That night around 12:30a I heard Maile cry out. Maile and Beck had both thrown up. OMG, I gave my kids food poisoning. After doing a quick clean up, Hansel slept with Beck in our room (he threw up many more times that night), and I slept with Maile in a guest room. Maile only got sick one other time. When I entered our room the next morning to feed Mathis, there was Beck sitting on a sleeping Hansel. After a very light breakfast, both kids got sick. That was the last of it for Beck. But Maile got sick one more time that evening.
That night musical beds continued, but this time we had both kids in our room. Beck, who still sleeps in a crib, slept in our closet on a mat. He got up several times during the night, running out of the closet and then back in. Then very early in the morning, he insisted on sleeping with us. Meanwhile, Mathis had caught a cold from Beck and was not sleeping as soundly at night.
The next day I took Beck and Mathis with me to Palo Alto's development center to submit revisions. Although Beck was quite active (a gentleman there even pointed out a box of crayons and books to me thinking the distraction would help), he did pretty well. At least I thought so. The clerk told him to be quiet when she first talked to me. I think she felt bad about it because she was a lot nicer later.
I then dropped Beck off at school. When I dropped him off, I remembered I would need to bring stuff to school the next day to celebrate Beck's birthday. I found out I would need to come at 3:30p. After lunch, I took Mathis and Maile to Palo Alto's Dev Center because they only had time to process revisions for one of the permits in the morning. The people I met with were definitely amused by my rotating kids. The plan check person could not approve our revisions until I confirmed there was footing under a post we added. I unfortunately did not have my phone. So, I stopped by the Harker house to get my answer.
Thursday was Beck's birthday, so the night before I ran out to get pancake mix, mini-muffins for his class, and a single-serving cake for Beck. Thursday morning, I made Mickey Mouse pancakes for the first time. I've made pancakes before but not Mickey Mouse ones. They turned out pretty well; they actually looked like the mouse. We then put candles in the cake and sang Beck Happy Birthday. He blew out each candle one by one. He then opened a gift from us, which was a train conducter outfit. For some reason he didn't want to wear it. He just wanted to play with the accessories. We thought if Maile wore it, he'd want to wear it. But Beck didn't fall for it.
That morning Maile was well enough to make it to swim class. I told a staff member that she just recovered from food poisoning and might need to take it easy. She ended up having the most active class because she was the only student in her group. The other three were absent.
After dropping the kids off at school, I quickly went to Diddams by their school to get goodies for Beck's class as well as for his small family party on Saturday. I then went home to feed Mathis and eat lunch before heading back to Palo Alto's Dev Center. This time I only took Mathis. The revisions for the second permit were approved just in time for our inspection scheduled for the next day. I then drove back to Beck's school for his school party.
The school party was simple. The teachers passed out the muffins, the kids sang Happy Birthday in English and Chinese, and then Beck passed out the goody bags. He didn't realize until the end that he could pick up two bags at once. He had been passing them out one by one. I also noticed that when he gave a classmate a bag he would give it to them on the right. Natural born waiter I guess.
Both Hansel and I picked up the kids from school and then took them to the Old Spaghetti Factory in downtown San Jose for Beck's birthday. We decided to eat there because it's family friendly, very affordable, and we had a coupon for free garlic cheese bread. Beck, oddly enough, didn't really eat anything except for his frozen fruit bar.
Since Friday was rainy and the rest of the weekend was forecasted to be rainy, Hansel and I figured we should find an indoor location for Beck's family birthday party. We had planned to have a picnic at Oak Meadow Park in Los Gatos, which has a kids train and carousel. I was thinking about Bounce-a-Rama at the Great Mall, but then my cousin-in-law suggested the children's store, Little Stompers, in downtown Los Altos. She hadn't been there but had heard about it. They have a play area, which can be rented for playdates/parties. I checked it out, and we decided the novelty of the play area was worth the cost and not having to clean our house. So, I booked the Stompers Room for 1.5 hrs for Saturday. That night and the next morning I made Beck's cake. It was in the shape of Thomas the Tank Engine. I can never figure out how to frost a cake without getting bits of cake in the frosting.
Saturday morning part way through breakfast, Maile suddenly looked green and said she didn't feel well. I suggested she take a nap. With Maile not feeling well and one of my cousin's emailing to say that one of her son's wouldn't make it because of an ear infection, Hansel and I went back and forth on whether or not to reschedule the party. We had pretty much decided to reschedule, but I continued to pack things up for the party just in case. Maile woke from her nap saying she felt better, so we piled everything and everyone into the car. Hansel dropped me off at the store with Mathis and all the stuff, and then he took Maile and Beck to pick up the balloons.
My cousin's wife, Yura, came with Russell, and another cousin's wife, Christy, came with Marcus and Lucas. My cousin Rich came later. When Hansel finally came back with the kids and the balloons, he said that Maile wasn't feeling well. She sat and laid down on some chairs for a little while, but then Hansel ended up just taking her home.
The boys had fun with all the new toys, esp the car/train table (of course). Toward the end of lunch, Beck started coughing and then said his tummy hurt. He wasn't looking so good, so I grabbed a bowl just in time to catch his you-know-what. He seemed fine after and even wanted to eat an apple. I knew we had to wrap things up at this point, so we quickly played the pin-the-number on Thomas game and had cake.
Marcus peeked a little under his hat.
Lucas couldn't figure out why his daddy kept covering his eyes.
Beck did it without peeking. His 1 was the farthest.
We had an issue with the store when we left, which you can read about at Yelp http://www.yelp.com/biz/little-stompers-los-altos.
Maile had a low-grade fever all weekend and pretty much stayed in bed. I took Maile to the doctor Monday afternoon by which time she was back to her old self although she still had a low fever. The doctor offered to test her urine, which took forever for me to get. Maile is not very good at peeing under pressure. Maile and her pee for the most part checked out okay. The next day she went back to school.
During this time, we continued to play Musical Beds until Tuesday night, when she slept in one of the guest rooms by herself. She sometimes doesn't like to sleep with Beck because he keeps her up. Since Maile had been waking up in the middle of the night crying, I had suggested earlier in the day that she sleep with a magic wand to keep bad things away. She asked if it was real, and I said it would keep the bad things away if she believed it. This morning I asked her if sleeping with the wand helped. She said she only used it once.
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