Tonight when we got home we were trying to give some food to Ryan and he was pretty fussy. I tried all of his favorite foods but he kept fussing so we put him down to crawl – and he kept fussing. That is not at all usual for Ryan. Grace noticed that he felt really hot, so I checked his fever and it was 101.
Oh no! This is his first fever and we were freaked out, of course. We checked his fever like 10 times and it ranged from 101-102.1. We gave him Tylenol and tried to calm him down. Ryan hates to cuddle, but tonight he kind of liked it – very sweet. He also seemed quite tired so we prepared his bath (luke-warm) and he liked that and cuddled him to sleep (he loved that for once!)
We don’t know why he had a fever – the last time we took him to the doctor, she asked us if he had ever had an ear infection (which he hasn’t) so she told us to watch out for signs. This could be from an ear infection, although he hasn’t really been giving any signs of that, other than this fever. Regardless, we will probably take him in to the doctor to make sure as we were already told to watch out for any signs. His fever is a bit lower now and he is sleeping peacefully, let’s hope that it was nothing.
It has been a rough week for Ryan – lots of tumbles and falls as he tries to stand up against everything. He cut his finger yesterday when he stuck it into the radiator –we had no idea there was anything sharp in there! (it is now protected). And his upper front teeth are coming in so they are really bugging him – you can see the edge of one of them. All of this in one week!