First Fever

Looks like Addie has her first illness -- we almost made it to a year! She was super clingy and whiny yesterday and was driving me crazy -- she'd only sleep on me, which is nice snuggles, but I got nothing done. It didn't even occur to me that she didn't feel good -- shows how in-tune of a mother I am. Loren thought she looked weird when he got home, but I still didn't think anything of it. She tossed and turned most of the night, and when Loren picked her up to soothe at about 4:30pm he said she was really hot. I, still, didn't think anything was wrong. But I decided to get the thermometer anyways, and lo and behold, she had a temp of 102.2. Man, did I feel terrible. Here I am complaining about her driving me crazy all day and night, and the poor thing is sick. :( I gave her some children's Motrin to get the fever down, and she slept a couple more hours. Around 7:30am we checked her temp again and it was down. Now she just has a runny nose and is cranky because she's having a hard time sleeping. She's very clingy to me, so I decided to stay home from school (nice excuse, huh), but right now Loren's trying to put her down for a nap. Overall she doesn't seem too worse for the wear (is that the right phrase?) as she's been up playing all morning. Now I'm just concerned for a few plans this week -- tomorrow we're having an end-of-the-year party at school and I had planned on taking her, but I don't want to be the one that shows up with a sick kid. And then Saturday is her birthday -- I'm sure she'll be fine, but I don't want her to get everyone else sick. Guess we'll just have to wait and see . . .