New "ick"

Well, there's a new "ick" in town at El-Rancho-Oxenford. Yesterday morning Sophie woke up with a 102 fever and red splotches all over her face, neck, back, arms and legs. We called the pediatrician's office emergency beeper number and had the nurse tell us "Well, usually the doctor will want to see a baby with a high fever and a rash." (Uh - right...) Tylenol helped her fever drop quickly but the rash didn't go away so quickly. She was seen at 9:45 am and the doctor, after checking her out, said that it seemed to be a viral rash. These are apparently common in babies and toddlers and there isn't much you can do for them but give tylenol for discomfort. She hasn't had a high fever again all day but the rash is still present although it does fade sometimes and get stronger other times. As for how the poor kid is holding up, she seems to be pretty much herself except for not being able to sleep very well yesterday for naps and then staying up way way too late last night (almost 11pm) before we finally got her down. Today she seemed tired (that's what staying up till 11pm and waking up at 5:30am will do to ya, kid) but otherwise mostly happy. It's always an exciting new adventure here.

The real disturbing thing is that we finally got to meet my beautiful perfect new little niece, Liana Love, on Monday. Had I know that Sophie was going to come down with this new "ick" I would have never ever risked infecting my little niece. Thankfully, Sophie was really crabby being there (probably because she had the "ick") and didn't want anything to do with that baby and got pretty darn put out when I was holding her. So, that probably was in our favor because thank goodness so far so good and Liana seems to have not caught the virus and hopefully won't at this point.

Here are some photos of our little visit. I can't wait to get my ick-free hands on her again soon!!! Congratulations to Richard and Theresa and Welcome to the World sweet Liana Love!!