Disco Fever

Ok, we aren't exactly dancing over here but Maddie does have a fever... she's been at 100-102 since Friday morning. She woke up burning hot. We recently had a friend who's little boy had a febrile seizure so that was first in my mind. (Thank you Heidi again for sharing your story!) We've been giving Motrin every six hours but it hasn't seemed to make any difference. We also have been giving her luke warm baths and placing a washcloth on her forehead when she's nursing (which has seemed like every waking minute during the day). Sleeping has been nil in our household but I guess every parent goes through this at some point, right? And it's surely bound to happen again.

Being new parents we did take her into the doc this morning (Saturday-hope they don't have emergency plumber rates!). Of course she didn't have a fever the nano-second it took the doctor to take her temperature but she did have swollen lymph nodes and enlarged tonsils. He checked for strep but that came back negative so he said it's probably just viral and to keep an eye on the fever and watch for any other symptoms. It could be teething but I'm glad we went to rule out ear infection or something more serious.

Unfortunately we missed Shane's 2nd birthday party.. darn it! We just got into the "birthday party" club and had to miss our first event! :) I'm sure everyone had a great time, so sorry we missed it.

Hopefully she'll be feeling better before Papa Dimino and Grandma Lena arrive on Thursday. They're coming out from Denver to see Miss Maddie and we're just starting to get good sleep at night and be a "happy baby" during the day. She is also scheduled to get her vaccinations on Thursday afternoon.

Other than being clingy, we have had some giggles out of her so it could be worse!

Here are her 9 month JC Penney photos I promised you. The scans aren't so great (I made them lower resolution to get them to upload) but the copies of the photos turned out nice, now I just need to cut them out and distribute. I'm not very impressed with their photos but they're a cheap option and it's relatively easy for us to make an appointment and go.

Here's my attempt a few weeks ago.


Here's their attempt.. ok, a little better. lol






This one sums up how the appointment went! :)



We're going to have her 12 month birthday photos taken while we're in WI by my friend Trisha Faber. She just gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, Kora Lynn. (She's actually the daughter of my parent's friends but we didn't meet until we found each other online while planning our destination weddings.. so technically we haven't actually "met" yet!) She's very talented and I can't wait for our session!