The Adventures of Jing and Ying!

This week I really do have a good excuse for not posting. Sophie has been sick all week with high temps and headaches. Surprisingly she is eating well. I give her Motrin, it brings her temp down to 99 and within a few hours it's back up. And if you know Sophie, you know that she doesn't do anything halfway. When she gets a fever, she REALLY gets a fever. It's nothing for her temps to soar to 103 and 104.

I worked a measley 2 hours this week, keeping Sophie home every day. My thoughts were that this was another virus that had to run it's course. On the 7th day when the fever hadn't broken I brought her to the doctor. Poor Sophie tested positive for strep throat. Then the next morning (today) Kylie and I woke up with sore throats. Fortunately Kylie's doctor and my doctor called in prescriptions to the pharmacy without us having to see the doctors. The girls take their liquid meds for 10 days, and I take my pills for 5. Besides my sore throat, my head hurts, my body aches and I have chills. I was so miserable that I had Steve pick up the medicine for me.

La-La appears to have grown a little, at least it looks that way to me. She is a sweetheart...cuddly one moment and the next moment batting me with her paws and play-fighting. The girls are doing better around her, but they still make me put her in the laundry room when we eat.

Sophie is being a spitfire, more so than ever. If I reprimand her, even if it's something mild like please take your fingers out of your mouth, she screams, "This is a horrible day, they worst day ever." I hear that at least a few times a day. She also tells me that I'm not her friend, that she wants a new mommy and that I'm stupid. We're working on things with her, but she is very strong-willed. Luckily I am too.

I recently bought some Fiesta dishes that I've been wanting. My old dishes were fine, but I just wanted a change. I bought the dishes in scarlet, tangerine, chocolate, peacock and lemongrass.

Yummy chicken and veggie shish-kebobs