3 am

My girl says to me, "Mama, I love you so so so much." She's still running a fever 102.9 at 2:30 am. She requested that I sleep with her in her Minnie Mouse bed. She won't drink milk, chocolate milk, or much water, but she has pounded an entire large McDonalds sweet tea today, or yesterday I guess. I haven't slept. But I'm in pretty good company. Pretty pretty company, if you ask me. And there isn't anyone I'd rather not sleep with right now. And she's still wearing her fancy dress. I plan on wrestling it off her later today.


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Rachel says "a positive diagnosis of influenza & fever of 103+ is no reason to not be fashionable."



Oh yea. Positive for influenza. She feels pretty crumby. Really high fever. And I mean really high, 104.2 around 2:00 am to be exact.

We are basically quarantined to the hizouse until she goes 24 hours without a fever. Hopefully my girl gets to feeling better soon. Definitely don't like seeing her feeling so awful and looking so pitiful.



She's doing ok, aside from that dangerously high fever over night. That scared me. But we are in a pattern where she has a high temp then gets medicine and perks up for a bit. See...






Then she gets to feeling all horrible again. I feel fine. But look like crap run over twice. See...



So, the doctor's appointment today went well. She was a real trooper with the tests they did. And she had to wear a surgical mask which did not go with her general fancy-ness.


Hope this medicine helps my girl.

Fun at the Children's Discovery Museum

I feel like we are finally moving out of the winter blues & into spring fever. Even though the winter wasn't bad at all. It still just seems like it lasts FOREVER. Yesterday would have been an absolutely gorgeous & almost hot if it hadn't been 40 mph winds. The weather over the past couple of weeks has been crazy. Sunday night it snowed & was 15 degrees when I left the house Monday morning. Yesterday, it was 65 degrees during my drive home at 5:30. INSANE.

The weather flip-flopping like this has struck us all with some sort of head cold. Today Rachel is down & out with a fever of 102.6 and more snot than I've ever seen in a 4 year old. Poor girl. Olivia has been complaining of headaches all week. I think she may have allergy crap like me. So we are home laying low today.

Hopefully soon we will have green grass & blue skies! It's going to be great to be abe to get outside & enjoy the day rather than staying couped up inside. We spring forward this weekend. So excited to gain an extra hour of day light!

Saturday, we decided to take the girls on a fun trip to the Children's Discovery Museum in Decatur. They had only been asking every weekend for the past month. It was so much fun. They had a blast. This was my 1st trip there. Jarrett took the girls on his own when I went to the Cubs game last August - what a brave Daddy.



Jarrett joined in on the fun! And will be so pleased this picture made its way to the blog!

The Bubble Room was our first stop. And Olivia claims it was her favorite.

 



The mini post office & bank were a big hit with both the girls too.

The paint room. It was really fun. So messy, but very fun.

 

The grocery store was Rachel's absolute favorite. I didn't think we'd ever get her out of there.