my little Belle

Soooooo sleepy.
Must..keep..eyes..open.

I was awakened at 3:00am this morning by a whisper in the dark: "Mommy, I feel like I need to throw up." Out of the depths of my coma-sleep, I managed to mumble, "Okay, well...uh...go into the bathroom, okay?" (What a great mom! heheh) Thankfully after a few moments I roused myself to full consciousness and went into the bathroom to, well, hold her hair back away from the bowl (at least) and offer moral support. There has been a stomach-bug going around the school, but I suspected her problem was more likely just something she had eaten earlier (popcorn and soda at the movies, then more caffeinated-soda with dinner despite my protests). Fortunately I was right, and she was only sick the one time before climbing into my bed and falling back asleep, while I stayed awake and kept an eye out for any further "eruptions".

A few weeks ago this same daughter (Lindsey, my youngest) had come down with some sort of flu-bug. That morning when she woke up with a high fever, I immediately took my usual distractionary measures and asked her, "Can I put something on the tv for you to watch?" (while waiting for the ibuprofen to kick in). She feebly answered, "Yes. Beauty & The Beast." Words can't describe how that tugged at my heart. When she was really young, any time she had gotten sick we would lay in bed together and watch Disney's Beauty & The Beast, my most favorite of all the Disney movies. It was just our thing, and it always seemed to make her feel better. But it has been quite a while since those days (so long, in fact, that our copy of Beauty & The Beast is on VHS...heheh).

Now that she is 12-years-old and blossoming into quite the "pre-teen", it feels good every now and then to see that a glimmer of my "little" girl is still there, so I really don't mind waking in the wee hours to hear "Mommy, I feel like I need to throw up." And just this weekend I transferred our VHS copy of Beauty & The Beast onto DVD, just in case she ever feels like watching it.