Christmas Time

Last weekend we had all of Katelynn's playdate friends and families over for a little Christmas party. Dan was a big help getting the house cleaned and ready for the party, I really would have been tired if he hadn't helped me out. Of course that morning when Katelynn woke up she said she wasn't feeling very well, but sometimes it's hard to really trust her when she says her tummy hurts so I just blew it off and we started our morning. After a couple of hours, probably around 9:30am she said she didn't feel good again and wasn't look very good either so we gave her a shot of motrin and it took her fever down and she perked up until about an hour before all of our guests arrived. She knew that everyone was coming and was really trying to be a trooper and stay in party mode, but after everyone came her and I pretty much parked ourselves on the couch and she leaned up beside me, poor little thing. I asked her if she wanted to go to bed and take her nap or if she wanted to wait until we opened the gifts, I'm sure you can imagine what she chose to do. We decided for the playgroup this year that all of our children are very spoiled and with a 3 (and soon to be 4 of us) having 2 kids that we didn't want to spend the time drawing names and shopping for more gifts or our kids getting more "stuff" to have in our houses, so we decided on buying all the kids a book, the same one so there would be no fighting. It actually worked out very well, me and one of the other moms ran to Barnes and Noble and picked out 1 book for the older kids and one book for the younger crew and we were all done. I took the books home and wrapped them all and under the tree they went, piece of cake, and who doesn't like to have a new book to read to their kid? After the kids opened the gifts it was off to bed for Miss Katelynn. She was pretty funny about it too, when I took her upstairs and laid her in her bed she told me she was just going to pretend that she was taking a nap and then would come back down to the party in a minute. She was out in a second and when she woke up from her nap (which was only 2 hours long, I was hoping for more) she sat at the top of the steps and asked me if everyone was ready for her to come back down because she was only pretending to be asleep. I had to explain to her that the party was already over and everyone had to go home and take naps too. She was still really warm when she woke up from her nap, so we took her temperature and she was at about 102 degrees, another shot of motrin went in. We then went downstairs and I wanted to keep in low key so we watched her new movie Tinkerbell and then she played around afterwards and was absolutely fine, her temp never went back up and she never said again the rest of the weekend that she didn't feel good. That was probably the fastest sickness I've seen, I wasn't really sure what to think of it except - Thank you!