Big 1 year old!!

So my little J-bug turned 1 last week!! We had a small family party for him on Saturday - it was lots of fun. I still haven't taken the time to get all of my pictures up so those are going to have to come later... He got lots of great clothes - a request from mommy because he's grown out of all the shower gifts we received. I actually started packing them up in the garage - 2 1/2 bins full so far!! Ridiculous. But they're all in great shape so we'll be reusing.

Jaydan's birthday was Thursday 2/19 and mine was the next day. For my present, he started WALKING!! YAY!! He's so big and now he hardly seems to crawl at all. Crazy. He has new walking shoes and we're ready to keep watching him get more and more coordinated on his feet!

Party Planner

We've planned a small family party for Jaydan's first birthday. All I can say is W-O-W!! I had NO clue how expensive this little gathering would get!! My brother-in-law was kind enough to reaffirm that it only gets worse from here too. Lovely. But, I can say that even though it's been a little stressful (I tend to stress a little over things like this) it's been fun to plan at the same time. I actually took the time to make the invites and plan to make thank you's too. We have a jungle theme going - matches Jaydan's nursery decor. Our first choice of theme was Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends... unfortunately, there is NOTHING out there!! I looked at ways to make the invites and decorations for the party but it turned out to be much too large an undertaking for me. So, we have jungle animals.

Still a Sicky

So Jaydan's fever never got below 101 by Tuesday - he woke up Monday morning at 103.6 and Tuesday morning at 103.4 so I took him to the doctor. She looked him over and diagnosed him with Roseola. I know, what is that? Apparently it's a common childhood disease with a 103-104 fever which breaks abruptly and is followed by a red, splotchy rash. Ick. So I left the doctor feeling better about what was going on.

Wednesday evening got a little tricky though. He hadn't eaten well all day, nor had he been drinking. So, as a result of that he didn't have enough wet diapers for the day and I was stressed about him getting dehydrated. I called the nurse on call and she told me to take him to Children's after hours at the hospital. Talk about freaking me out. We got him there and he (inevitably) started acting better. Once we got him into the exam room under the flourescent lighting, we noticed some splotchiness on his face. YAY!!

So after all the stressing, it was Roseola after all. This morning he still had a low grade fever but we were told last night not to be too concerned if that happened. After his morning nap his temp was back to normal and now his rash is all over his belly, neck and face. He looks sick now but everything is going to be fine!!

Sicky

Poor baby... Jaydan is sick for the first time! I actually didn't feel well this morning so I decided to stay home from church. Jaydan acted fine except that he wouldn't eat well. But, after he got up from his morning nap he was very flushed and BURNING up. Poor kid had a 102.9 fever!! So I gave him Tylenol... tried to get him to eat some bland food (got some banana in him) and am continuing to push the fluids. I feel so bad!