Sick

Phoenix has been getting up in the night (before we had him sleeping from 7pm-5am) more and has been acting crazy and throwing tantrums and so I figured he was teething really bad. We're not sure though and think he could also have ear infections so I need to call the doctor tomorrow to see if there's an opening. He has an appointment Friday for turning 12 months but we're going to see if we can bump it up because it's been a while already and it's really hard on me sleeping wise. He is weaned during the day and still breastfeeds right before bed and then at about 5 am in the morning. More about that later...
Anyway, this whole ordeal has been hard on me and I have been drained in the morning and can't get up to work out! Marce has had swim lessons at 10 am everyday. That's Phoenix

Marce woke up with a high fever a few days ago, after Phoenix started with his fever (either from teething or ear infections we suppose) and he's continued to be feverish but is now on the mend. Saturday I had planned on going to the Temple. I wasn't able to go though because of the boys being sick. Turns out that yesterday and today my boob is hurting and I start to feel the beginnings of Mastitis. For those of you who haven't experienced that, you do NOT want to go down that road. You are supposed to nurse a lot and relieve with a heat pad. The problem is I am in the process of weaning and not about to nurse more although when I do nurse I can do it from a different position which should help. Also, Sharrid blew up my heat pad in the microwave accidentally nearly a year ago. Today is when it started going down hill. It's one thing to have a sore boob...with the boys on the mend, we decided we would go to Sacrament meeting and then drive over to the Temple grounds since I couldn't actually go to the Temple yesterday. We didn't want Marce in Nursery because he was still borderline. I started feeling really weak and tired in Sacrament meeting and told Shar I needed to go home and we would not be going to the Temple grounds. At this point Marce hadn't had high fever all morning and was back to his old self (again...more on this later) so Shar dropped him off in Nursery and took me home then went back with Phoenix for a combined Priesthood/RS lesson from the Bishop. I'm mad I missed it but couldn't help it. I immediately went to bed after coming home and slept deeply until the time I heard them get home. I tried to get up then but fell asleep again not long after they got home. Shar was great and played and took care of the boys while I slept pretty much all day. I am now up and feeling more energy here at 6pm. I am still very achy but I hope I'm better tomorrow. Like I said we need to get Phoenix into the doctor and Marce has swim this week til Thursday. I need to make bread right now so I hope I'm good enough to do that. I'm going out of town this weekend and will be gone for quite a while so I have packing and gathering to do to prepare for that. I wanted to work on my Video Diary today but I don't see that happening. It will have to wait.

I have taught Marcelus to take the Sacrament since probably about a year ago to teach him reverence and relevance in Sacrament meeting but today he picked up a piece of bread and attempted to put it back because it had crust on it. I tried to get the one he originally touched and passed the tray on. I had to tell him that he needed to take the first one he touched and if he didn't want crust to take one without it in the first place. I then pulled off the crust and gave it to him. Then when the water came he took one, drank it and then gave a fake burp to try and be funny I suppose. Not funny. I talked to him briefly about it and hope he never does it again. I know it wasn't very loud. Sharrid sitting 3 seats down from us didn't hear it. (good thing). Marcelus is your typical 3 year old boy...

He is talking so much now and people always ask how old he is and what his name is. He's really good at saying his name but they always ask twice anyway. He always introduces Phoenix to them too. "I'm Marcelus, and this is Phoenix!", it's super cute. We had to renew our Temple recommends last weekend and a guy in the waiting area was talking to him. He asked "Are you going to go on a mission?" Marce then got all excited and said "Yeah! I'm going to get Mission To Mars at the store!" Mission to Mars is a Backyardigans DVD that we don't have...I guess we're still trying to teach him about Jesus and other things that come before mission. I don't think he would understand what a mission is right now. I was a little embarrassed and wanted to prove that we did teach him of spiritual things so I then asked Marce "Are you going to be baptized?" Marce then said "Yes! I'm going to be baptized in the water. I'm a fish. Mommy, you're a dolphin. Daddy, you're a shark! I guess he has kind of a short attention span.