Mixed bag

This weekend was fairly extreme. We had a blast at the NMAI's Día de los Muertos festivities. Here's Liam chilling in his skater skelly shirt.


And I coaxed Thea to reluctantly pose in front of a very cool altar.



Then later we went to Rock n Romp, which is always a blast. Even better, it was the Halloween show. Thea and Lila were both dragons.


I got Thea a cute poodle costume that she isn't wild about. She has explained to me, patiently, that although she does like it, she doesn't like it for her. (That's a quote.) So we let Emma borrow it.


Insanely cute, right? I keep having to remind myself, Thea's costume isn't about me. Liam's, however, is.


Not that he got a lot out of the show.

Dashiell is dressed as Dash from the Incredibles. Clever! Rosie was a very pretty princess of some sort, I think. That seemed to be the theme of the night, princesses and dragons.


Thea really liked the show. She was a bit overwhelmed at first, as always, but after a while mellowed out and bobbed along to the music while sipping her drink. She's totally my girl.


Lastly, it isn't my story to tell, but this scared the hell out of Rosie.


Yesterday was awesome; today, though, was the worst. Todd woke up in excruciating pain around 12:30am. An hour later, when Todd started throwing up and looking like he was going to pass out, we called Don, my new best friend, to come over and stay at the house while I took Todd to the emergency room.

Here's a tip: know the route to the nearest emergency room before there's an emergency. I got lost on the way, and Todd, writhing in agony, sweating, throwing up every few minutes, nonetheless had to hold it together enough to get us back on track. Totally not cool.

The diagnosis is kidney stones and a bad infection. The up side: hillbilly heroin and Cipro!

Not to be all "poor me" when Todd is seriously suffering, but being a single parent on two hours of sleep SUCKS.