sick sick sick

Well, Ali and I seem to be virus magnets this year. Combined I think we have gotten every illness that has been around. Right now we are both coughing, nose-blowing and sleeping phlegm factories. She has a fever, I may, and we are laying low. Thank goodness for the long weekend, an extra day to rest. I think I am keeping Ali out of day care and swim lessons tomorrow, she has to get over all of this! I think I sent her back too early last week, her immune system was down and she picked this one up. Ugh!

My baby's 5

My sweet girl turned 5 today. I can not believe how fast time flies. Here is one of her last 4 year old pictures:

As you can probably tell from her paleness, she was sick all weekend. She woke up at 3:30 am Friday throwing up, and it lasted all weekend pretty much. She was able to keep liquids down by Friday night, but the little she ate Saturday came back up Saturday night. Sunday night she ate some crackers and kept them down, so she had a half day at preschool today, her big day.

Her big day started out with a 6:30 am call from Afghanistan, Daddy didn't want to miss the chance to talk to his big 5 year old. From there it was off to preschool, where she had a party at lunch. After lunch Nindy picked her up, and when she got home, she had received flowers, balloons and a stuffed bear from Daddy! She spent the afternoon with Nindy, Bubby and Auntie. On my way home from work I picked up pizza and we had Nana join all of us for a little party. Here is Ali when we sang "Happy Birthday:
And blowing out the candles:


Like the cake? Ali wanted cupcakes, so I let her pick out the mix (the confetti vanilla one), the frosting (pink vanilla with sprinkles) and we even found heart shaped muffin tins.

Happy Birthday baby girl!