Poor Baby Hailey!  She had a really rough weekend.  It all started this past Friday when she went to the doctor’s office Friday morning for some vaccine shots.  After the doctors, Jamie dropped her back off at school and we got a phone call an hour or so later saying Hailey had a fever.  At first we thought maybe it’s just a brief thing from the shots and the school gave her some tylenol to help bring the fever down.

A few hours later we got more calls and the fever was getting worse so Jamie rushed over and picked her up to bring her home.   We did the typical things you should do when a baby has a fever, we kept her cool by giving her a bath, which she hated - she normally loves her baths.  We tried putting damp wash cloths on her forehead or back to help cool her down but she’d jump as soon as they touched her skin and cry.  Poor baby was shivering with anything even slightly cold.  We managed to get her to a comfortable level before she went to bed Friday night.  She woke up feeling warm but not bad Saturday morning but now we had a new twist.

Something that was completely alien to Baby Hailey!  She wouldn’t eat!!  Jamie made her a nice breakfast with peaches and little orange slices and a muffin.  She ate some of the muffin but wouldn’t touch the fruit which was a sign right off the bat that something was wrong.  The rest of the day she wouldn’t eat a thing, she totally refused lunch and dinner.  Luckily though she drank lots of juice to keep her fluids up, I felt so sorry for her and wished I could just make it all go away.  She was miserable.  Her temperature at one point peaked at 104 degrees and we called the doctor for advice.  They told us to just keep doing what we were doing, that it was all a reaction to the shots and to increase her dose of Tylenol.

Sunday morning came around and we were blessed that the fever was finally gone - and unlike Saturday it stayed gone the whole day and night.  However Baby Hailey wasn’t totally back to normal just yet.  She refused to eat most of the day and what’s worse she refused to drink most of the day too.  She even turned down milk, which is not like her at all.  We took her outside for awhile to get some fresh air and eventually got her to eat half of a lunch we made for her which was great.  She still refused her juice but when she saw me drinking some fruit punch she wanted some from my glass.  After a few sips and she got the taste of it, I let her watch me poor my glass into her sippy cup and she went to town.  Later last night we got her to eat the rest of her lunch and drink a bottle of milk before she went to bed.  Still no fever but hopefully today her appetite will return - don’t want Baby Hailey to lose to much weight!!

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Sunday morning is usually daddy’s ritual to make pancakes, it is baby Haileys favorite! This morning I place her plate of cakes on her high chair and added syrup for the first time.  Hailey usually eats with her fingers and the syrup is so messy i dont give it to her.  I fed her the first bite with a fork to see if she noticed the difference.  Sure enough her face lit up as she says hmmmmm!  I put the fork on the counter, and Brad and I began to dig into ours.  She just sat watching and would not pick up her pancakes?  She is the queen of food and especially pancakes, I was confused why she was refusing to eat them?  She was looking at the fork I put on the counter and although her vocabulary couldnt put together “mommy give me the fork” , i could sense thats what she wanted.  I laughed to my self, and said “Hailey your just a baby, you dont know how to use a fork”! (She has never even held a fork let a lone try to feed herself).  Sure enough she picked  up the fork in her right hand jabbed a piece of fluffy cake and aimed for her mouth!  I was in shock she was refusing to eat with her fingers and wanted to use a fork like mommy and daddy!  She fed herself with a fork eating the rest of her breakfast.  I of course had to get this on camera, what an exciting accomplishment.  This is why i love being a mother, its at moments like this that are so special.  My little angel is smarter than i thought!  Just when I think I have her figured out she knocks me down with a suprise.  Thats my baby!!

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Breakfast at Haileys!! Her very first pancakes and as you can see she was definitely diggin them! I know how to bring a smile to my girl’s face, people always say the way to her heart is food!  She didn’t even save a bite for mamma! I thought she would share with me but I didnt stand a chance, when she is hungry stay out of her way!  Go Hailey go!

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