Sickness abounds in our house lately. MI suffered a horrible head cold all weekend long. She continues have problems with her nose. Sometimes her head gets so congested that I know she has to be in agony. She's been a real trooper through all of this. Although, she did bite another child at school yesterday. DQ has had a cold too. Her's brought on a bit of larygnitis. It was fun to listen to her as she tried to talk. Oddly enough ST hasn't had anything abnormal. Just the normal allergy stuff.

Now PF is down. He's at home today. He's dizzy. I forgot to get the bed table out for him. I didn't want him walking around since he resembles a pin ball bouncing off the bumpers. I'm worried he's going to end up tilting.

Wondering about me? Well, I feel okay. As long as I don't bend down or roll over while laying down. It feels like it did when I had BPV. So I'm sure I'm having an inner ear issue. I'm just not sure whether it is caused by a virus or if it is BPV. If it is BPV it will last way to long and get progressively worse. Luckily if that happens I know what I will need to do, and I won't need to spend money at the doctor's office.

Another thing that is new is ST is getting an appliance to try to break the thumb sucking habit. The issue here is that her thumb is preventing her big teeth to come in properly. If we can break the habit then the teeth will come in well and perhaps we won't need to get her braces. I weighed the situation and decided it was worth a try. So ST has been going to the orthodontist for the last 2 weeks. Yesterday they made a mold of her mouth.

ST's appointment was too early to get DQ out of school, too. I spent the morning yesterday trying to figure out what to do with DQ. I finally decided to take advantage of the school's transportation system. DQ road the bus home. I'm now realizing I never got my house keyes back from her. I hope they are in the house or somewhere else that is safe. DQ felt so special riding the bus home from school. ST was so out of sorts about not getting to ride the bus home from school. I kept telling her that her time would come. Although I don't feel very comfortable about giving her the house keyes. I'm afraid she would loose them because she would keep showing them to the other kids. ST is such a flighty little thing.

San Fransicko... No that's San Francisco Part 2

Miss Independence pronounced San Francisco as San Fransicko. Pretty cute huh? Well she took it to heart while we were there. MI developed a fever, runny nose, a cough and goopy eyes. It all came together when she tossed up her lunch from "the transportation day" all over the hotel bed.

Passionfruit and I debated whether we should take her immediately to the doctor or wait for tomorrow. I wanted to wait. Since Passionfruit was still dressed I told him if he wanted to go he could. I wrote down all her symptoms and sent him and MI on their merry little way.

Two hundred dollars later Passionfruit comes in with MI. He doses her up and puts her to bed. Might, I add that this is a bed where Passionfruit and I were sharing with MI. When she tossed her cookies, we lost one of the pillows. I spent the night trying to share two pillows with two other individuals. I was left in the crack quite literally.

In the morning my cousin who lives somewhere in South San Francisco caught up with us. We had plans to go down to Fisherman's Wharf. Getting there turned into an adventure because MI threw a huge temper tantrum. It was pretty bad. MI threw herself on the sidewalk and cried and screamed. A group of Japanese people came along. They were so concerned for her and were ready to send out a search party for the parents. The neat part of this was everyone of them were dressed in Kimonos! I let them know that the mommy was near by.

Finally we get down to Fisherman's Wharf. It was down at the wharf where the girls really got to see the interesting people of San Francisco. There were people dressed up and painted in silver. I gave what few coins that I had to DQ to put in the cup of one man acting like a robot. Once she dropped the coins in the "robot" checked out what was put in and he made a tsk tsk noise and shook the cup. I don't think DQ knew what to make of this character. The man dressed in silver won't let people take pictures of him unless you gave him money.

We decided to go to the aquarium and do a cruise of the bay. To quote DQ, "Let me tell ya! The Oklahoma aquarium is far nicer than the one on pier 39." Still I think the girls enjoyed running around and looking at the animals.

Then we were off to the boat for the cruise around the bay. The wind was really cold so the girls cuddled up close and listened to the cheesy narrative. It was fun. DQ perked up when we were passing by Alcatraz. She had lots of questions about what a prison was and how did one end up in prison. DQ also asked questions about the Native American take over of the island. I was really surprised by her question.

While we had wandered around the pier 39 Storyteller saw a bungee jumb swing. She begged me to let her go on it. I was done spending money for the day so I told them that she would have to use her own money. She agreed and the next thing I know she is bouncing up and down and spinning around. DQ surprised me to death when she wanted to do it. She did it. DQ did try the spin/turn and she didn't like it. But she seemed okay with the bouncing up and down. I was so proud of her. Normally she is so timid about things like that. MI wanted to do it too. She was amazing. Her feet went passed the frame of the rigging. MI drew a big crowd. People were amazed that she was doing it and having so much fun.

We ended this outing with lunch at the Rain Forest Cafe. The girls loved it and I enjoyed it, too. I had a drink there. It was called a Margarilla. Orange sherbet and tequila. I wasn't sure about it at first but it was pretty good.

I will continue the saga of San Francisco because I have to tell ya all about our date night.