deja vu

I think we've been down this road before.

It started Monday morning, when Rebecca woke up with the runniest of noses.  Then Rachel got up and was coughing and stuffy. 

Tuesday night I was up with a crying, stuffed up Rebecca every 20-40 minutes from 9 PM until about 2:30, when she finally seemed to sleep deeply enough to get a few hours of sleep.  So I slept from 2:30 until 5:30, when I heard her again. 

Last night Rachel complained of a headache before bed, so I took her temp, and sure enough, 101.2. 

I braced myself for another long night last night, and although it took me a LONG time to go to sleep (because my ears were cocked, listening for one of them), we all slept all night!  I couldn't believe it.

Rachel got up fever-free, but in the almost 2 hours since she got up, it's gone back up.  Hopefully the advil I just gave her will kick in soon and she'll be feeling better.  Since she has to miss school (she's really sad about missing it), at least she should be able to play and enjoy being at home. 

And so begins the fall.  Last October it was the same way--the two of them passing germs back and forth over and over.  October and November were awful last year, since one of them was sick almost every week (and I was sick too during that time--hopefully we'll skip that part this year!).

Such is life with little ones, I suppose.  But knowing that doesn't make it any more fun to go through.