Mother's Intuition wins again!

Illness update:

Nicole.....fever left Wednesday early evening. She was perky, fever free all night, and this morning when she woke up. She really wanted to go to school. So who am I to stop her? School was great. Alas, during lunch I look over to find her picking at her food, and with that hollow red-rimmed-eye look. I grab the thermometer...101.7!

fan-freaking-tastic.

I guess my bid for mother-of-the-year is now shot to heck since I sent my sick kid to spread the joy to the class. Oops.

Jared.....was absolutely miserable yesterday. Last night though, temp dropped and he was back to his perky self. Late last night, I checked on him, and he was roasting inside his own skin....104. Ibuprofen, and me checking on him every couple hours for the rest of the night. Woke up still hot, but then later his temp dropped and he seemed to be on the mend once again. Until after lunch....temp back up, and he looked and felt awful,and told me about it. Sheesh.

At this point, big flashing lights go off in my head, and I'm certain he has strep. So I call the Dr. and get the last appt of the day for him. I drag Nicole along because I have a plan...

We get there, and he is ten times more miserable and just wants to go home. Rapid strep test.....drum roll please.....POSITIVE! 100 points to Mothers Intuition! So, I then shove Nicole forward and rattle off that she's had a fever too so can we test her? Yep.....but her test was negative. Dr. did say that she may be too early though, so we cultured her and will find out for sure on Saturday.

So, no school for Nicole tomorrow...Jared has had his 1st dose of amoxicillin, and hated the taste of it so much that he spit half of it out on his shirt. Great. So now we'll be half a dose short at the end. I'll be making a bribery chart for him tomorrow, with gold stars and the promise of a toy in 10 days.

We caught Ellie with Jared's cup AGAIN tonight....she'll wake up with a fever Sunday morning so that I'll have to scramble for a nursery sub! It'll be great.

Lots of love and Lysol from our house!