Quarantined

After Shelby's nap on Thursday I noticed she was warm. She had a slight fever so I gave her some Tylenol. As the night went on, the fever got higher, finally spiking at 104.1. I hate nights like that. It's not that I am upset over the lack of sleep, it's that I worry so much about her. Her poor little body gets so hot, I feel like she must be frying inside! The next morning she fell asleep on the floor by my desk while I was working and slept for two hours. That's when I really knew something was wrong, because that is definitely not something she would do on her own.

So after four hours at the doctor- which included a chest x-ray, a shot, and a bribe from us that if she stopped crying we'd buy her a slide, we found out Shelby had the beginnings of Bronchitis.

So, any and all plans we had for the weekend went out the door. I didn't want to make her worse than she was, so I was determined to keep her inside and do my best to entertain her all weekend long. Just when I thought we had run out of things to do, we opened the front door and there was a big box with Shelby's name on it sitting on the step. My wonderful friend/VT companion/Primary president and her sweet family had put together an awesome care package for Shelby. The box was filled with crayons, a coloring book, socks, a blankie, a cute chick shaped pail, a flower, THREE Sesame Street books, and a very sweet card. Shelby was thrilled. She wanted to carry around her new presents all day. Thank you, Aguirre family!!

I definitely think Shelby is on the better side of this illness now. We'll just err on the side of caution and stay indoors for a few more days, just to be sure she is 100% better by Thursday when Jordan, Roy, Leila, Cole, and Lilly come to town!


Playing on her new slide.


Shelby was proud of her "bracelet" (from the hospital when she had to get her chest x-ray) and her band aid (from where she got her shot).


Playing on the slide some more...


Can you tell how excited Shelby was to get this package?