Roseola and The Salad Eating Turtle

On Friday when Jeff arrived at Dede's house she said Hayden felt a little warm when he woke up from his nap. Jeff brought him home and said Hayden feels a little warm. I felt his forehead but dismissed it as he was warm from riding in the backseat of a warm car for 20 minutes. We grabbed our bag and headed out the door to St. Michael's Church picnic. Spent about $8 trying to win a cake. Well Hayden did anyway. He liked putting a dime on the numbers and watching the wheel spin. he would pick a different number every time and I bet at least 10 times the previous number he played was called on the next spin. He then went to the inflatable village and had a fun time bouncing (rather standing while the other kids bounced him around). We then ate some food, selected a duck from the duck pond, played a few pull tabs, tried for a few more times at the cake booth then headed home around 9:30. When we got home we checked his temperature and low and behold it was 104.1. Oops! I felt terrible. Here we stayed out playing and having a good time when he was running a high fever but you would never know it by his demeanor. Gave him so Motrin and off to bed he went. Hayden continued with high fever throughout the weekend all though did not act ill in the least bit. Once the fever broke he then broke out in a rash on his chest. Poor thing has roseola. He acts just fine and has maintained a good appetite. On Sunday Jeff found a turtle in the back yard so we spent some time playing with it and feeding it "salad". That is what Hayden calls lettuce. The turtle was too interested in us but Hayden was definitely curious about this new creature.