chicken pox update

owen broke out with the chicken pox yesterday. he still only has a few spots and is not too uncomfortable. although, it's going to be really hard for him to control his hands and not scratch his itchy spots.

leannora is on day 3. day 1 she wasn't too bothered by them. we put coconut oil on her and she was still happy to be the winner. we got a phone call from a little friend named ava. she asked if leannora could come out and play. it was so cute and so hard to tell her mommy that leannora has the chicken pox and couldn't play. so we we're a little disappointed about that, but then grandpa and grandma strub came over for supper. after the children went to bed we played a game of settlers of catan with the fog scenario of the seafarers expansion. we're hooked! grandma won.

day 2 of leannora's chicken pox was not as happy for her. her spots had at least doubled and she was ITCHY. she has been doing an awesome job of not complaining or being too whiney. i'm amazed at her attitude! she enjoyed her bath of oatmeal. but i forgot to let her have raisins in the bathtub. (we eat raisins with our oatmeal for breakfast. she thought it would be pretty funny to eat raisins with her oatmeal bath!) i also forgot to break open the popsicles yesterday. although the children did get to watch a couple of videos before bedtime. oh yeah, we had visitors yesterday. some new friends of ours brought their 4 children over to get exposed. they played for a couple of hours and stayed for lunch. that was fun. it was a great time for the children and helped to keep things happy and adventurous. mark was in milwaukee tuning all day and played a bit of frisbee golf with my dad before heading to band practice in the evening. he missed all of our "fun".

so today is day 3. i think leannora's spots doubled again overnight because she is covered! she wanted to wear a dress today so she could look pretty. we remembered to let her eat raisins while taking her oatmeal bath! we also remembered the fruit popsicles!! she's taking a long nap on the couch just now while the little ones are sleeping upstairs for quiet time. i'll try to put up a not so embarassing picture sometime on a future update.