Birthday completed

So, we did have a small gathering on Sunday, even though Emily was feeling horrible.  Travis's parents and his brother and girlfriend came and braved our sick household, and I'm so glad they did.  We had a nice lunch, opened presents, ate Very Hungry Caterpillar cupcakes, and took care of Emily, who snoozed and threw up off and on all day.  She felt good enough to sing Happy Birthday to Audrey and help blow out her candle, which was very important to her, so that was really special.  Emily is quite the singer, even when she's sick!  It was great to hear her little voice singing so earnestly.

And we continued the party yesterday afternoon.  My sister and her girls, my parents, and my grandparents came to eat the leftover cupcakes and play with Audrey's new toys.  We had dinner together, and it was a nice small celebration.  I suppose it was nice to have fewer people at a time, not so overwhelming for Audrey, so that's the silver lining to all this.

Emily woke up Monday morning, singing to Audrey and then bouncing into my room saying, "Audrey's AWAKE!  I sleeped well!  I don't need to throw up aaaaanymore!"  She didn't eat well until Tuesday or so, but she did go to daycare and did just fine.  After three weeks at the new daycare, they still are having a hard time being dropped off.  When I left them today, they were both in tears.  I figured they recovered quickly; I don't get much feedback, though; the limited information I get is filtered because Travis picks them up.  The good side of that is that he gets to spend special time with them, and I get to come straight home from work and be greeted with big smiles and hugs when I walk in the door. And, Audrey gets to ride front-facing in his car because there's not enough room for the carseat to be rear-facing, and that's quite the thrill for her. 

Trav told me that just before I walked in the door tonight, Audrey was working on standing up.  She was crawling, straightened her legs, then threw her hands up in the air, standing up!  Then she fell over, of course.  But then she was working on standing and walking with a walker toy after supper tonight, and totally loving it.  She seems so tall when she gets up and going, and she sure thinks she's hot stuff!  We measured her on the wall for her birthday, and she's exactly as tall as Emily was at 1 year.  They're growing up so fast!