Hand, Foot, Mouth

Happy Mother's Day!!!!  This year I was treated to a trip to KidMed and a baby with a 104.7 fever.  Yeah Me!!!  Mike's sister and her family are visiting from Chicago.  Saturday we decided to take a day trip to Charlottesville (about 1 hr from Richmond) to take in some history.  Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello, has a very impressive visitors center and tour.  We left as Kolton was getting ready to take his nap.  Although he usually takes 2-3 hour naps I thought an hour would do and then he could sleep again on the way back.  So when he acted kind of tired I figured he was missing those extra hours.  The unfortunate thing was he was in the stroller so it wasn't until a few hours later that I realized he was burning up.  We got him some Tylenol when we stopped for lunch and by the time we got home he seemed to be in better spirits.  By evening it was clear we needed to take him in.  Kolton has never been this sick before!  The nurse practitioner diagnosed it as hand, foot, & mouth but he has not developed any sores yet.  His sleeping patterns have also been very erratic.  He slept most the day Saturday, hardly slept at all yesterday and is now already down for a nap after only being up a little less than an hour.  Time to call the pediatrician!  Although it cuts like a knife to see him this way I will admit it feels kind of good to be needed.  And oddly enough, that in itself was a wonderful Mother's Day gift.