sick of being sick!

the one thing i never thought about before having 3 kids was that the length of any illness is times by 5 as we all slowly catch it off each other! i had some sort of hideous sinus infection last week but made it through my three days of work only to walk into a weekend of sneezing, wheezing and coughing by my 3 year old and husband. the baby was coughing so much that she vomited several times and let me tell you almost 3 year olds don't have good aim. no matter how well set up she was with towels covering every surface of her bed and bucket within reach, she still managed to get the pillow, carpet and anything else within wakingwhilecoughingandvomiting distance. why do babies do that? why do they walk and vomit at the same time? why don't they make a nice neat pile of it?

anyhow as mr moo and claudia slowly recovered poor old lili was knocked to the ground with it. monday was a holiday, by which time mick and claudia were showing signs of improvement but poor old lili hit the deck that night and mick took tuesday off to take them all to the doctor only to be told they didnt need antibiotics just ventolin. oh lili is on a course of steroids as her asthma was quite bad. mia has conjunctivitis so i had to stay home on wednesday! lili and mick are back at work and school and the two youngest are at home with me slowly getting better.

phew! in amidst all of that wheezing, sneezing and coughing the girls stitched a few more things. they might just become my mothers day presents i think :)

lili put some lavender in this one and a ribbon to hang her anywhere.

i drew the picture and she stitched almost all of it. she even did the button which she thought was dead easy!

and she chose my lovely violet fabric for the back.

mia started to stitch this kokeshi doll but i think i did more than she did.

she chose the backing fabric and i made her sew it up and fill it all by herslef.

here she is with her two softies!

aren't they sweet. they almost look like saints :) like butter wouldn't melt in their mouth!

i am hoping that this is the only bout of illness we get this cold season but something tells me this is only the beginning...

%*_*% rosey