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10/03/2005 Archived Entry: "nothing like a little snot to brighten up your day."

So, I'm exhausted. I was up every 45 minutes last night with the wee lass. Chris did get up once, but he really needed to sleep as he had to be out of the house by 5:30 this morning. Around 3 or so I realized Daisy had a fever. It wasn't a burning feeling, she was just warm so I didn't worry about it and knew her body was doing what it was supposed to do. She ate real well every time she woke, so that was another reason I didn't really worry. I did leave a note for Chris to take the stroller out of the trunk though so we could go get Tylenol if neccesary.

During our 6:30 wake up, I was in the process of putting her back to sleep when Tabitha did her morning call. Apparently she forgot to look at the clock because she is not supposed to call until 7 at the earliest. As soon as Daisy heard Tabi's voice, her eyes flew open and she perked right up looking all around for her. I knew it was hopeless to think she would forego her sister in order to sleep so we went in and got Tabs. I plunked the two of them down in the dining room and went to my room to cry. Okay, not really, but man did I want to. My mind was just plain numb and to start my day at 6:30 without any sleep and without Chris was really more than I could mentally handle. Needless to say, when I finally did get Daisy down for that first nap, Tabitha and I did not do lessons. Instead she made her fall garland while I tried to pull myself together. Daisy, of course, did not sleep long enough and it became apparent that she definitely has a mild cold. She woke up stuffed up and pissed off. I tried in vain to get her back down but all she wanted to do was lay on my bed with me. She didn't want me to hold her and when I tried to pick her up, her screams let me know exactly what she thought of that idea. So we hung out on my bed for awhile where I had to fight off sleep. Man how I just wanted to close my eyes and that would have been that. Of course, I would only have slept 10 seconds before my kid would have fallen to the floor so staying awake was of utmost importance. I did it and had some Diet Coke and M&Ms and got us all ready to leave and off to Sav-On we went. Daisy has never been sick before so I don't have anything for babies other than teething tablets. I bought Tylenol cold since that would also give her acetemetephin for her fever. It was only around 99.2 but I felt she had had it long enough and it was time for her to get some relief. Her mood, thankfully, has been pretty good other than when she wakes up. But she was fabulous on the walk and played with me on the floor when we got home. She's asleep again now and it's going on an hour so hopefully the Tylenol kicked in and she'll be able to get as much sleep as she needs.

I had promised Tabitha a book from Sav-On as a reward for helping me out so much this morning and she chose a Strawberry Shortcake sticker book. She dove into it the minute we got home. She's playing now and will go off to bowling later. My mil is taking off a few minutes early to take Tabitha since Chris is working down in San Diego today and just won't be home in time. He's back down there tomorrow which means another morning by myself and it will be day 2 of Daisy's cold which means it will be at it's worst most likely. Oh joy.