Father's Day

Craig's first Father's Day started out interesting.

On Saturday afternoon, Gabe came down with a temperature of 101. Now I am freaking out because he had showed no signs of illness before this. He just woke up from a nap warm. And while this is not the first time he has been sick, this was the first time he has ever had a temp. Yikes! So, I forgot how much Tylenol to give him, so we call the on-call nurse. Meanwhile, I give him half a dropper of Tylenol, knowing we're going to be told to give him at least that much. The nurse calls back, tells us a whole dropper is ok, so I give him another half-dropper. Temp drops by evening, he sleeps ok through the night.

He wakes up with a temp again, but it is 100. At this point, he's acting sickly, but not totally lethargic. Still smiles, etc. So it seemed like in the afternoon, he was totally fine. Temp went back down, he was playing like normal. I put him down for a nap. Then he wakes up crying. Ok, not totally unusual, sometimes they wake up cranky. But this time, he was like inconsolable! I'm like, is he in pain or something? Freaking out again, I am. We take his temp again, and its like 96 something, seemed a bit low. At the time, Craig had it in his head that it was too low, like ER low, but later I realized we were not thinking very clearly because he just woke up and your temp goes down during sleep.

Anyway, I was more concerned about out of control crying. So we called the nurse again, and she said that if his temp was too low, he'd be shivering, etc. So, she just said that he is probably coming down with a cold virus or perhaps teething. His nose started running a bit, so I am inclined to believe that there was a cold virus in him.

Eventually, Gabe was fine and nursed and calmed down. And he has been fine ever since; fever stayed down and his nose stopped running.

Whew! So Father's Day didn't start off very well, but it ended well. Craig wanted to go to Five Guys Burgers and Fries for dinner (he really wanted to go to Red Robin, but since Gabe was getting over sickness, we didn't want to push our luck; We did take-out for 5 Guys). Their burgers are pretty good and you get a nice helping of fries for two people from one serving.