Our poor little sick girl...

Sick little Rachel with Bradley wanting to sit right next to her.

Today was Rachel's last day of school before Christmas, but unfortunately, she didn't get to go. She woke me up this morning at 5:30 and said her throat hurt, her nose was running and her tummy hurt. She was also burning up. So, I took her back to bed, gave her some Motrin for her fever and laid down with her. About 20 minutes later, she started gagging, and luckily, we made it to the potty in time for her to throw up in it. I figured that the Motrin had aggravated her already sensitive tummy, so we decided to go in the den and watch a Barbie movie. I was already worried that she would have to miss school today and I didn't want to talk about it with Rachel and make her sad. But, today was supposed to be a super fun day at school. They were having a class Christmas party, exchanging books with each other, having a book fair and even Santa was coming to visit. Also, ironically, this was the party that I had volunteered to organize. Thankfully, I had already arranged for Deborah to watch Bradley so that I could be at the party. So, she stayed home with the kids while I ran to the school to set up for the party. I also was lucky enough to have such wonderful moms in Rachel's class who were more than willing to pick up the slack and run the party. I came home from the school and took both kids to the doctor, where Rachel was diagnosed with strep throat and Bradley just has a nasty cold. Rachel felt so puny at the doctor, that she actually laid down on the examining table. Bradley was obviously feeling great, so he was jibber-jabbering and being brave and charming with all the nurses. Anyway, we got 2 prescriptions...one for each child and then came home to rest. Poor Rachel has been asleep most of the day on the couch. Bradley hasn't been able to stand that she's laying there and either wants to sit right with her/on top of her, or he likes to pat her head or face and say, "Ray Ray hurt". Rachel loves the attention from her baby brother and is tolerating him so sweetly. The above picture is just this evening where Rachel fell asleep (again) and Bradley climbed up next to her to watch tv. They are such sweet kids and sweet siblings!! I hope my little ones feel better before Christmas...hard to believe that's 1 week away!!