Once back to the Laschen’s the kiddos quickly changed and hopped into the pool. We all got ready for dinner and were just about to sit down to eat, when the beginning of Elin’s sickness happened. I put her in her high chair and up came everything, we were hoping she had just swallowed too much pool water, but when everything came up for the next 2 hours.
We made a call to the Children’s Hospital Call Line in Denver (seriously the best thing ever-if you want to know about it message me). It is free and you talk to a nurse who tells you what to do AND you don’t have to live there. They told us to head into an urgent care so off we went. Once there they checked her out and gave her some medicine to stop the vomiting. We then had to try to occupy a super tired and hungry babe for 30 minutes when all she wanted to do was nurse and sleep. After she was able to keep down a popsicle and milk we were sent home for some much needed sleep. Thomas and Nana Kathy had been enjoying a movie and the little guy kept her awake waiting for us to return. 
On Monday morning we had a special trip to the zoo planned with the Laschen family. We had a behind the scenes tour and guide scheduled and we were all hopeful that E could hang and make it. The zoo trip started and we were all enjoying ourselves learning about the not so obvious things from our tour guide. About 45 minutes in, Elin puked again, all over right by the camels. YUCK oh and poor little girl, she was miserable! We had a change of clothes and we fixed her up and proceeded along with the tour. 
That was the last time she threw up thankfully at the zoo and we were able to enjoy the rest of the animals and the dinosaur exhibit. Thankfully there were lots of arms around to carry the kiddos because, just sayin’, those dinos might have come alive and gotten us all according to Thomas. He has such a love hate relationship with those things, he wants to see them so badly, then is slightly terrified the whole time they are around. 
After the zoo we went home for some rest and more swimming time. Elin even got her toes wet and then fell asleep while her Nana rocked her. It was a very chill and relaxing way to end the long vacation.
On Tuesday we packed ourselves up and headed off to the airport. All had been well and we had prepared our bags just in case disaster struck. It is comical to write about this experience now but oh what a disaster the trip home was. Seriously! I don’t know if we will ever be able to top this, I hope we won’t! Anyway for the record if your squeamish stop reading now….
Our trip started off fine. Elin nursed during the take off and then fell asleep. All was well until about 30 minutes into the flight in her sleep she woke up and puked all over me. Then we hit a patch of turbulence seat belt signs on, hold on to your seat turbulence. With fantastic timing, Thomas started to get fussy and the bumps weren’t helping. He doesn't get fussy like that and I told Mike to get ready. Before I could finish prepping him for what was to come (getting the bags we had packed) Thomas blew EVERYWHERE. Blahhhh. There were bumps, seat belts on and 2 kids who were now puking everywhere. It seemed like and eternity of 10 or so minutes before the seatbelt sign went off and Mike and Thomas were able to get to the bathroom. T was feeling crummy and wanted to stop puking badly. He was where Elin was 2 nights ago and we were an hour flight still from landing in Seattle. The flight attendants were great we had bags upon bags and clothes for the kids and ourselves (our clothes were a fluke as we didn’t have room to pack them all in our baggage). We landed and the puking didn’t stop and Elin was not herself. Another call into Children’s and we were headed to the ER. 
Once through triage they gave Thomas and Elin both another dose of Zofran, that stuff is seriously amazing when it is needed. Elin also had her blood sugar checked as they thought that could have something to do with her lethargy as she was still hydrated from nursing. By the time we left both kids had stopped puking and Elin was more herself and Thomas was running laps. I am talking running out of the ER with all of us looking at him like he was nuts! We headed home for showers and sleep after a super long and very crazy travel day!
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