I'll be representing Australia for vomit catching... it's a prestigious event...
Now where's my 14 bottles of pine-o-clean I have stashed away for our next Vomitageddon... because it's here!
Gold Medal stuff.
ReplyDeleteVomitgedden, buwhahaha! I love your posts. Here's hoping you be through it before Christmas.
It certainly is an achievement worthy of a medal.
ReplyDeleteI have a stash of the hospital vomit bags. We have better success with those.
Hope he's feeling better soon.
Good for you for keeping a sense of humour about this!!!! Now that alone is worth a medal. :) xx
ReplyDeleteMotherhood does require ingenuity. I could have written this same post a couple of weeks ago!
ReplyDeleteI'll humm your national anthem quietly for you. Quietly, because I don't know it. But I'll still sing for you.. You are my hero!
ReplyDeleteHopefully the bug doesn't last long.
Luvs
Suz
You deserve a Gold Medal! Those are champion mommy moment to recognize the signs and catch it in time. Things we would never have imagine ourselves doing before kids aye?
ReplyDeleteI hope he feels better soon and that nobody else catches it. I can't tell you how bad I feel for all of you!
LOL - We had a vomarathon one time - everyone retching violently (the oldest condescendinly pointing out that noone retches that loud - how ridiculous - until he started - and retched the longest - and loudly). My didn't rotation didn't hit until after I taught my morning classes, picked up a little gel phenagran(sp) from the dr. When the nausea hit, both baby and I just got a little gel rub on the wrists, WaLa! No nausea - just napped through it. However, retchingx7 is never fun - especially when it's 3 to 6 hour every 15 minute intervals!
ReplyDeleteHope you feel better soon! Congrats on creating a new olympic sport! I totally agree!
Well done! Gold medal performance!
ReplyDeleteI hope you all recover quickly!
Have a happy Christmas with your precious family
Renata:)