My Poor, Sick Baby Girl!

I hate it when kids are sick!  I would much rather have it be me instead (as most parents would)!  Within ten minutes of Lydia being home from preschool (12:15pm) yesterday, she said her tummy hurt.  So I let her go upstairs and watch Backyardigans in bed.  About 2:15pm I hear a cry.  I run upstairs and she had finally thrown up all over.  Poor thing.  She threw up two more times that night and was in and out of sleep all afternoon and evening.

I gotta be honest.  Even though a stomach virus is VERY messy, I would rather have that any day of the week as apposed to a fever.  Fevers just scare me so much because of the spiking, the shaking, the immense heat all over the their body! Too much for my heart to handle.

Well, I didn't get my wish with Lydia JUST having the stomach virus.  Nate woke up at 3am (peed through his diaper) and I noticed Lydia was awake.  I went in and checked on her and she was SUPER hot. I took her temperature....102.3 degrees. YIKES!  Not what I wanted to see.

So I sat in bed with Lydia for about an hour as we talked (she said some funny things due to being delusional), watched a movie and cuddled.  Thank goodness for modern medicine!  I was hoping some children's Ibuprofen would help.  She finally fell asleep about 4:30 and per her request, I slept in bed with her the rest of the night.

She woke up this morning and thank goodness her fever broke, her body wasn't near as hot as it was last night and she hasn't thrown up at all.  Lydia is hardly ever sick (knock on wood); she hasn't been this sick since she was two!  I'm glad she's getting back to her old self though.  It just breaks my heart to see my kids in pain.

Sorry to Brock and Jordan (and all her preschool friends).  Hopefully she didn't give it to any of you!  But if your kids get sick, you know who to blame!!!   ;)  And thanks to Lizzy for bringing over a colored picture to make her feel better! You're the best!