Jalen is Sick

Last Tuesday, Jalen started to get a fever around 102 degrees. We gave him some Tylenol because he was being fussy. The fever lasted through Wednesday then it broke on Thursday, his birthday. Then on Thursday night, his fever went back up to over 104. It was a rough night, he was really hot and woke up every hour. We brought him to the doctor's office on Friday and his fever went down again. We thought maybe it was some sort of an infection so poor Jalen had to endure some blood tests but those turned out to be negative. The doctor suspected it may something called roseola, where a child gets high fever for a couple of days then breaks out into a rash. Sure enough, the next day Jalen got a rash on his stomach and back. We were relieved because roseola is not serious.

Jalen is usually super active and always on the move. But when he was sick, all he wanted to do was cuddle up to you and fall asleep.

I actually enjoyed cuddling up to my little sick baby.

Jalen is one year old!

It's so hard to believe that our baby boy is one year old! The day that he was born is still so clear in my mind. Especially the four hours leading up to his arrival. So much has happened since then. The first month of his life was probably the longest month of my life, probably because I had to be awake for so much of it! Since then, he's turned from a newborn to chubby baby to toddler so quickly before our eyes. He's starting to learn how to walk and I can't wait for the next year.

Here's Jalen at his birthday dinner at Red Robin. He's getting a special treat: French fries!

Here's a sundae that's the size of Jalen's head!

Jalen didn't really know what to do with his sundae. We were expecting him to dig in but he was a little hesitant.

Jalen's Big Party

Last Saturday we had a big birthday party for Jalen. We invited all of Jalen's little friends. There were probably a dozen kids at the party under the age of one. I don't think Jalen realized that all of the fuss was all about him. He did enjoy having all of the kids around and eating his birthday cake.

Jalen and his pals (left to right): Katelyn (almost 1), Breanna (almost 3) and Matthew (9 months!).

Jalen's pals singing happy birthday to him (left to right): Matthew, Tyler (13 months), Alexa (9 months) and Henry (9 months).

Jalen grabs for the icing!

We let Jalen have at his cake but he actually wasn't very interested and just picked at the icing. I think by this time, he was too tired. He had a lot of excitement that day!

Jalen's New First

Jalen has been tentative about learning to stand or walk even though he is a really fast crawler. We are pretty sure that he's strong enough and has the balance to stand but he's just been reluctant to let go. More recently, we've been able to get him to take a couple of tentative first steps. We would bribe him with something he really wants, he's willing to walk a couple of steps then grab on to one of us. Check out this video.