Today was Phoebe’s birthday party with our families. It was a nice time for everyone. :) We were also surprised with a visit from Rob, Kira, Henry and Lilly who were in from Colorado for the weekend.

Friday night marked the opening of a production of “The Music Man” which Alex is a part of. She started this ride back in January with auditions and there has been some ups and downs (not unusual) along the way.

Despite not feeling well (illness are abound among the cast, including strep, a stomach virus among others), she did a fantastic job. While I had not planned on letting her stay home from school on Friday (like some others planned to do), she did end up staying home. She was running a low grade fever and had a horribly sore throat. Considering the level of exposure to strep, I did take her to get screened and fortunately it was negative. The current thought is that she got run down with all the rehearsals and school and staying up WAY too late WAY too often not getting quite enough rest combined with allergies ramping up (tis the season–well, one of them). By Saturday afternoon she was feeling much better which is good since there were two shows on Saturday!

Ray had been recruited to help out with the stage crew so he had been at rehearsal on Thursday to get all orientated. He worked the Saturday matinee show as well as today’s matinee. I hung out for the Saturday evening show as “green room monitor,” but really all I did was return a few hair pieces to their owners (after they fell out on the floor) and mend a few gloves.

Poor Phoebe isn’t really involved in this show. Don’t feel too badly for her however. She is in Cinderella and they are well under way for shows in June. Besides, she spent the Saturday matinee time at a pool party for a friend and today’s matinee time shopping (which she loves! unless its the grocery type)!

Ray, Phoebe and I attended the show on opening night. It was fantastic and the cast and crew really did a great job! The have one more weekend of shows then it will come to an end, which will made everyone (even now just thinking about it) very sad. I wish I had more photos (or, really, any) to share, but it was difficult to see any seeing as how the production’s photographer was one of the leads in the show.

Wishing everyone a Happy Easter (or Wonderful Sunday) however you plan to spend it.

First up, my girl is back home from her band trip to New York this morning:

Actually, just before I left the house to go wait for the buses to roll in, Phoebe decided she had waited long enough. While the bunny didn’t hide candy filled eggs around the house this year, Phoebe hunted down some HUGE plastic eggs – each with a Littlest Pet Shop creature inside! Then she perused her Easter Basket… then, I left.

After a couple of hours back at home, we all headed over to Ray’s Aunt’s house for an Easter get together. We had an amazingly good time, though it would have been much better had it not been so windy, but I won’t quibble over that.

Happy Easter // Happy Sunday!

The girls’ spring break started officially today after a half day of school.

While Alex is somewhere in Central Park in New York City, I took Phoebe to see How to Train Your Dragon in 3D this afternoon! It was an incredibly great movie! I loved it. She really loved it and wanted to see it again right then. AND – she has plans to OWN it too.

This evening had parent teacher conferences at all of the schools and while we only went determined to see one specific teacher, the shocking thing was more that nearly every time we turned a corner in a hallway at the high school there were kids making out. Yeah, so not ready for that. I doubt I ever will be. After all, my girls are still way too young and innocent for that! I’m know I’m living in an imaginary world sure of that.

After that bit of educational delight (not the conference itself, the other stuff), Phoebe had rehearsal to go to. She did extremely well and is finally starting to reign herself in and down a little and be focused on the task at hand.

Alex even finally called us later too! Her phone had died (silly girl didn’t charge it the night before leaving!) and she had to wait until she could plug it in. She was having an amazing time so far, but was really tired. I cannot imagine why: they rode on buses overnight the whole way to NYC and then jumped right into their day of activities and touring. They didn’t check into their hotel until around 8:00 pm! Poor thing sounded dreadfully exhausted, yet elated to be there. I can’t wait to see her back home, hear her stories about the trip and (hopefully) see a lot of photos and videos!

I admit it. I was feeling antsy that I hadn’t heard from her. Even a text that they made it there would have sufficed for a time. She is my first baby after all. She’ll always be that. Always.

And that’s no April fools…

I want to wish my awesome Dad a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I love you, Daddy!

So, here I went and said we were on the upswing!

HA!

Little did I know that mere hours after writing that post, I would be the next to succumb to the nasties of a stomach virus. Sparing you the gross ugly details, for me, it lasted roughly 20 hours. After that, was the repercussions of having been through it.

Ray was having the joys of massive sinus drainage that was causing him to near vomit if he did stay on top of getting it out rather than down his throat. Oh boy.

Phoebe was perhaps the only one to feel great yesterday. I felt terrible that no one was well enough to take her to her dance classes yesterday morning, but, well, that’s the way the cookie crumbled this weekend.

Today was a different story, however. Phoebe awoke with a fever. Running right around 103.4…

Great… I ended up giving her too much Motrin (which is the actual dose she should get… just makes her hyper lately) so she didn’t rest as much as she should have. Although, the fever was done (not gone), and she was fairly rambunctious, she was not her sparkly self…

Both Ray and I did end up leaving the house today, which was a good thing. He took Alex to her band rehearsal. I went and picked her up then we got some food from Subway (note to self: Chinese place AND Quiznos here are both CLOSED on Sundays).

Shortly before bedtime, you guessed it, Phoebe’s fever shot back up to 103.6, only about thirteen hours after that ONE dose of Motrin this morning. She fell asleep quickly and early.

I hope this doesn’t last too long. Good thing the girls don’t have school tomorrow (professional development day…whatever).