Happy 20 Month Birthday, Happy Thanksgiving and Continuing A Holiday Tradition

Thursday was Sophie's 20 month birthday!! Sadly, the poor birthday girl woke up from her am nap with a high fever and was sick the whole rest of the day on Thanksgiving. She was just sleepy and feverish and totally not herself. We gave her tylenol all day and tried to just let her rest and sleep. We were not sure whether we should take her out to her Nanny's for Thanksgiving dinner but her fever came down a bit and we decided to go ahead and bring her out since we had so much food we were bringing to the table. Unfortunately, she was just not herself when we got there and obviously did not feel well. She had a few moments of fun and activity but mostly was just not well. She didn't want to eat anything for dinner and was really just sort of melting down fast. So we left abruptly - left Mom O with all the dishes and didn't even get to have pie. We drove home and Sophie pretty much slept in the car and then went to sleep in her crib for the night. We checked her about every 15-30 mins and she was running a really high fever. At one point, the thermometer read 106. Not sure if that was accurate because it was hard to read her temp while she was sleeping but she definitely was running a fever between 104-106. We called the on-call nurse at her pediatricians office and around 1am, she woke up crying and shivering. We gave her more tylenol, put a cool washcloth on her head and held and rocked her until she was able to go back to sleep.

Then, on Black Friday she had a fever between 100-103 pretty much all day. I took her into the pediatricians office to have her checked out and they basically said it was likely a virus and just keep giving her tylenol. Last night we thought her fever finally broke. She ate a good dinner and it was down to 98 for a few hours before she went to bed. But this morning, it's up to 99.7 and she feels warm and definitely still isn't feeling good. She has no other visible symptoms although the Ped did say she had a bit of a sore throat and she thought possibly the beginnings of another viral rash. We're basically trying to just keep things mellow and keep giving her tylenol. Thankfully, she isn't running that super high fever anymore because that was just very scary. It has definitely put a cramp in a lot of our turkey day weekend fun (we were supposed to go out with my high school friends last night for the first time in a long long time, I was supposed to go black friday sale shopping yesterday, and most sadly for us all we were going to go to the Sesame Place holiday party this weekend) but of course Sophie feeling better is our top priority. We are hoping she is feeling 100% again real soon.

Her Grandma and Grandpa MacDougall are driving up to see her from South Carolina. Unfortunaely, last year when they visited around Thanksgiving she was sick, too. So, in keeping with our now annual tradition we will have a fun though low-key visit with Grandma and Grandpa while Sophie recuperates. Maybe a fun visit with Grandma and Grandpa is exactly what the doctor ordered.

We hope everyone had good Thanksgivings with their family and friends. We are so thankful for our little birthday girl on Thanksgiving and every moment of every day...