Three of my 5 kids are sick, 2 of those are heading to the doctor today. Katie has been covering up her ears and telling off anyone who decides to test their lungs out. I am not fully convinced that she has an ear infection, but I’d rather be safe than sorry.
Fevers are pretty high – in the 102-103 range. I’m keeping them down the only way that has ever worked – rotating ibuprofen and acetaminophen. (Motrin, then 2 hours later Tylenol, then 4 hours later Motrin again… repeat) I didn’t learn this trick until Abby (4) came down with a fever when she was a baby that would not go away and freaked me the crap out. One nurse I talked to told me to give her Pedialyte and I put her in the “crazy ass people” list ever since.
Kids when they’re sick like to cuddle. I, believe it or not, love to cuddle. Not that I want the kids to be sick all of the time, but it is nice when they aren’t splitting up in 3 different directions to destroy whatever they can get their hands on.
That is the newest trick the triplets have up their sleeves. It used to be that they would all 3 go to a certain spot and get up on whatever there was to get up on with Megan taking the lead as the official monkey-doodle of the house. She would then pull Katie up and the two of them would get Lauren up. Now, they are all monkeys and can climb on whatever they want – quickly. Needless to say, I spend most of my days running after kids yelling “NO!! Down!!” while they laugh at me.
At least my kids think I am funny.
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