Poor Sick Babies!

T1 and T2 are sick. Super sick. T1 started off with a fever of 103.5 on Thursday and has been bouncing back and forth with Motrin between 102 and 99. It's Sunday night. Her eyes are glossy, she's got under eye circles. She doesn't bounce, play, frolic. It's rather pathetic. We've had to miss her Christmas Parade with her Girl Scout troop on Saturday as well as the circus Saturday evening. She's going to have to miss the Girl Scouts ornament exchange tomorrow too because we just can't get her fever down. We missed Ms. Jennifer (her behaviorist) Thursday. We are having to miss Ms. Chan (her beloved OT) tomorrow too. She is so miserable she doesn't even care. I have no idea what's wrong with my precious wee girl, other than the fever and feeling overall blech, she's only said her belly has hurt a little bit. We've gone to just basic therapies to keep her on schedule, but pretty much dropped everything else because they are both just SO lethargic.


Then we get to T2. His started Wed. His fever has been more mild overall but more constant at a 101-102. He started coughing some last night and has lost his voice mostly today and has both legs completely cramped up now to the point of him crying he "lost the use of his legs" all day.  He barely eats, hasn't slept unless he's been laying on me, is in a foul mood, barely moves around. He's miserable. There's no way around it. But there's no real "symptoms". I would guess the flu if he were snotty or sneezy more or complained he ached. But neither have. He's been drinking fluids well, so we put off going to the doctor so we could see HIS ped. since he has such a complex history for a 5 year old.

We have done SO many craft projects since they got sick, it's disgusting. We made Christmas trees out of tissue paper, snowmen out paper plates, glittery pine cones, snow globes, ornaments... I'm running out of ideas of what to DO with them other than let them watch tv and play video games and read to them. T2 literally crawls on the floor like an sad, pathetic inchworm. For some reason, it hits them both worse in the middle of the night too. The Motrin wears off - and those 2 can take up some serious bed space now that they are bigger.

But, we got our Christmas tree up. This is the first time we've ever gotten it up and decorated this early, but had to think of something to do with them. The kitten LOVES to climb it.