Medicine is Magical

After a night and a day of puking it was quite refreshing to wake up Jack this morning having had no problems through the night. The first thing he said to me was "John, that pink medicine is magical". He was referencing the Pepto I gave him last night prior to going to bed. It made me laugh and was great to see that winning personality first thing in the morning. He had woken up yesterday morning all spunky as well and then after an hour was feeling terrible. I decided that I would not take him to church today so as to make sure he was fine. Natty is good to watch the kids for one to two hours and she said she wasn't feeling the best so rather then sending her with Jay and Sara I ran to sacrament meeting and the kids stayed home. All went perfectly well.

I don't know how bad Natty was actually feeling this morning but she was the one in the fam that has not yet been sick so there was the strong possibility that it could happen. Well, that possibility became reality and Natty has been sickly since the early afternoon. She has thrown up a few times. She asked for a blessing and she has been doing well for the last 4 hours. I did give her some of that magical pink medicine as well. I am really hoping this is all the same stuff that Andy had a week and a half ago and that I had at the for a few days this last week. I feel quite fortunate that I did not throw up - I don't like that. I didn't even use the magical pink medicine. What can I say? I must be some sort of stud. Yes, a stud that only has to clean up the puke left by his kids - now I have to weigh this? Would I rather spend a day puking and never have to clean up after my kids or never puke personally but have to clean up all my kids vomit? That is a tough call.

In other fun conversation with Jack he told me that I am plump. Here I just got finished bragging about my shorts that now fit in my last post and my son sets me right back into place. That is good though. I have been a little too lax on the sugar intake over the last two weeks and need to buckle down. I am not out pounding sugar or anything but just want to stay in control. Well, see what happened was I bought a jar of Nutella. Oh that is a heavenly hazelnut spread. You would think the number one ingredient in a hazelnut spread would be hazelnuts - not so. It is sugar. There are 21 grams of sugar and 200 calories per serving. That is not so heavenly. I need them to come up with a Nutella Zero. Wow, can you imagine? I would live off of that stuff.

Yeah so anyway, I am plump. "That's nice to say John" is what Jack told me when my face soured a skosh. I love Jack. He can only do one thing and that is tell it like it is. I love his pure mind and his love of life, the simple things of life. I had set up Andy to do some painting today and when he was done he starting mixing all the remaining colors on the tray I had him using. There was still a bit of paint on there and when I began to clean up there were a couple of blank papers sitting on the table. For fun I put some paint on the brush and painted a train. It wasn't all that great but Andy was enjoying it and Jack was reslly excited about it. He told me that I was a very good artist. See there, I may be plump but I am a good artist - I paint the best trains. Thanks big Jack.

Sure do love Natty, Jack and Andy. Hoping tonight that we are through this mess known as illness.