:( My baby is sick

So are Alan and me :(. i'm lying here in the bed in the nursery listening to the poor baby, asleep in her swing because it's more inclined and might help with the congestion, sniff sniff sniff in her sleep. i want to wake her up and suction out her nose so badly, but that would be BAD in so many other ways. Oh, it just breaks my heart.

It all really started yesterday (though that may have been why she was so noisy on Friday and Saturday, too). i got up Sunday morning planning to go to church, but D was acting fussier than usual. She would be a totally happy baby, then all of a sudden she'd just start crying. Like zero to screaming in 0.2 seconds. So i decided to skip church as i don't think she's ready (or maybe i'm not) for the church nursery, and i don't want to disturb people around me, and i'm always looking for a good excuse to skip church ;). Normally she does really really well just being held during the service, but i knew that wouldn't be the case yesterday. i was also kind of grumpy yesterday, too, for some reason. i just remember sighing more than usual lol.

We were also planning to go see my horse Sunny yesterday afternoon, and we were getting ready to leave. Alan put her in her carseat and she just started screaming. No particular reason other than being unhappy. So i was like, "i don't think she has a fever", felt her head, and said, "Or maybe she does..." Checked her temp (which, for all you not-yet moms out there, isn't as bad as it sounds), and it was 99.7. The doctor said at her one-month appointment to bring her in if it was over 100.4, so thankfully we weren't in freakout mode, but normally she's around 98.4ish, so i would consider this a low-grade fever. She also sneezed more on Saturday than usual and definitely more on Sunday. Around this time, i realize that *i* wasn't feeling too good either. Sigh.

It's one of those things that isn't too bad, but gets worse as the day wears on. i fell asleep around 6:00 or 6:30, and didn't wake up until 2:30 am, when i normally get up for my "shift". Came upstairs and fell asleep in the nursery bed until 5:00. Seriously. It's been a loooong time since i've gotten more than 10 hours' sleep in a day! i can't find the adult thermometer (and i've no interest in using the rectal one!!!!), but i must have had a lowish fever yesterday because when i woke up, i was all sweaty, so my fever must have broken. Ick! i don't have the kind of congestion my poor kiddo has, that's for sure, but i have been sneezing a lot and a bit of a runny nose.

As for Alan, well, i hope he's doing better than us, considering i left him to do all the work yesterday by falling asleep. He said D fell asleep around 8 and woke around 1 from congestion when i saw him at 2:30. i hope he can sleep a lot today.

i guess i'll be working from home today, at least a bit. There's some stuff i do that can only be done on Mondays. i hope my boss understands. Technically i think the daycare rules are only around a fever over 100, but i don't see any reason to risk infecting other children when i'm really too sick to go to work either.