It brings a tear to your eye

We were eating supper tonight and as a special treat, Isaac and Hannah got some candy corn (Hannah's favorite candy) for desert. As she's sitting there eating it, we've discussed the colors, we've discussed how fun it would be to dress up as a candy corn for halloween, and she says,

"Wait Mommy, I have to tell Jesus sumpin. Dear Jesus, At Christmas, please let Aunt Angie have her baby. Amen."

I almost burst into tears!

The only thing I can think of is that Angie promised to get her some candy corn when we were there in July and we all forgot about it...but Hannah remembered and remembered that we pray for her new cousin to be. Makes you all mushy inside. :")

Yeah for Coxsackie Virus

Are you sensing a pattern here? Yep...just got back from urgent care, yeah rah!

Chris called me at work, "Do we have Benadryl?"

Yeah, why? I think Hannah is having an allergic reaction to her antibiotics, either that or she's got a lot of bug bites. What's she doing? Well, she's got big splotches all over her body. Huh, well, do you think she needs to go to the doctor? Nah (yeah, that's a Dad for you) she's playing and fine. Okay...well, I guess I'll see you when I get home.

I rolled in around 1 and took one look at her, loaded her up in the van and off we went to Urgent Care. What Daddy had failed to mention was that she had the "splotches" on the palms of her hands and on the soles of her feet. After a short wait (really, 15 minutes on a Saturday afternoon isn't too bad) we were seen and told that since it's so late into the antibiotics (for the Scarlett Fever) it's more likely Coxsackie Virus (Hand Foot and Mouth is a version of it). And here's the kicker...since the incubation period is 10-14 days....we probably picked it up at the doctor's office when we went in for the SF! ARG!! So we'll just wait for the sores in her mouth to form....joy joy....

Yeah for Scarlet Fever!

On Wednesday we dropped my mom off at the airport. We had a wonderful visit with her and we accomplished so much while she was here.

Hannah was particularly sad to see her Grandma and "Sleep-over Buddy" leave. On the way home from the airport she was quite pouty and said that Grandma hadn't stayed for very long (~only 29 days :) ). So I wasn't surprised that my little Drama Queen didn't want to eat her lunch. I put Isaac down for a nap and she watched some PBS while I cleaned up around the house and paid bills. Around 2pm she came and said her tummy hurt (well, you didn't eat any lunch!) She looked a little pale and only ate 3 bites of apple sauce. When she suggested a nap, I thought, "Wow! She is really milking this for all it's worth...or she's sick. :)" She slept for two hours and then moped around the house until supper time. At supper time she picked at her food, looked at me, looked at Daddy....and then shared her breakfast with us....and again.....and again. :( Poor thing. After her bath she was supposed to be going potty before climbing into her jammies, and she came back wiping her legs with a towel...she informed me that she had "spilled" again but that she was drying off with a towel. If only she had also cleaned up the ring on the floor around the toilet!

The next day I had to work. I warned our sitter that she hadn't been feeling well. She said she would call if Hannah got sick again. But when I got home, things had gone well all day and she had eaten and played well. But at bath time I discovered that she had a rash all over her torso.

So this morning, off we headed to the doctor. He took one look at her rash, heard what she had been doing, and said, "Let's do a strep test. I think she's got Scarlett Fever." Ten minutes later he confirmed it. So we're on antibiotics for 10 days, isolation for 48 hours, and a wait and see game for Isaac.

Hmmm....does the left side of my throat feel a little sore? :)

So....we're duck-sitting

Yep, imagine that. The little girl who had one point had over 30 of the rubber/stuffed variety, now has a real duck in her back yard. Thankfully, we're only duck-sitting for her friend Natalie from school.

Daffy (whom Hannah has renamed "Hannah" for the week) arrived at Natalie's house about a month ago. He was either blown into their yard after a storm or dumped after Easter (people are crazy I tell you.) He's a little brown duck that is definitely not tame.

He was living in their garage and swimming in their bathtub once a day. But I decided it was getting too hot to stay in our garage and the kiddy pool would be a much more sanitary place to swim. Unfortunately, with two big dogs in the backyard, we've had to finagle (is that a real word) a little place for him to hang out. While building said structure we had a little mishap with the dogs and the duck. I came around the corner of the garage to the sound of two little girls wailing and Lisa yelling, "Bella, no! Buddy, no!" Fortunately, Daffy seems no worse for the mouthing/chasing and is happily paddling around the pool. We're at 36 hours and counting, so hopefully he'll make it until next Monday!

My bottom is getting so big!

No, not mine! :)

This was Hannah's excuse for wanting to wear her new underwear! :)

"But Mommy, my bottom is getting so big! It's getting bigger and bigger and bigger!"

Hannah, I think your regular panties will be fine for now.

"But my bottom is too big for them, I need to wear my new panties!"

I told Chris I think she's the only female to ever be excited about a big bottom!

I'm on my third shirt....

Well, I'm wearing my third shirt of the day, well, fourth if you count the t-shirt I slept in. That should tell you what kind of day I'm having.

Isaac has had diarrhea now for 5 days. It started on Saturday when his daddy gave him a whole bag of grapes and just let him munch on them all morning long! Little kid just loves his grapes! :)

But unfortunately, they don't go through him so well.

So anyhow, back to today and day 5. His first diaper was really nasty. One of those where you open the bedroom door and are about bowled over! As I'm folding it up, a huge plop squirts out (TMI, I know). I jump back and think, "Phew! Missed that one!" Clean up the changing table and as I'm washing my hands see that no, my cat-like reflexes weren't fast enough this time.

Shirt number one goes in the laundry.

Shirt number two joins the other as we're walking out the door for preschool and I get a big ol' booger smeared from one shoulder to the other....now, a little snot is pretty average for my shirts but all the way across on a navy shirt when I'm going for groceries after drop off?

The current shirt has been on for almost 6 hours now so we'll see if it lasts! :)

Owie

I'm standing at the counter getting sandwiches ready for lunch when I hear from the tablet behind me, "Owie!"

I turn around and say, "Oh, did you bite your tongue? Just take a little drink, Peanut."

"I didn't say 'owie,' Mommy. The strawberry did when I bit him!" :)

"Oh....well, then just tell him that his family is already in your tummy so he should hurry up and let you eat him!"

Don't they just come up with the craziest things! :)