The Weekend

Our weekend started out great, but closes with illness. On Saturday we went to Gracie's cousin's daughter's graduation (my nephew's daughter) about 2 hours away. Gracie was in a great mood and was happy to pick up another cousin on the way to enjoy the ride. I was hoping Gracie would take the opportunity to snooze for some of the two hour drive, but unfortunately that was not the case.

It was fun to see everyone and Gracie enjoyed the swingset, seeing the dogs, and playing with lots of kids. It was a hot day and with Gracie's seizure meds, she is much more sensitive to the sun and she doesn't sweat appropriately, so we had to keep our eye on her. She did take a pretty nasty spill when she forgot to step up to enter the garage, she fell right on the cement with her forehead. She has a pretty nasty bump that is turning purplish blue on her forehead. She was a pretty tired girl, but there was way too much to see to take a rest or nap.

She did fall asleep off and on throughout the ride home. She awoke when we got home, we put her jammies on and it didn't take her long to fall asleep again. She awoke at 2:30 a.m. this morning and was burning up with fever. We've been struggling to manage it all day long and can't quite break it. I just put her down to sleep and she was still running at over 102. She doesn't seem to have any other symptoms that I can tell so I'm not sure what is going on. She was in a fairly good mood today, but didn't have much energy at times. We read ALOT of books today, sang lots of songs, and did some good snuggling. I'm hoping the fever breaks soon.

Wishing all of you Fathers out there a very Happy Father's Day and to everyone...Happy Summer!

Love,
Lisa, Jeff, and Gracie