Dateline:  Tuesday, April 4th, 9.05 AM
Reporter:  Jennifer Lynn Yeager

I was informed this morning by Jennifer that Arden is a bad girl.  Cute, but bad.  When Jennifer dropped Sophia off this morning at Judi’s, she put her in the exersaucer so she could give Judi the low-down on the house of stomach viruses.  Arden delightedly walked over to Sophia, sneezed DIRECTLY into her face, giggled, and ran away.  Ugh!  I had to reassure Jennifer that Arden has allergies, like her mother - but still, how gross!  She did it to me last night at Cavanna.  I was standing with two big bags of food and Arden in the other arm when she looked at me with a loving expression.  As I leaned in for a kiss, she let loose a huge sneeze. I was sprayed with slobber.  Everyone behind me in line either gasped with horror or laughed with delight.  I guess you’re never too young to learn to COVER YOUR MOUTH!!!

Jennifer was also really annoyed (she used another word, but I’ll keep it clean) that the reason Sophia along with the rest of the Yeagers got so sick was from another family who use Judi for daycare.  Their child was throwing up, but they said it was just because he was carsick.  They took him to Judi’s and then stayed home because THEY felt sick to their stomachs!!! They obviously knew he was sick. Judi let them have it full force.  One thing I love about Judi - she doesn’t mince words and she tells it like it is.  She told them that they had gotten Sophia sick - the one child in there other than Arden that can’t afford to lose any weight - and she then infected her entire family, as well as losing weight.  I can totally relate to Jennifer’s frustration in that sense.  Every pound I’m able to get on Lily and Arden takes a lot of work.  When they lose 1 or 2 pounds due to illness, it’s devastating - it takes a long time to get back to where they were.  So I’m glad Judi told them off.  Perhaps they’ll think twice about sending a kid in sick again.  One of things I like about Judi’s is that because it’s so small, you can’t hide a sick child from everyone else.  In big daycare settings you can dope up your kid on Tylenol and pretend you didn’t know they had a fever.  At Judi’s, you can’t get away with it . . . and because of that, other than mild colds, there is very little sickness that goes around there.