Elsi's first fever

Elsi has a fever tonight, somewhere around 102.5, but since I don't like to do the rectal thermometer, I don't know the exact temperature. I gave her Tylenol; hopefully, it helps. She seemed mostly okay today, but tonight, she was a little more whiny than usual -- not upset, just puny.

I'm slowly learning to trust my "mom-sense". Usually, when I think they might have a temp., they do. I like that I can use that hunch to make an educated guess when it comes to the welfare of my children!

Blah days

Us grownups around here are feeling a little blah these days. It's been yucky cloudy, rainy weather for the last three days. We're both tired -- three early mornings for Greg this week (he normally gets to sleep until I go to work at 10, because he doesn't get home until after midnight and can't go to sleep right away); and struggling with allergy related symptoms: sore throat, headaches, snoring, etc. Not that these things are rare -- I'm sure all of you have some experience with them!

Sick Kiddos!

Both of our kids are sick. Just colds, but both sounding very croupy, which is not unusual for Ben, but is unusual for Luke. Greg took Ben to the Dr. Thursday morning (Luke was still okay at that point). Apparently his breathing sounded really bad to them, because the lady behind the counter heard Ben cough, and the office just about flew into a frenzy. He hadn't been there 5 minutes when they took them back to a room and got Ben on a nebulizer, which Ben HATED! They made him stay at the office for 2 hours to see if they wanted Ben to go to the hospital or not. They said we should have taken Ben to the ER the night before. Greg felt terrible, of course, but it sounds worse to explain -- "He sounds like this all the time!" They should already know that anyway. I guess we'll know better next time, but this time, we thank the Lord that it wasn't any worse.