Brielle & The Stomach Flu

My poor little girl has had the stomach flu since Friday! This is the second time she's got it in her short little life! I hate seeing her so sick. It's not too bad when she's active and playing but pretty much all day yesterday she was just blah! No energy...all she wanted to do was sit there, cuddle and sleep. And if you know Brielle well enough, she is NOT that way! You know something is definitely wrong if she is acting that way. She was really shaky and pale. Last night, when we checked her temperature, it was 103 and that was under her armpit. (They say to add another degree or two on top of that when you don't do it orally.) Scott and I decided to take her into the ER. We wanted to get an accurate reading of her temperature. When we got there the doctor said what we already knew, but it was reassuring. Her temperature was 101, which is much better than 103. We had given her some Motrin before, so it had probably already kicked in. Anyway, I honestly got the worst pain in my chest, I was so worried about my little baby. I get so stressed out when my kids get sick!!! Today was a much better day, she had a few accidents and I had to bathe her 3 times! We didn't go to Church today, we didn't want to get any of the Nursery kids sick. The stomach flu is highly contagious! Hopefully tomorrow she is back to her cheerful, active, curious little self! That's what makes her Brielle!

Blowing kisses!

The Tricycle

Scott's mom bought the cutest tricycle for the kids to play with when they come to her house. Brielle loved it and Braden HAD to try it too. The tricycle was a hit!

I've been tagged!!!

My dear old roommate Adrienne tagged me. I guess I'm supposed to come up with 6 things/habits that people might not know about me. Man! I think these are going to be hard to come up with!...

1. The first one that comes to mind is that I am really 4 feet 11 inches and 3/4. I tell people I'm 5 feet tall but I'm really not. I've always been the shortest one. In grade school I was the shortest in my grade, in high school my nickname was "shorty". I've had tons of roommates and I've always been the shortest one. I really don't mind it for the most part except when I'm trying to reach for something in the cupboards and I can't reach it! It's quite annoying to have to bring a chair to able to get what I need. Another negative of being short is pants! Buying pants is not my favorite thing to do...but overall being short is AWESOME!

2. You might think this is totally OCD, but when I take a shower I have an order of when I do things. I first shampoo my hair, then I wash my body, then I rinse my body and then my hair. I put conditioner on my hair, then, I wash my face and lastly I rinse my hair again. I ALWAYS follow that order, always! Otherwise it drives nuts!

3. This might be another OCD one, I have to have my house clean before I go to bed! I cannot leave dishes in the sink or not pick up after the kids and just leave everything a mess. It drives me CRAZY!!!! I have to get up to clean house the next day!

4. Dude! You guys are totally going to think I'm OCD, Scott thinks this one is TOTALLY weird! I cannot go to bed if my bed isn't made. I will make my bed (if it hasn't been made) before I go to sleep!

5. When Scott and I watch movies or shows at home I most likely will fall asleep. It drives Scott crazy! I'm always asking him the next morning, "What happened, how did it end?" and this is how our conversation goes:
Scott: "I'm not gonna tell you, you have to watch it"
Denisse: "honey, just tell me, what happened"
Scott: "Why did you fall asleep?"
Denisse: "I was exhausted, I'm a busy mom you know?
Scott: "You're always tired!"
Denisse: "Just tell me!"
Then he proceeds to tell me the ending! It totally drives him bunkers! Oh well!

6. I really was born in Brasil and not Perú....j/k... no I was really born in Perú in Lima to be exact, in a city called Miraflores to be more exact in a clinic called "Hogar de la Madre" to be even more exact!... Anyway, I don't know what else...I think I'm ready to move on from Rexburg. I have been here since 1999! YES! It will be 9 years by the time we leave! Almost a decade! I have truly loved it here, great things have happened to me here, but man! Am I ready to have more than a Wal-Mart to shop from! The one here in Rexburg is not even a Super Wal-Mart! A little bit more diversity would be nice too! When we were in DC it was awesome! We saw so many different ethnicities. I loved it! Don't get me wrong! I LOVE Idaho! But I think it is time to spice things up a little!

Now I have to tag 6 people, the lucky winners are: Daija, Stacey, Saralyn, Kara, Brittany and Terrilyn.

The Rules
1. The player lists 6 facts/habits about themselves - try to find 6 you haven't already posted about.
2. At the end of the post, the player tags 6 people and posts their names, and then goes to their blog and leaves them a comment, letting them know they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog for the rules.

More of Washington D.C.

Washington D.C.

Scott and I had a much needed little vacation. He had an interview at GWU so we decided that it would be nice if I came with him. I mean an opportunity like this doesn't come very often. So we planned everything and went. Kara (my sis-in-law) watched Brielle and Braden for the 4 days we were gone, I think it was quite the experience for her. We have decided that Brielle is a handful!!! So Scott and I left last Thursday, got to to the hotel late that night and Friday morning Scott headed to his interview and I met him there when he was done. His interview went somewhat okay. He had 2 separate interviews, one with a second year med student (this interview went excellent) and the other one with this guy from India, who according to Scott had no social skills whatsoever. Scott felt drilled with questions the whole time and the guy seemed uninterested in getting to know him. Oh well...we flew across the country to have a socially backward man interview him! Needless to say, Scott felt like it didn't go as he wanted it to go...so who knows what will happen. Afterward, we went to the Holocaust Museum, it was quite impacting for both of us, quite interesting and heartbreaking. We went to the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument. Later that night, we went to one of my favorite restaurants!!!! The CheeseCake Factory!!!!! I love that place!!!! We decided to drive there instead of taking the metro, it wasn't the brightest idea...we got lost and what was supposed to take 30 minutes took an hour and a half and the same thing happened driving back to the hotel. If we move there we definitely need a GPS!!!

Here we are at the Washington Monument. Those are huge blocks of stone. It is very impressive!

I love this picture because of the beautiful sky. I have to say that I fell in love with Washington DC. It's beautiful, it's a big city, the people are so friendly, I loved riding the metro, there is so much to do and most of it is FREE! It can't get any better than that!

I guess I'll claim Florida, I really should have claimed Idaho, I've lived in Idaho longer than I have in Florida.

The Lincoln Memorial was amazing! When you see it in pictures you don't realize how majestic it really is! We had a tour guide, who was very knowledgeable, and at first we thought he was awesome and he was but he talked FOREVER! We were standing there for an hour and a half! Oh man! We sure learned a lot about Lincoln!

We walked by GWU later that night, Scott was still wearing his suit.

The Air and Space Museum. It was very interesting! Scott's favorite place! He could have spent days there!

This was really neat, the airplane behind me is the very first airplane that the Wright brothers flew! It was amazing!

Pluto is no more, it is now considered a "dwarf planet". We had heard about that, but it was interesting to read about it.

Here is The White House behind us. It is very beautiful and white even though it doesn't seem that way in this picture.