sickos

We have been sick in our house since Saturday. Well, I've been sick since Saturday, Elliot and Ada just started to get sick yesterday. It has been interesting to see how illness ravages through our family in very different ways. When I get an illness it creeps through my system, effecting me in small ways but taking FOREVER. For Elliot, sickness races through his system in a firey rage, causing him to sweat through his clothes, blankets, and skin - but is usually gone as fast as it comes on. Ada, fittingly, is a combination of the two. She gets a fever, but a mild one. And her symptoms come on in a controlled but swift pace, stick around long enough to be a bother and then calmly exit stage left. This illness has been particularly bad for Ada in that it has lasted more than one day, and her fever has yet to break. I have mentioned before how Ada gets much more cuddly when she is sick, and that is true this time around, although it is also accompanied by an urge to be in charge. So we spent last night and this morning trying our best to comfort Ada, all while she spent every ounce of energy she had snuggling into our sides, grabbing our hands and wrapping them around her settling in, and then moving our hands, settling in, over and over again. I'm about to go home and I half expect to walk in the door to find Elliot in the form of a cocoon with Ada happily sitting in the middle surrounded entirely by her Daddy cocoon, playing with her favorite toys, and slowly sweating out her sickness.