Two sick kids... and some pics

Well, apparently I spoke too soon about all being well with Orren. All is not well. He seems to have caught what Erin had. He vomited before bedtime, then he has only slept on and off, which is what she did last night. Now he has diarrhea, and is just not feeling well, and currently is screaming while Thak attempts to rock him to sleep in his room. There's nothing more for me to do at this point, so I figured, I'm up anyhow, so blog. This night won't be an easy one. I figure we'll be taking turns with Orren and Erin, who's still pretty achy and whiny, for the rest of the night. Erin was going to start school tomorrow, but with her being so sick today, there's no way. She'll start Tuesday if we're lucky and she gets better the rest of the way. She can keep food down now, so it's hopeful. Orren is (KNOCK ON WOOD) keeping things down just fine at the moment, but he's really uncomfortable. We'll see what tomorrow brings. It doesn't look good.

At least this is happening now that we have our house, and Thak is home rather than deployed. Dealing with sick kids alone sucks. I know better than I want to. I don't want to know what it's like to deal with sick kids while living in a hotel. Thankfully, I don't have to find that out at this time.

Anyhow, I'm up, so why not have a few pics.

The move:
First off, Thak securing the car to the trailer in preparation for the big move. Also, a picture of our house in Georgia for those who hadn't seen it:

Now we have a pic of the crock pot on the floor of the truck. Yes, I really did ride to Texas sitting cross legged, cooking dinner at my feet as we went. It worked pretty well.


Next, here's Erin being silly in Mississippi:


Erin and Orren hanging out in our hotel room in Louisiana after a LOOOONG day on the road. We got Orren that John Deere onesie at Cracker Barrel in Oxford, AL. We actually got him two. Green really is his color!


The next day, we arrived in TEXAS!!! We were practically bouncing off the walls when we stopped at the Texas Welcome Center!



Then as we drove across Texas, we made our way through the beautiful Hill Country, the cities of Dallas, Ft. Worth, Midland, Odessa, and every tiny town in between. We saw wind turbines and oil wells side by side. As we passed Odessa, the terrain got more and more desolate, and the oil wells got bigger and bigger. For a while, there were oil fields as far as we could see. West Texas goes like this:

Wind turbines, oil fields, open range, the most desolate desert you ever saw, and wind. The wind here is insane.

Look behind her. You may be able to see the wind turbines. (Click the pic to see it bigger, and you can see several of them!) This was in Sweetwater, TX, the wind energy capital of the US.


Here we are east of Odessa. There is one oil well in the background, and if you look close, you will see a big refinery on the horizon. Good old American oil! We need more of that and less of this foreign crap we buy so much of! Also, you can tell in this one how hard the wind was blowing.


And that's all for now. I have a ton of pics of El Paso, and of our house here, but they're all still on the camera, and I'm not uploading them right now. This is a little bit of our trip out here. It was an experience, but 4 days on the road with 2 kids and 2 animals is not something I want to repeat anytime soon!!

Oh, and we have just figured out what is wrong with Orren. He appears to be teething. Yes, at 3 months old, he appears to be cutting his first tooth. We can feel it below his gumline, and this homeopathic teething gel we have on hand seemed to help the situation a little when nothing else did. He's having a really hard time with it. For now, he has gone to sleep on Thak (he is such a daddy's boy!!) I'd take a picture for you since it is pretty adorable, but the flash would wake him up, and I think Thak might kill me if I did that! So that's it for tonight. I think we may see if this boy will go to bed, and then try to get a wink or two of sleep ourselves.