Little Miss, Tigers and Bears, Oh My!: Birthdays and Nasty Viruses

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Birthdays and Nasty Viruses

This is week #2 of having a nasty virus, possibly the same virus that causes mono. Poor Little Miss had her birthday party postponed because everyone came down with pink eye. She broke out in hives at the first two types of eye drops. After being up all night for two nights with a girl who can't sleep because her hives itch, and having to feed the baby in between being called to Little Miss' room, I got hit by the virus pretty hard and forgot to call the doctor for the next two days, and then it was the weekend. So, it wasn't until her eye infection came back on Sunday, that I resolved to ask for a third kind of eye drops. They said this is the last one they can try, and so far, so good. Unfortunately, she gave her baby brother pink eye again, so now he has to start the eye drops again too. I was the only one who didn't catch the pink eye, just the rest of the upper respiratory junk, head congestion, painfully swollen throat, fever and chills.

Before we all came down sick, we had BBug and her family over from ABQ for the weekend for my nephew's birthday party (Zinx's son). Since Zinx and Cherry were about to move away to CA, and were busy with packing, I volunteered to make the cake. What did my nephew want? A backhoe cake. What flavor? Frosting, frosting, and carrot cake.Okay. This is what I did:

No idea why the blogger program rotated it.

My nephew was thrilled with the backhoe cake and that made me happy. Here he is with his parents and his sister (on the left - we were also celebrating her birthday a month early because they were moving away.)