Spare Moment

Those are few and far between around here. Penny has been really sick since waking up with a fever Friday morning. I think she was probably sick Thursday evening b/c she was very hyper at gymnastics, which was noticeably uncharacteristic. She has no other symptoms besides the fever. She threw up Friday night (once*), but I think that was a result of the fever and not the other way around.

*and by "once" I mean one episode of continuous vomiting until she had nothing left.

Since then the fever has been up and down, up at night and down during the day. I did take her to the doctor Saturday morning even though everyone told me it was just a virus. And it was, just a virus. This is the first time she's really been sick though aside from that one ear infection early on so I'm definitely guilty of the first-time-mom syndrome. Anyway, they said to bring her back if it wasn't gone by Monday. But now I don't know if that means if she wakes up tomorrow with a fever that I should take her, or wait to see if it goes away on Monday and then take her Tuesday. Anyway. Turns out sick Penny at night is even more of a handful than not-sick Penny at night. Who'd a' thunk it? The sweet, extended hugs and snuggles I like, the hour-long crying jags, not so much.