Last Minute Birthday Surprise....

First of all, Happy Halloween everybody! Kinda....

Backing up real quick, yesterday was my 24th birthday. It was pretty great. We had our Primary Program, and as a member of the Presidency, I'm ELATED it's finally over! Everything turned out awesomely, but the few weeks prior put us in such a worry-fit, we didn't think anything was going to go right day-of.... Luckily, we were proved wrong, and I got a lovely birthday present of singing children and angelic "from the mouths of babes"-esque speaking parts... Then I got sang to twice in Sharing time (Jr and Sr) and we played a game with a monster dice and sang silly songs....

We went into town for dinner at my parents and got to play a game that I'm pretty sure nobody else likes to play but me. Everyone was such good sports... We headed home early, put Carrie to bed and I fell asleep thinking I'd had a pretty good birthday.....

Que "last minute birthday surprise"..... now.

A few minutes before midnight, Carrie made a coughing sound. I shrugged it off, but Justin bolted upright and said, "Did you hear that?! Is she ok?" (which is weird, because he usually doesn't hear her at night). I shuffled in to check on her and found her covered in throw-up..... grreeaaattt......

After a few scrambling minutes of running to the bathroom, grabbing a bowl, cleaning up, and bathing, Carrie was settled in on the floor in our room for the rest of the night. We did not. sleep. well.... She threw up probably five or six more times before the sun came up and a few times in the early-mid morning.

We lazed around and watched too much TV all day. (On a side note, because of the extreme lack of sleep and the queezy feeling that always comes to the parents when your kid gets sick, Justin stayed home from work, and we got our grass seed planted today!!)

Anyways, Carrie crashed asleep on the couch upstairs for a couple hours in the afternoon.

When she woke up, it was about time for us to decide if we were going to do anything for Halloween night. We had an invitation to walk around trick or treating with some friends; An option that QUICKLY was shut down by Carrie, almost in tears.... The other option was to drop in at another friend's block party. We figured we'd grab a couple bites of food, hang out for a bit and head home. We felt pretty safe because Carrie hadn't thrown up since about 10am...

On the way there, we stopped by the grocery store for bananas, per Carrie's request.... and she threw up in the parking lot. Luckily, Justin was able to grab her out of her carseat with a split second to spare.

Carrie said she still wanted to go, and us being slightly selfish, horrible parents thought, "Well, we still want to go too...." So we went... We walked around the block following our friends' kids trick or treating while Carrie was fully satisfied with sitting in the stroller, not in costume. But of course that wouldn't be the end of it... :) She puked in a random stranger's driveway... Got it all over herself and the stroller.... We went home and she fell asleep faster than Justin could say, "She's going to be out in no time"
Poor girl... It's been a long day....