As You Are So Shall You Parent...

So last night Avery woke up at 11:30pm earlier than usual and you tried to get her back down but it was no dice..so you slept in her big-girl bed five feet away but it didn't help and she woke up again and again and again crying and sobbing and nearly hysterical.

So then by 12:30am you brought her into bed with you and hugged her as tight as any lover but she wouldn't stop shaking and you hugged her and then let her go and then hugged her harder but she kept waking up and you didn't know what the hell was wrong and a few times you were pissed cause you thought she was just afraid of the dark or something but she kept waking up and sobbing and she couldn't tell you why.

You even enlisted mom to come in and help at 1:30am but by 1:45 mom was gone and your little girl was waking up every 20 minutes and nearly hyperventilating. So by 4:30am you weren't peeved anymore you were just dead tired and she was spitting and dripping saliva she was crying so hard and you still had no idea what the hell was going on.

So by 7:15am mom walked down with Logan and couldn't believe the battle you had gone through and she said to you "maybe she's sick" and the thought had never really occurred to you but she's NEVER like this and the fact is you never get very sick. You haven't taken a sick day in like 12 years and you'd NEVER let anything less then a full blown fever or flu keep you down and the fact is you never even considered that for your little girl. And then Laura takes out the thermometer and sticks it in Avery's ear and then announces that she has a fever of 101. And in a way you felt like a great dad for bearing the last 8 hours and boy did that feeling go right out the window in three seconds when you realized you never considered the most obvious thing...

And later that morning you confessed your idiocy to Laura but it didn't help much. You still felt like a giant tool anyway and sort of felt like you should apologize to your daughter and Laura took this picture of Avery napping and you wondered if she was dreaming of better parental care the night before...