Harper's First Fever AND Food Allergy

Harper's first fever came on February 13th, 2014.  She wasn't acting grumpy or fussy, but I noticed that she felt so darn warm that morning.  Her temperature was at 99.6 at this point, so we took her to Vicki's like normal.  We told her about it, thinking that it was just from teething.  She monitored her fever all day and she said it stayed the same.  I took her temperature later that evening and low and behold, she had a temperature of 101.4.  Poor thing.  This was at 7:00 at night of course when we couldn't get an appointment with the doctor.  Luckily, we know our doctor well and texted him with what was going on.  He made a house call around 9:15 that night.  He determined it to be an ear infection and noticed her lungs sounded "wet."  He put her on an antibiotic and told us to pick up a nebulizer in the morning.  We picked up the antibiotic from the Walgreens pharmacy, since they stay open until 10:00.  Boy was I thankful for our Snuza that night.

We are having lots of fun trying new foods with Harper.  So far she has tried Rice and Oatmeal cereals, green beans and peas.  She hasn't been too interested in any of that.  She pushed most of the food out of her mouth with her tongue.  She didn't actually consume much of it.  Similar to how she takes medicine.  Last night we tried bananas with her.  She LOVED them.  She was going for the spoon and actually holding it in her hands.  She was actually swallowing the food!  JJ and I were so excited to see her interest.  We of course captured the moments.

Fifteen minutes later, we are getting ready for bed and putting Harper's PJ's on.  I notice a rash developing on her back.  She broke out.  My daughter has an allergy to bananas.  I was so surprised.  Josh and I don't have any food allergies, so we didn't think we would have any problems with Harper.  She is such a strong girl.  I'm confident that if I didn't notice it on her back, we never would have known.  She is just NOT a fussy baby.  Once again we texted the doc.  He said to pick up some benadryl and give that to her.  JJ picked up the topical cream, when she actually needed the oral medicine.  So he had to run out to another place.  The doc said that was a classic new dad mistake.:)  I suppose tomorrow we will just have to try sweet potatoes.