Update on the 12 month shots

So not only was the 12 month visit traumatic with the blood draw & shots, but the fun continues.... Apparently, it is not uncommon for a child to run a high fever after getting the MMR immunization. This is exactly what happened to Wacko! Thursday night he spent the evening with my parents so that Aaron & I could go to his office Christmas party. My parents said Jackson was not acting like himself - not playing as much as he normally does, but of course ate normally. He started running a fever that night & when we woke up in the morning, he was burning up. I called in a sub & stayed home with him (twist my arm, right!?). He was relatively fever free all day, but then that evening his started getting worse. At 6:30 I gave him some Motrin, but at 7:30pm we took his temp and it was 103.5. OMG! He had never run a fever that high and of course we were freaking out. I called the on call Dr. and she said to give him lots of cool liquids to drink, give him a bath and then at 10:30 give him Tylenol. This is what we did, but we didn't sleep much that night. I was worried sick. She said to take him to the ER if he acts listless even when the fever was down, if he's so sleepy he can't be awakened, or if he is inconsolably crying. Luckily, none of these things occurred and he woke up in the morning sans a fever. When he woke up, it was clear his fever had broken sometime in the night because this is what he looked like:

This was short lived. He began running a 102 fever yesterday afternoon and refused to nap. He did lay on my chest on the couch just watching TV with me for like 2 hours. That is so unlike him to be still for that long. Again came the worry. Finally, about 5pm the fever seemed to subside and he has been fever free since. We did give preventative Tylenol/Motrin throughout the night just in case, but he hasn't been warm today yet and this is what he is currently doing: