Sick Babies

I am writing today's post running on very little sleep. Both girls have colds and didn't feel well yesterday afternoon. They were both running low grade fevers so before bedtime we gave them some tylenol to keep the fevers from spiking during the night. I went to bed around midnight and around 2 a.m. I woke up to Brylee crying and "barking." Poor baby has the croup.

We went into the bathroom and ran a steamy shower to help with her breathing. After she had settled down and was feeling slightly better we went back to bed and I got her to go back to sleep. I laid down and just when I had started to doze off again, she woke up coughing/barking and crying again. We had to repeat the steamy shower process over and she just wanted me to hold her. I had to come in the living room and sit in the chair with her. She went back to sleep and I ended up dozing in the chair until around 5:30. At that point, I was sore from being scrunched up in the chair and decided to try laying down with her. She did end up sleeping in the bed with me for a few more hours after that.

I felt sorry for Brandon because he had to get up at 5:00 for work and I know he didn't get much sleep last night.

Most of the day Allie and Brylee have both felt a little better today. We had to go out and get some groceries and so we went ahead and picked up a humidifier and some baby vick's vaporub. We are hoping for a much better night tonight. I hate when my girls are sick.

We won a free pizza from Papa John's for guessing the winning side of the coin toss for the Super Bowl. We decided to go ahead and redeem that this evening since we had to be out grocery shopping anyway. This makes two years in a row that we have gotten a free pizza from Papa John's thanks to the Super Bowl. I'm not complaining!!

Allie still finds ways to be funny, even when she isn't feeling her best. A few things she has said lately:

Allie - "I'm just praying to my head." (She means in her head, but always says to her head.)

Me- "Allie, what is daddy doing?"
Allie - "He's just watching his stupid show."

This is a fine example of her listening to everything we say. There is a certain show that Brandon likes watching that just annoys me and I am sure she has heard me call it his stupid show in the past. We try to make it a point not to say stupid...oops!

While we were upstairs playing.
Allie - "I need a tissue."
Me - "Go downstairs and get one."
Allie, wiping on her sleeve - "nah, I'll just use my arm sleeve."

Just a little peak into our day :-)

Now both girls are in the bed and I am getting ready to head that way! Goodnight!