Heads Up!

This is not a fun blog to have to post. but I wanted to give everyone we hang out with a heads up that I think Seth and Lilah have gotten Hand Foot and Mouth Disease. We noticed on Sunday afternoon that Lilah looked like she was getting a diaper rash. And then Sunday night we noticed after we gave the kids baths that Seth looked like he had a rash too. (Which doesn't make sense because he wears underwear.) Then we saw what looked like little bug bites on the kids' ankles. So, we thought they had gotten into some chiggers at the park this past weekend. However, today I noticed that Seth had these "bug bites" all over his hands and forearms. He also started complaining this afternoon about his mouth hurting. So, I took a couple pictures and sent them to Josh and he says it's HFMD. I don't know where the kids got it. But I wanted to pass the word along because they most likely picked it up someplace we hang out at where our friends may have been too. I also want to apologize to anybody who may have been exposed to our children since this past weekend. I feel terrible that the kids were probably contagious before they ever even showed a symptom. Here's a link to a page on HFMD so you know what to look for, just in case...

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/revb/enterovirus/hfhf.htm

Love vacation week!

So things have been great for us this week. Josh has been on vacation and it's been wonderful. I had forgotten what it's like to have a husband who is rested enough to stay awake with me in the evening and watch a movie or talk or whatever. Josh is usually so exhausted that he gets home from work at 8 or 9pm and is alseep on the couch by 9:30pm at the latest (or studying, which still means I can't talk to him or bug him). He's gotten a couple things done around the house that needed to be done and we've done some fun stuff with the kids. We went to Cosi Science Center on Wednesday and watched a 3D movie called "Fly me to the Moon." It's about 3 little flies who hitch a ride to the moon with Apollo 11. The kids liked it and Lilah sat there the whole time trying to catch the flies or touch the space ship. It was funny. Then we went to the Sesame Street "Learn about the Body" exhibit. It was fun until Seth got attacked be some crazy kid who clawed his face. They kind of got into a traffic jam going into a toy thing and the other boy clawed Seth's face. Seth was bleeding and has some pretty serious scratches on the side of his face and eye lids. It was crazy. We had to take him to the bathroom to disinfect his face since they were pretty deep finger nail scratches. Anyways, it was a fun day other than that. =) Yesterday, we went to the Zoo and it was an absoluetly gorgeous day for the zoo. Josh and I went on a date night last night while his mom babysat. We ate at La Scala (pretty good) and then saw Fireproof at the theater. It was a great storyline and a good movie (highly recommend for all married people or those who are getting married to see it). Although, I can't say it's going to win any academy awards for the acting. Kirk Cameron did a pretty good job, but the supporting cast was pretty weak. Today we went to the harvest festival at homestead park. It was fun, but I was pretty hot. I can't believe it's like 80 degrees in Ohio in October. That's about it for us. It's been a nice week and I'm already dreading next week when Josh has to go back to work. 

Lilah is napping now and Josh and I have found ourselves engaged in a battle of the wills with Seth about using the toilet. He wants his pull-up on so that he can poop in it and we are insisting that he wear his big boy underwear. He has been screaming for the past 2 hours now. We allowed him to be naked if he wanted (because he kept taking off his underwear). But then he peed on the floor right in front of us. So, now we are sticking to the "must wear underwear" rule because it seems to bother him a lot more to pee or poop in his underwear. We are hoping to break his will and force him to simply use the toilet. I never imagined that potty training a boy would be this awful. Oh well, we'll get there. It's not like he's going to graduate high school and still be pooping and peeing in his pants. Thank God Josh is home this week to help me with this.