My Sick Little Monkey

For the last two days I have been dealing with a sick little Jantzen. On Friday Jaron came home from school early because he was sick and had a fever of over 100 degrees. His only lasted for half the day and then he was back to normal, there went his perfect attendance record at school.

Jantzen started getting sick yesterday morning around 1:30 am. He started crying so I went to check on him, he seemed fine so I went back to bed. About a half hour later he came into our room and climbed into bed with us. He is so wiggly when he sleeps so neither Josh or I got much sleep. When I woke up Jantzen was complaining that he didn't feel good. He was warm so I took his temperature, sure enough he had a fever over 101 degrees. I gave him some Tylenol and hoped it would work like it did with Jaron. It turned out that it didn't work that well and he got a fever as high as 103, almost to 104 degrees. He didn't do much yesterday but sleep,lay on the couch, and want me to cuddle with him. He doesn't get sick very often and when he does it doesn't usually last very long. This time was different...

This morning he woke up again around the same time and just came into our room. After a little while being in bed with us he said he had to throw up. Josh took him in the bathroom. He ended up doing this twice and the second time he didn't quite make it all in the toilet. I was the lucky one who got to clean it up, while dry heaving myself. Jantzen was still burning up and didn't sleep very well, not to mention we didn't sleep well either for the second night in a row. When Josh left for work around 4am he moved Jantzen over to his side of the bed so I wouldn't be squished, but as soon as he left Jantzen moved right back next to me. From then on he just wiggled and kicked me and kicked his legs on the bed. I told him to stop, but he didn't. I think we both finally got to sleep around 5:30 or 6 (I have to get up at 6:30 to wake Jaron up for school) and I got woken up by a slap in the face by Jantzen. He, of course, was asleep so I couldn't get mad at him. When he woke up I asked him why he slapped me and he said, "you shouldn't have said up in space". He's talking about the high five Josh just taught him where you say, "give me five up in space, slap your face" and you slap the persons face.

He still had a fever when he woke up but it wasn't as high as the day before. About midday his fever went down below 100 degrees so I thought he was better, even though he didn't really act like it. He was still wanting to cuddle and take a nap with me. I have no problem these days taking a nap, especially since I haven't been getting much sleep at night. At one point today he felt good enough that he wanted to play a motorcycle game on the Wii so I let him. I went upstairs for a few minutes and then I heard silence. I went down to check on him and he was asleep with the controllers in his hand.



We did get our nap in today, thanks to Jaron's teacher who brought him home from school for me. The rest of the time Jantzen has been cuddling with anyone he can, even Jaron. I really hope he gets better because I don't know how many more nights Josh and I can go without sleep. I guess he's just getting us prepared for Jaedyn.