pumpkins, swollen lip, Lenny...

So Jack tested positive for H1N1 (swell) then Karee woke with a fever and Kara ended up with a fever (double swell). After everyone took long naps, we decided on Friday night to carve our pumpkins. Karee always does a great job and takes a lot of pride in his pumpkin carving skills. During all of this, Libby found and ate a wasp. I had to call our vet for the dose of Benadry. The Benadryl did not make her sleepy. I was planning on giving her a dose daily if it did just in case she decided to eat another wasp or stinging insect.Halloween went pretty well. With the exception of Princess not feeling well so she screamed...she screamed a lot....she screamed over everything. That high pitched scream makes me want to run away. It's always, always worse when Karee is around. I have NO IDEA why...
Kara on sugar. We had never seen Kara all hyped up on sugar before. She is typically calm with moments of insanity thrown in here and there. Last night she was blabbering like a fool, running, running into walls, hugging on Jack constantly, then when Fred came out she gets all Lenny (from Mice & Men) on us. "KITTY!" She yells as her bottom jaw protrudes out (with the big gap in the middle) and she has to pull the cats paws, kiss him on the lips, wants to hold him very tight by his neck, her entire body shakes with excitement. Easy Lenny, easy!


My dad asked me why Kara wasn't dressed as a princess this year. I had to explain to him that Kara is a princess the other 364 days of the year...she wanted to be something different for Halloween. We settled on the tiger costume for her. Jack was Woody from Toy Story and Grant was a bumble bee. The kids did seem to enjoy their scavenger hunt. It was very short because it was cold and I didn't want everyone out for long. It sucked the life out of the 5 of us though. Had we done anything else, we might all be in a coma. We all went to bed at 9 or was it 8...hell with the time change I have no idea but I believe it was early for us!