Oh those sleepless nights.....

So last week, Lela had a fever for a few days. When Lela is sick.....life is he**. Seriously. This child, while already a world-class whiner when she is well, turns into Damian III when she is sick. Whine, sniffle, whine, cry. And that's just from me! ha So for a few nights, she slept in my bed, which meant that I didn't sleep much. The first night, she woke up whining every few hours then would fall right back to sleep. She slept through the whole night the next night. She is now feeling wonderful and is currently watching Peter Pan.

Poor Matt, however, has caught this fever. It's just a fever... no vomiting (knock wood) or anything else except a fever and sometimes a small cough. He started getting yesterday afternoon. It was really amusing, though, last night, because he had that fever delirium going on. He was running around acting silly and laughing, laughing, laughing. Yes, he is much more fun sick than Lela. However, when bedtime came, he couldn't sleep longer than 15 minutes or half an hour without waking and whining. He had a much harder time going back to sleep. I ended up with him in my bed where I slept maybe half an hour until around 2:20 a.m. At that time, knowing my lovely husband would probably be awake, I took Matt downstairs. Gave him to Bill. Then slept a lovely 4 hours until Lela woke up, demanding breakfast at 6:30.

Today has been lazy, though I'm sure I didn't need to write that. Matt alternates between being happy and playing (when his fever is higher), to wanting to be held by me constantly (when the fever is lower). Why this is, I don't know. He's currently laying down, trying to nap. I've got the monitor on down here so I can listen for the inevitable cry. I'm hoping and praying he'll sleep for a few hours, to get some rest in, and to get some energy back.

IF he is still sleeping in half an hour when I put Lela down for her nap, I may just crawl in next to her.

Yes, boring post. I"m praising God that this hasn't been anything more serious.