The haps...

On Eleanor's birthday, I made cupcakes and we sang to her. ( Her birthday party is now rescheduled for this Sunday evening.  Let's hope, after 2 reschedules, this actually works out.)  Then at 1:00 I went to work and Justin stayed with the kids (kids and Justin both had off for Thanksgiving) and they went to the park (after naps) and met up with the cru.  I got off early and joined them.  As everyone was leaving, I sat on a park bench and fed Eleanor with my friend Sarah, as she was feeding her baby Jane.  I looked at the park and thought about Henry's second birthday party being there, and was glad to still be surrounded by the same people.

About 1:00 AM Eleanor woke up with a fever.  I can't remember if that was the one that was in the 104's.  It's all cloudy now because she ended up having 4 nights in a row of high fever.  She ate almost nothing but frozen blueberries the last several days.  She lost a pound.  She started nursing like a demon; this after almost weaning herself the week before.  Her sleep was very erratic.  She was miserable.  On Thanksgiving, my MIL, Justin and I each took turns holding her while we ate our delicious meal (Thank you Paula!).

Henry spent his first night ever away from us.  He went with grandma back to her hotel room and I believe they stayed up pretty late watching cartoons, playing games, reading books and eating snacks.  The next morning, grandma cut his hair and they went for the continental breakfast, which I'm sure meant Henry ate nothing but bread.

Saturday morning, I took Eleanor to the doctor, while Justin took Henry downtown to the Thanksgiving parade.  We were there two hours and were told to come back again the next morning to try to get another pee sample.  Justin took her and she pee'd and then fell asleep in his arms --which made the hour and 30 min they were there go much faster. The doctor just called and she did not have strep or a UTI.  She must have just had a very nasty virus.

Eleanor is now fever free.  Seems mostly back to her old self.