First Rule

The first rule with Kids Sleeping Through The Night?

DON'T TALK ABOUT KIDS SLEEPING THROUGH THE NIGHT!!!

Don't say it out loud to your friends. Don't facebook it, don't tweet it, BBM it, text it, or for the love of God don't BLOG about it.

I know the rule.  I know it well.  Yet, I ever so foolishly broke that rule and mentioned successful sleep in my previous post.

The very next night, Lincoln got sick(er) and sleeping through the night came to a slamming-into-a-brick-wall halt!.  For your reference, this is what a kid with a fever of 104 degrees looks like:

Pathetic, isn't it? Well we got the fever down a bit and have been managing it with Tylenol for a couple of days.  So he's been up through the night numerous times for the past two nights, restless as hell and cranky as a bear.  Also... if I hear Ruby yell from her room "I need a drink of waaaaaaater!!!!" four times between the hours of midnight and 4am I'm going to.... uhhh... well, I'm going to get up and get her water because if I don't she's going to keep yelling for it and I will never get any rest.  I just hope her stuffed nose goes away soon so she can get back to sleeping with her mouth closed.

I am thinking that hopefully they both MAY be finally getting through the sickness now - but the first rule of Kids Feeling Better is that you DON'T TALK ABOUT KIDS FEELING BETTER!!!.