Sick baby

I came home last night to a sick little girl, and it absolutely broke my heart. If there IS anything good about a sick child, it's that she still seemed as rowdy and energetic as ever - apparently my child is the "1 out of xxx" that gets hyper when she gets sick instead of getting all mopey/whiny. She was wound tight last night and didn't get to sleep until well after 9, and was thereafter up hourly, with the longest stint occurring between 2-3 when she just would not (or could not!) fall back to sleep.

Needless to say, 5:45 came VERY early for her this morning, and I even hit the snooze button a few times before scrambling out of bed and hurrying to get ready to run out the door. RP is always a trooper in the morning, but her facade crumbled pretty easily today and she was in tears by the time we got to the hallway in her daycare, and full-fledged sobbing by the time we got to her classroom. My heart literally broke when I handed her over to the teacher and she was crying but trying so hard to be brave as she said, "bye-bye" while tears were streaming down her face and her eyes were so heavy due to being sick and being oh-so-tired.

The joys of motherhood... sometimes suck. :(