My kids have never been the kids who snuggle when they’re sick. They cry, and then go to sleep, and sleep and sleep and sleep, and then sleep more, to a point where I become alarmed. Usually, they wake up better. Today was a different kind of day.
I snuck Dekker out of the big kids’ room this morning in an effort to try and let Laela’s feverish little body sleep a bit longer. Little did I know it would sleep until 12:45pm!!! No word of a lie. It was ominous. I paid close attention to the monitor, and she rolled and talked for a few seconds here and there, but when I’d go check on her, she would be fast asleep. I finally went in loudly and woke her just before 1:00pm.
Laela was the cuddliest she has ever been while she was sick. She stayed on my lap, and rested her face against my arm. I convinced her to eat a few crackers and drink some water. She took a bite of an apple slice but it didn’t go past that. Not a fan, I suppose. She was so zoned. She didn’t move off of my lap for a full 1.5 hours. It was so out of the ordinary for us, but of course I secretly enjoyed her exhausted cuddles.
On top of Laela’s fever refusing to break, Rowan cut his fifth tooth! I think I forgot to put it on here, but just a day or two ago, he cut his fourth tooth. So the kids is working like CRAZY on his teeth, which is actually really funny to watch. He will go from hysterical laughter to crying and back to laughter in seconds flat. He is always red and drooly and sweaty and watery eyed. He’s a total trooper tho.
And still on top of all of that, we have Dekker potty training still. He had a few days of accidents over the weekend, but seemed to find his way back on track today. He had no accidents, not even poop ones! He was so very proud of himself, and he’s getting more confident. Not about every aspect, but even just the toilet in general. He was fine upstairs, but he DID NOT like the basement toilet at all. Today, it was no problem. He’s doing awesome. Even more interestingly, he complained about wearing a pull up to bed! “I don’t like my nighttime underwear!” He’s woken up dry for quite a while now, I’m just not quite sure I’m totally ready to lose the pull up. If he peed in the night and cried for it to be cleaned up, we of course would clean it up for him, but he’s on the top of the loft bed, and it would obviously wake Laela completely. So we’ll see. I might hold out just a little bit longer.
All I’m trying to say is that the kids are sort of all going through something big, and they are ROCKING it!! All of them! I’m a very proud mama. In amongst all of the weirdness of today, its been a great one. All of the dozy snuggles helped too 😉