A Party we won't forget

We celebrated Sarah's 5th birthday today with our friend and family party at home.

All day, leading up to the party, she was very tired, just layed on the couch, and ate nothing. The only thing she did do was go with Mick and Justin to get her balloons. Otherwise, she just looked "off."

At 1pm, she started looking like she would fall asleep on the couch. I put a diaper on her since she still wears one at night, but that woke her up. (For the record, she has not napped for a couple years. Not a single nap.) Finally she fell asleep at 2. Great timing - NOT. Party starts at 3 and she's asleep on the couch. Crazy day.

Well she woke up right before the party. I got her dressed. She was still groggy, but perked up and went outside to play with Emily, Ian and Justin. And she continued to play when everyone else got here. She loved the bouncey. She cried when people were on her swing. She was cranky about the swing sharing, but otherwise she was fine.

Did I mention is is May 1st and it was 84 degrees out. It was HOT and sunny.

She came in at one point and asked for watermelon. I was nervous since she hadn't eaten all day, but Mick said to let her have it. OK. We didn't give her much though.

Cake time came. We sang. She was happy. I started cutting the cake. I got the first piece ready to give to her. I hear "Ummm...Aimm....she just threw up." Yup. She threw up the watermelon at the table. It was on her, the table and her seat. Ugh!!!

Ed finished the cake. Mick brought her inside. I went to help get her clothes. Grammy cleaned the table. She got changed. She wanted cake. Ummm...no. I let her have an italian ice instead. Everyone else got cake and ice cream.

Poor birthday girl.

Fast forward. Not much later we did the pinata. After all the fun, Sarah wanted a lollipop. I said ok. She stopped partway through (which she never does) and threw it on the ground and asked to be held. I got daddy to hold her. And we said we'd open gifts.

We joked during the gifts that she better not throw up on the gifts. Then, right after opening all the gifts, she told me she needed to throw up. No lie. I walked her over to the garbage bag of wrapping paper and had her put her head in it. She didn't throw up. I asked my mom to get me the puke bucket and I carried her inside. She stuck her head in the bucket. Then eventually she just layed down, lifeless, in my arms for about 10 minutes. But she kept asking to play with her new play-doh set. So, daddy opened it up, set it up at the table and we brought her over. You guessed it - she threw up everywhere. Poor kid.

So, we cleaned her up again (remember, she didn't have any food all day, so it was all liquid) and I decided we'd keep her inside the rest of the day. We put her in jammies and brought her bakc out to her play doh. She started playing. Then Kiersten joined her. Within an hour she was really looking revived. And later you would never have guessed that she had been sick.

So, no clue what had happened. She must have had something wrong. Tired all day. No eating. Low fever that started in the late afternoon. But maybe the heat and running around made it worse.

As we changed her the second time, she told us how sad she was that this was a bad birthday b/c she threw up. Poor kid.

Well, Happy Birthday Sarah.

We'll never forget this birthday party!