Sick Family

Since we came back from vacation it has been a rough week.  I tried giving Cooper cereal twice this past week and both times he woke up around 2:30 am covered in throw up.  Enough that I had to change his pj's and sheets.  Then over the weekend we all woke up not feeling well.  Some sort of a head cold.  Charlotte's been waking up several times at night and Cooper can't sleep for more than 45 minutes at a time because he's so stuffed up.  I tried breastmilk up the nose, and it worked okay, but he's still congested.  Christopher and I are both exhausted on not feeling well either.  This picture of Cooper about sums up how we are all feeling:

(Of course we are hoping that it is not the 4/5 month and 8/9  month wakeful period we are experiencing on top of not feeling well.)

And to give you an update on the crockpot meals, from the Crockpot Blog.  The 3 Packet Pot Roast is delicious and full of flavor...we added carrots and potatoes, yum!  The Layered Steak and Potatoes Dinner is also awesome, especially the corn on the cob.  We recommend using more flavoring for the meat, and lower quality steak.  The Jamaican Salmon was by far my favorite!  It had excellent flavor, cooked quickly, the fish was cooked perfectly, and it was easy clean up.  We only used 1/8 of tsp of the cayenne pepper.  Chris said he would have liked it a little more spicy, but I thought it was perfect.  The French Toast was just plain gross.  It was a soggy mess and didn't taste much like french toast.  Maybe more like a bread pudding?  I did like the nuts and brown sugar on it though, so I might try traditional french toast done this way.

Okay, off to bed in hopes of feeling better tomorrow!