I'm "Sick"!

So R woke up Thursday and voluntarily decided to lay down on the couch. J found her there when he got up, which is pretty unusual because typically she knocks on our bedroom door and wants us to get up with her to make breakfast. He notices she is there and calls out, "Good morning, R! C'mon, let's have some breakfast!" She doesn't move and instead says that she wants to lay there and watch a movie.

He let her watch some "Princess and the Frog." Then, a little later while I was helping her get her clothes on, she told me she was "really tired" and wanted to lay down again. At first I dismissed it as her being a little silly. And then, because she was dillydallying so much at picking out her clothes and putting them on, and because RUS had a poopy diaper, I told her I was going to go change RUS and that she had "better have her clothes on" when I got back. When I came back a few minutes later, though, she was still completely undressed, hugging her clothes, and laying on her bed. I got her dressed, but then she went over to the couch and just lay there, not even looking at anything. So we made the decision to just keep her back from school.

Good thing, because she literally did spend the whole day--until just before dinner--resting and not feeling much like doing anything. She threw up once, too.

That night, when I was reading her a story and putting her down to sleep, she says to me, "Mommy, I'm going to be sick tomorrow, too."

I said, "I don't know, you might feel better in the morning."

"No, I'm going to be sick for two days and then I'm going to feel better."

Not coincidentally, she would have gotten better just in time for the weekend.

And sure enough, she tried to pull the "I can't go to school today, I'm sick" routine again on Friday morning. I can't believe this is starting already. (For the record, she was perfectly fine and had a great day at school on Friday.)