We survived the week

I know I should have posted an update sooner, but we have just been busy. Ethan was just so very sick. We ended up getting our pediatrician's office from home to call us in some Phenergan suppositories for him to a 24-hour Walgreens here in Orlando. We gave him the medicine around 11 pm and Ethan didn't quit throwing up until after 2 am. He vomited every 30 - 40 minutes for a solid 12 hours. I sat up with him all night and fed him Gatorade through a medicine syringe. He was finally able to start keeping stuff down around 3am. When he woke up at 6am the next morning, he came in and got me up and in a very chipper voice said, "Hi Mama." I asked him how he felt and he told me that he actually felt normal. I couldn't believe that he was even sitting upright after throwing up so bad the day before, but he was up and feeling okay. At least he appeared okay for the moment.

Our original plans for that day were to go to Magic Kingdom, but since Ethan was so sick, we thought that it would be best to stay in and just rest. That would mean going to Magic Kingdom the next day and just skipping Universal Studios altogether. There was no way we would skip going to Magic Kingdom if we could help it. As we were getting ready that morning and watching the news, we saw that the weather was calling for very severe weather for the next day. And I mean severe. Rob and I looked at each other and then looked at Ethan sitting there on the floor playing a game with Emily. We decided that our only chance of going to Magic Kingdom was going that day. We told Ethan that we'd walk down to breakfast and see how he did. If he felt okay, then we'd head to MK and just do what we could. If we didn't at least try, then the tickets would be wasted anyway due to severe weather.

Ethan was a little green around the gills at the beginning of our Magic Kingdom adventure, but by late morning, he was doing good. By the end of the day he was doing great! We ended up riding almost every ride there. Not bad for somebody who was almost taken to the hospital the night before for IV fluids.

Today is the day that those storms hit. They were pretty bad. Lots of rain. We stayed at the Village and hung out in the gameroom at Amberville and in the Castle of Miracles. The rain cleared out by this afternoon and we were so glad, too, because tonight was the big Christmas Party. Ethan and Emily were chosen to be in the parade and they thought that was so cool. Also, they saw some of the Disney characters that came out for the festivities, we rode in a horse drawn carriage, and they saw Santa Claus. They also each received a present from Santa Claus. It was a very fun evening.

It is time for us to head home tomorrow. We are driving instead of flying. Magic Moments has gotten us a rental car. We will be stopping along the way since we aren't leaving until the afternoon and we'll get in on Saturday. It has been a fun, but tiring week, and I am ready to get home.

There are a couple of things that I want to mention that I forgot to mention in earlier updates. At Sea World, when we were watching the Believe show with Shamu, Ethan was really intently studying the tank that the whales are in. He looked at me during the middle of the show and asked, "Mommy, how did they get those whales? Did somebody have to catch them?" And then he wanted to know why in the world anybody would think it was better to take them out of the ocean if the ocean is where their home is. I just looked at my son and thought he had a very good point and then I felt very guilty for even sitting there watching a whale show.

Something interesting about Emily. She told me that she has noticed that when she walks and when she stands, she puts more weight on her left leg and foot than she does her right. She told me that it makes her legs get really tired and she wanted to know why her right leg and foot doesn't stand the same as her left one.

And I have decided that Emily will probably grow up and become president of PETA one day. She can't stand to see animals caged up or contained in any way. When we first got to Magic Kingdom, Emily about had a fit because they had a horse attached to a street car and it was just standing there. She said that it was mean to make it just stand there like that. She even got upset when she saw one of the mechanical donkeys on the Pirates of the Carribean ride. She got all worked up and said that farm animals are not supposed to be locked up. They are supposed to be on a farm where they can be set free to roam around and graze. And then she got upset again tonight with the horse drawn carriage ride tonight at the Christmas party. She said that she didn't think they liked having all of that stuff strapped to them and that they really didn't like pulling around a big wagon. Like I said, she is a future PETA member.