Dance Recital / Date Night

The girls had their first dance recital. They both did great and had a lot of fun.  Pictures were only allowed at dress rehearsal.  Here they are doing some poses before heading to the actual recital.

Eric took them to the recital. That was their "date".  Thankfully I had gone to the dress rehearsal, as Kjetil battled an increasing fever all day on Saturday and he and I stayed home, more on that in a bit.

She did such a good job! During rehearsal, the little girl next to her decided to throw her spider at Laurelei and Laurelei just kept dancing. I hear that at the recital however, the little girl decided to sit down, and so Sweetness joined her half way thru the song.  

By now CJ is a pro about getting on stage and doing her thing.  The lighting wasn't as bright during her dance, but she did great!  Also I hear, during the finale, after getting on stage CJ moved to stand next to her sister and to "help her out".  Both of them so sweet and caring.

By the time they got home Kjetil was in bed.  At 4:30pm when he woke from a 3hr nap he had a fever of 103.  I gave him some motrin and a cool bath to bring it down.  He went to bed about 8pm.  He woke up about 10pm burning up, gave him another round of motrin as his temp was 104.3 then waited for it to take effect.  It continued to go up and was at 104.8 at about 10:30, another cool bath for him and we were able to get his temp down to 103.7.  About forty-five minutes later it was down to 102.7.  He woke up at 1:30am and was again burning up, a quick temp check showed he was at 105.3...and not able to give him another dose of medicine yet, I took him to the ER. Our "date".

It took over 3hrs and 2 doses of medicine and lots of cool wet wash clothes, but we finally got his temp down to 101.  He has  had no other signs of illness, just this fever that spikes really high and is hard to bring down.  The doc noticed a slight upper respiratory issue and thinks we may have caught the flu early and sent us home with Tamiflu and strict orders to keep his temperature down or to bring him right back in.  Sleep was about all he was able to muster today.

 He was NOT happy about the wash cloths.  He would grab them without opening his eyes and toss them off.

His temperature is trying to creep back this evening, I pray that we can keep it under control and everyone get more sleep in our own beds tonight!