I Should've Known ...

I was just thinking to myself last week that it's miraculous how healthy Henry has  been.  We had a cold front roll in over the weekend, and the high winds that always send Elvis and me running for the Kleenex didn't even faze him. Elvis came home sick yesterday around noon, and even then I was thinking how lucky we are that Henry seems to have such a strong constitution.  He played and squirmed as usual, and went down for his nap without a fuss (also as usual).  After naptime, it took him about half an hour to wake up and join the world which was kind of unusual.  Most days, he's wide awake as soon as his big brown eyes pop open, although there is the occasional day when he takes 5 minutes or so.  Even after he dragged himself out to the living room, he kept yawning and trying to curl up for another nap.  It was sort of weird, but then Elvis gave the little monkey a hug and noticed he was burning up.  Sure enough, he had a fever of about 101, but what really scared me was his listlessness.  The light that usually animates his sweet face was gone, and all he wanted to do was sleep.  We hightailed it to our local Target to pick up some medicine, and were almost home when it happened: That face, and that awful noise.  I put my hand up to his mouth just in time to catch the first round of what would turn out to be everything my sweetheart had eaten that morning, and more.  Thankfully, Elvis had a big empty plastic cup on the floorboard, so when my hand overflowed, I was able to catch the rest with the cup.  It was pretty unpleasant for the rest of the (thankfully short!) ride home, but Henry clearly felt better.  He smiled a little bit, and got right to playing when we got home.  He's still running a slight fever, but he's eaten reasonable meals since then, and none of it has come back up, thank Heaven.  And his mini stomach bug must have been super-exhausting, because he slept almost twelve hours last night!
Thank goodness he's feeling better, cause guess who woke up feeling nasty this morning?  Yay, Mama's turn ...