Sick baby Colin

Well, it finally happened. Colin got sick on us. For the first time in over 9 months of going to daycare, we got a call from Robin this past Thursday and said Colin had a temp of 102 and we needed to come pick him up. I took the rest of the day off work and came and got him. We just couldn't get the fever to break (gave him Motrin/Tylenol round the clock, pushed fluids, cool baths/washcloths, etc). Same thing on Friday, except Brian stayed home with Colin then. Saturday was the worst, but finally on Saturday night, we got his fever to go down, although he had the worst night sleeping since probably when he was just a colicky, newborn baby. Sunday, he woke up with this rash that covered his body pretty much from head to toe. It didn't seem to bother him much, which is good I guess. Just looked bad.
We got some pictures of his rash while we were in the tub. Slowly, between Sunday and Monday, he started to feel a bit better. Talked to a few nurses here at Children's and found out, he was probably have some sort of a reaction to his vaccinations he received the week before. When I looked up information on MMR rashes, it looked exactly like what Colin had, with the same symptoms of fever, rash, irritability, decreased appetite, etc. About 5% of children can react to the vaccinations, who knew? At least the poor kid wasn't sick for too long, it just seemed like forever.
Sent him to daycare this morning, hopefully he is able to get back into his routine, and hopefully we'll have our easy-going, mild-tempered child back. We miss that kid!!
On another note, Brian and I were able to squeeze in a movie, Blindside, on Saturday night/Sunday morning. It was a wonderful movie and we enjoyed being able to relax a bit. With it being so hot outside, literally over 100 degrees recently, staying indoors is something we look forward to!