Last night was so much smoother than the night before, and for that I am SO thankful!! Solly got up twice, and Dekker came up one time because he had woken up completely disoriented and couldn’t find his water bottle. It was where it always was, but he was SO exhausted and sick, poor thing, just couldn’t figure it out. Once he was settled back in, we didn’t see him for the rest of the night.
The sleep helped a TON, and while it goes against our grain completely, Brady went in to work this morning for 6:00am. It really doesn’t feel like a weekend at all, but this saves our week. Brady will have a nice short day tomorrow, and will have the day of Dekker’s Christmas program off! Woot! Let’s just keep praying that Deks is well enough to go be part of it!
Updates on the kids! They were disasters first thing this morning. Dekker cried probably ten times in the first half hour he was awake. About everything. Laela coughed. His chair moved. He didn’t like the color of his spoon. Reeeaaally reasonable stuff. Once he finally ate something, though, he perked up a bit and seemed to be in better shape.
Rowan was totally chipper in the morning. He has some snot issues, but no fever like his older siblings. He made lots of jokes, showed of a ton of new words, and told Solly that he loved him.
Laela was in the worst shape this morning. She can barely open her puffy eyes. I lay her down on the floor to change her diaper and she just closed her eyes and lay all limp. Even after breakfast, she cuddled up on the couch and proceeded to consistently cough and wiped her nose on her toys. I would remind her to cover her mouth, or use a Kleenex, and she would just bawl, worsening the situation, of course. Finally, I just put her back to bed. She was not impressed, but she also hasn’t made a sound in there for close to three hours, so I think mommy was right.
Solly has a cough :/ Which is sad. He doesn’t really want to eat or drink, but can be convinced if I can muster the patience. He is a TOTAL peach still, which is refreshing and fun, but I’m sad that he’s under the weather with the others.
Praise the Lord, Brady is home for the day, and will have a shorter day tomorrow too. Its so much nicer to have some backup when the laundry is behind, the cleaning is constant, and there are still jobs to do before Christmas arrives! I’m feeling, at least for the moment, like we might have some of this under control. Please, Lord, let it be so!