Sick baby

It happened. My poor baby had her first fever and it was just pitiful. She pretty much had constant fever for 2.5 days, 103 at its highest, 100.8 at the lowest with Tylenol/Ibuprofen rotated every 3 hours. With medicine, she actually was in decent spirits, just no appetite and wouldn't be put down. Turned out to be a viral exanthem like I suspected (seeing lots of it at work) - roseola. Her fever broke night before last, then yesterday the classic rash started. She's almost back to her playful self, and we're still working on eating - allllll she wants is "chzzzz" (cheese) and even turned down Chickfila nuggets. What?!

This was last night - the rash has tripled since then but doesn't bother her!

Of course this messed with her sleep habits - it's always 1 step forward, 18 steps back with her in the sleep department. One day, my sweet girl will sleep 11 hours straight at night like all my patients brag about!

The day before she got sick sporting her "ponytail!"

One of my all time fave pics. She loves my parents' piano - it was my Granddad's, and it has a player in it so Kate walks over to it, bounces her knees and bobs her head, waiting for us to turn it on. When we're tired, we may or may not hide because she really wants to be held and dance fast ;)

Last night we went to our friends' house to watch the Gators BEAT Tennessee! Don't ask me any details about the game - we've got a busy toddler on our hands! Kate LOVED exploring at their house, especially trying to get her hands on the cat (she's never seen one!) I just know we won, and that something really exciting happened towards the end once we were back home when I was trying to put Kate to sleep and Daddy screamed like we won the jackpot lotto cheered reallllly loud. Of course Kate didn't want to go to sleep, Daddy was all crazy in the living room! 

Her new thing is that she loves to walk around, holding TWO people's hands.

 

Start 'em young, raise 'em right :)