Angela here! At last, it is here!! Ohio has warm weather! It snowed two weeks ago, but this weekend will be sunny and 70 degrees. And our crew is ready for some outdoor fun. Hudson starts soccer practice soon and we are getting him pumped and excited to play. He now has his very own ball that he carries all around the house with him. When he eats, the ball has to sit next to his plate of food. As soon as he wakes up, he'll inquire "Where my soccer ball mama?" He also got a helmet and we plan on getting out the bike and scooter soon. He's mildly accident-prone, so I'm hoping those plastic spikes soften his falls.
Hudson had a play date with Miss Stella the other week. These two are soooo cute together, and completely opposite. Stella is sweet, quiet, polite and calm. Hudson is a roaring bulldozer with screaming music in the background. But they surprisingly play well together. After Stella left, Hudson was on repeat for days: "Where Stella go? I looooovee Stella!"
We've also been dealing with rashes, limps, 3 doctor visits and almost 4 days off school between my two children. If you remember in my last post around Easter, Hudson had these funky bumps around his mouth. Well the bumps were also on his knees, arms, butt and legs. He never had a fever or complained, so I diagnosed him with a mild case of hand-foot-mouth disease. After some Tylenol and a couple days, he was good as new. Well, speed forward to this week, he woke up one morning with a limp! He would not bear weight on his right leg. No trauma, no injury, just a painless limp. Total freak-out moment for this mama. All my medical knowledge went out the window and I quickly assumed he had a spinal tumor and would need radiation. Ha! But here a pic from Easter when he first had the bumps on his face...
So we took him to the doctor and he was diagnosed with Transient Synovitis. Apparently this is common in boys; the virus later causes a flare-up in the hip joint that results in a painless limp. After more doses of Tylenol and Ibuprofen and three days later, Hudson is back to normal. But I was so fearful and panicky in the beginning. Here is a video of him limping, it was so sad! My rough and tough boy never complains...
Then came Miss Adley and another bad rash. Now her rash started last week around her face and slowly became more red and irritated. At first we thought it was from her pacifier, but it kept getting more raw and painful. She looked awful and felt miserable. It almost began to look like a chemical burn. And the crazy thing about it, there were FIVE babies in her classroom had the same exact rash! So we took her into the doctor and she was diagnosed with a contact allergic reaction. So we assumed it was something in the daycare cleaning products. BUT, the other babies were all diagnosed with something different...strep, a viral infection, eczema, and one with a combo of impetigo and contact allergic reaction. Another frustrating moment. We took her back to the doctor just to confirm her ailment, and they again said it was some type of allergic reaction to something she's chewing on. So we kept her home for the most of the week and her rash is healing. These are the "good" pictures of her rash mid-week. You'll have to scroll through my phone to see the bad ones...they're TERRIBLE!
After an entire week, my baby girl is on the mend, back to her perky self and ready to be exposed to the public again. Daycare has since changed detergents and is re-sterilizing their cleaning system and dumping the old products. So fingers crossed we will be rash-free next week.
The best pictures yet of my little princess today. Great improvement!
And Adley is finally big enough to take a bath with Hudson, which has made Hudson ever so excited to have more quality time with his little sis. He is such a good big brother. He will show her how to play with toys, help bathe her and pick out clothes and diapers for her.
We're gearing up for Gatlinburg next week for the Boone Family Reunion. Eighteen adults along with eight children under the age of five! We should definitely have some interesting (insert: crazy and chaotic) stories for the next blog post. We've been teaching Hudson all about his extended family. Here's a cute video of him telling us what he's going to do when he sees Aunt Missy and DeeDee...
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
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