Cookies, Movement and the Flu

Keep in mind, this isn't even all of the cookies.

Here's a closer look. Some of them are really cute, but notice the amount of candy and frosting on some of them. Its like a cavity waiting to happen!

Saturday was our final primary party with this year's Valiant 11 class. Every week the kids get points (1-10) based on how well they behaved during class. Then when the class reaches 100 points, we have a party. Our first class party was games at our house, then we combined two parties and had a swimming/pizza party, and on Saturday we decorated holiday cookies and brought them to the primary presidency. So Friday after work, Matt and I made 116 sugar cookies. It seems like a lot, I know. We wanted to have enough for the kids to be able to eat some while they decorated, plus enough for them to bring some home to their families, and enough for the five people we were taking them to in the ward. The kids had a blast! Although the cookies started out with so much frosting and candy on top, the average person would not be able to fit in in their mouth! The goal among the boys was "I'm going to make this so gross that no one will want to eat it!" Awesome. I think the favorite part of the day was leaving the cookies on the porches and getting to doorbell ditch the primary leaders. Then we played Catch Phrase at our house until their parents came and it was hilarious! Watching six kids, hopped up on sugar, screaming out details to get the rest of us to say a word. Sobaka and Kutse also enjoyed the party very much! Not only did they get a special treat of chocolate chips (stopped that one real quick) but the kids had a blast playing tug-o-war and wrestling with them. Sobaka was passed out for the rest of the night. Whereas Kutse seems to gain strength from being played with and was bouncing off the walls the rest of the night.

I wasn't feeling very good on Saturday, and had to sit down a lot, but I put on a happy face so we could enjoy the party. But as the night progressed, I felt worse and worse. I couldn't keep anything down (which hasn't been a problem for weeks). Matt went to the Real game with his sister that night and Breezy came over to have a girl's night. I felt bad she spent the evening having to listen to me vomit instead. But, thinking it was just a bad pregnancy day, I pushed through and we did end up having a good time. We got some dinner, played Mario Party, and then watched a few episodes of Gilmore girls. After Matt got home from the game, I got a lot worse and ended up crashing in bed. Sunday I woke up with a fever and spent the next two days in bed. Turns out I had the stomach flu. And yes, I even followed the advice from my doctor and got a flu shot a couple weeks ago. But as she explained to me at my appointment, the flu shot is for the respiratory flu and I got a different strand of the stomach flu. I'm just lucky I guess! Now I really hope, after making all those cookies the night before, that six children in my neighborhood don't come down with a case of the flu. However, as Matt pointed out, their parents will just think they got it at school. =) But now Matt is sick in bed today. He wasn't feeling good yesterday or the night before, but was so sick this morning he couldn't fight it anymore and had to stay in bed. Poor guy!

As for the baby update, since I get asked several times a day, I felt it move for the first time last week. Very cool! But weird too. I've felt it move a few times since then. It always happens at night when I'm laying in bed. Probably because I'm holding still enough that I can actually notice it. I had a few people describe it to me like a butterfly in your stomach. But it didn't feel anything like a butterfly to me. I can't describe it, but it felt stronger than that.

Well, that was our weekend. How was yours?