An Under the Weather Birthday for Harper

Yesterday Harper celebrated his third birthday really under the weather! We started the day at the pediatrician's office with a diagnosis of strep throat and scarlet fever. One thing we have learned about Harper over the last three years is he has a very high tolerance for pain and it is often hard to predict when he is sick enough to visit the doctor. He developed a fever on Thursday evening and missed school on Friday. After a consistent fever of 101 + through Friday night and an overall feeling of lethargy, we decided a visit to our pediatrician was inevitable. Mind you, through all of this, Harper was continuing to say he was feeling better and nothing was bothering him. The kid is as strong as an ox. After being told that his strep test came back positive, I asked Harper if his throat was hurting and he said, "nope I feel all better now."

We spent the rest of the day missing a few events we had planned since Harper would be very contagious until 24 hours of antibiotics. Luckily we had purchased a 52 inch flat screen LCD TV the day before so we enjoyed a full day of guilt free lazing around on the couch downstairs watching the Olympics.

Thanks to our friends Lisa and Mathew, they got Harper a birthday cake to enjoy and even brought over party hats and 3 orange birthday candles. Given the circumstances, it was a great birthday celebration.

Today, he woke up a new boy. It is amazing how quick the antibiotics took effect. Luckily his birthday party is next Saturday so he should be able to enjoy it with full energy.

My mom and sister are coming into to town to spend some time with us and also watch the kids while Matt and I spend our 10th anniversary away for a night.... I will try to write more later since there will be more hands to help with the wild ones and hopefully a bit more time to write.