Be sure to head over to A Couch With A View for a chance to win the Exergen Temporal Scanner
It's a cool thermometer with many advantages:
You don't have to wake up the kiddo (who already feels like crap)
You don't have to take the temp under their tongue (which involves lots of wrangling)
You don't have to shove the thermometer up in their armpit (usually not an accurate reading anyway)
And best of all: You don't have to put the thermometer in their little hoo-hoo like some alien rectal probe. (If the sickness involves any type of stomach bug, you don't want that bootie pointed at you. Yuck. It happened to me once. It was awful. I'll leave it at that.)
The temporal scanner allows you to get an accurate temp with a quick swipe across the forehead. Easy as pie.