Maderville

FEVER
Mike has been out of town since early Monday morning and since I am a germ-o-phobe these days, Landry and I haven't been anywhere but Moms Morning Out and a quick trip to Walmart(both germ magnets, I know). Today, I had big plans to make Mike dinner and do a quick clean-up before he got home. However, Landry had other plans for her Mama today. She was taking a nap and I suddenly looked up and realized that she had been down for over 2.5 hours. I went to go get her up and she was burning up. I mean on fire. I immediately gave her some Tylenol, took her temp and called her pediatrician. They told me to bring her in immediately so in a mad dash I was out the door in less than 3 minutes. The funny thing about my girl is that she was in the best mood ever. I was in a panic trying to get her there and she was singing 'wwweeeeee!' as we went over the road ways we call a roller coaster here in Mississippi. She called out every car, truck, lake and boat she saw. She giggled and laughed and talked to me all while having a 102.2 degree fever. By the time we got to the doctors office she settled down and realized where she was. Bless her heart. They swabbed every hole in her head and she was not very happy about it. She tested negative for strep, the flu and RSV and she only read a fever of 99 degrees. When I got home, she didn't have a fever at all. Go figure. Other than the swabbing incident, she never got out of sorts. She is such a great child. She is so go with the flow. It has been since last December that she's even had a fever and for that I feel very blessed. She was sitting in her high chair eating a big supper when her Daddy finally poked his head in the door. She was so excited. She missed him while he gone and asked for him quite a few times but it seems like she always knew he was coming home to her. He gave her a bath and got her ready for bed. We threw the ball and played kick for a while and she was beaming the whole time. She especially loved story time. The best memories are made from nights like these and I feel so blessed that we have such a happy, resilient little girl. I hope she always has such a wonderful spirit. It will serve her well in so many of life's circumstances if she can hang on to it.