Easter this year was a tough holiday. Starting Thursday evening Dillon had a fever, in the middle of the night it progressed to vomiting and by Friday morning he had a cough too. He was sick through friday, through that night and was still throwing up Saturday. So we put off egg coloring for as long as possible. When he had a period were he was feeling a little better, and he said he wanted to do it, we did the coloring.
Having a sick little one definitely saps the fun out of it. Kayda and Carson of course had fun dipping their eggs, we used the "neon" colors this year and they turned out a lot brighter which the kids all loved. Dillon got to play supervisor and just told Daddy what he wanted done most of the time. By Saturday night 4/5 of us had fevers. Daddy was holding out.
Sunday morning, Kayda was already sick, she has had a fever and a cough but it doesn't seem to do much more than make her sleepy. She was the first one up and ready for Easter. Due to the boys being up off and on throughout the night we went ahead and let her start without them.
The kids had to find the eggs with their first initial again which made it extra tough for Kayda. The boys weren't there to narrow it down at all so she found many eggs that weren't hers and had to pass them by.
Finally the boys woke up and wanted to come downstairs. Dillon had been sick through the night again, waking up frequently. He tried to come down once but was too dizzy so this was the second attempt. Carson was up with hot and cold spells, and of course he was always running opposite whatever Mommy was experiencing at that time. (It's really hard to take a hot shower with your freezing little one when you're having a hot flash)
Despite being sick Carson didn't seem down at all. He popped right up and was ready for egg hunting. Later he took a couple short naps but most of his illness has been evident during the night with the extreme temperature issues.
Dillon was trying to hard, wanting so badly to do his egg hunt but his body would just not cooperate. We ended up pulling all his eggs and putting them in the fridge with the understanding that as soon as he felt well we would put them back where the Easter bunny had hidden them. A few hours later and a couple false starts he was feeling well enough to do the hunt. Then he was laying back down, still not feeling well.
We still haven't managed to have Easter dinner while we wait for everyone to feel well enough to eat it. Despite the illness I think the kids enjoyed their Easter.
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