sick=sleepy SJ

SJ never really sleeps much.  He has an internal alarm clock.  Whether he goes to bed at 8:30 p.m. or 10:00 p.m., he is always up by 6:30 a.m.  Except on a school day, then he is like any other kid and needs to be coaxed out of bed.  It was a Sunday, so he is back to his automatic schedule.  Yesterday, he was still asleep at 7:30 a.m.  I should have known that something was off.  He barely ate his 3 slices of casein free french toast, which is very unusual.  He got dressed for the day and was just sitting on the couch.  I took his temperature and he was 100.7.  I decided that he would stay home from the family picnic that we were scheduled to go to.  I took Bob and left him at home with my husband.  My husband said he ate some spaghetti for lunch and then went to sleep.  He was still asleep when Bob and I returned at 4:30.  He finally woke up at 6:00.  He still had a fever and wasn't hungry.  He was playing Wii with Bob and relaxing on the couch.  Around 8:00 p.m., he put on his pajamas and went back to bed.  He woke up this morning at 7:15 a.m. with no fever and back to his old self.  He polished off 4 casein free pancakes and took his supplements.  He then said, "Hey Mom, are we going to the pool today?"  Looks like he is back to his normal self.  It was nice to see that his self-prescribed bed rest was all the medicine he needed.