Spring Break 2012

WOW, OH, WOW. We were spoiled rotten with beautiful, sunny, warm (even hot) spring break weather!! I don't remember ever having such amazing weather during spring break. Looking back I'm even more grateful for the amazing weather, because our week didn't go as planned.

Friday the boys and Rebecca planted pumpkin, peas and tomato seeds while Corrine was at science club.

Saturday we wrote up our "to-do" list for the week. It included cleaning bedrooms, reading, Simeon doing his book report, the boys getting hair cuts, Taekwondo and playing.

Monday we stayed home, cranked up the music and cleaned bedrooms. They were sparkling and clean and better organized.

We set the tent up out back for the kids to sleep in. Rebecca thought it was an extension of our house. She brought her dolls and their things out there to play house!

Tuesday we made our lunch and headed out the door to the Niabi Zoo in Coal Valley, IL. It's about an hour southeast of here. Johann wasn't feel great so he stayed home from work.
I decided to get a membership to the zoo for the kids and I, since the kids cost $5 to get in and a membership for them is $5, and comes with 2 guest passes and 2 train tickets.
The zoo was busy. We made the rounds seeing all the animals. The cute baby monkey was everyone's favorite. It was like a little kid with LOTS of extra energy who wanted to jump on all the other monkeys. Some monkey's weren't so fond of it and would be mean to it. The kids would get mad at the mean monkeys.
We had a fun picnic lunch on the wet grass, then headed for the train. About this time Ammon started acting tired and said he was dehydrated and needed to rest. We rode the train and you could see he was tired. It didn't surprise me that he was hot and tired since it was the 1st warm day this spring.



After the zoo we went to Sam's Club in the Quad Cities. Ammon was really dragging and saying he was tired and didn't want to go to Taekwondo that afternoon. He just started last week and loves going.
When we got home Johann felt him and he was super hot. We took his temp and it was 103. He wasn't just saying he was tired, he was sick!!

Weds we stayed home and played. I decluttered and organized and got rid of 6 bags of outgrown clothes and unwanteds. Ammon slept all day or laid in his bed watching movies on the portable dvd player.

Thursday we had more staying home. I ran Ammon to the doctor because his throat was all white and his temp was still 103. The culture came back negative. Darn!

Thursday night Ammon still had a temp of 102, so our trip to the waterpark the next day was no longer happening. I founds friends for the Simeon and Corrine to play with the next day.

Friday Simeon went with Nick ice skating, had lunch and a movie. Corrine went with Lauryn to the library, Buffalo Wild Wings and Build A Bear. Ammon, Rebecca and I had a backyard picnic.


Saturday was much the same. Rest for Ammon, playtime at home for the others. He ran a temp of 102 before bedtime.

We spent alot of time watching these seeds sprout and grow this week. It's been an amazing week to watch these little seeds go from something dry and asleep to something growing and thriving.

Sunday-Ammon's temp was normal all day, and he seemed to be feeling stronger.


Back to school on Monday and I didn't even think to send Ammon only half day. He came home and you could see it in the way he was walking, he was exhausted! He went right to his bed. He rested, then fell asleep a little after 5:15. Poor guy.

(It took him another 5 days before he was back to his normal energetic self.)

Even though our week wasn't full of activites outside of the house and Ammon was sick, we were able to find fun things to do at home. The beautiful weather and being able to get outside ready helped make the week a better one.

Sickness

Rebecca woke up Monday morning acting a little off. She was grumpy and seemed tired, but nothing else. We thought it might have been from being out of town last week for Thanksgiving.
Tuesday she woke up and her right eye had junk in it and was red. Tuesday night it went into her left eye.
Wednesday I took her to the doctor for double pink eye. When we were there she had a low grade fever and pink eye for sure. They gave her drops and said if it cleared up quickly then it was bacterial, if it was viral it would go away when it was ready, and the drops wouldn't really help.
Thursday morning Rebecca woke up with a high fever. Ammon also woke up not feeling good. Around lunch time he spiked a high fever.

Thursday afternoon Rebecca started getting little red raised pin sized bumps on her arms, legs, and torso. It was worst in her underwear area, wrist and ankles where clothes were rubbing. Her eyes were clearing up, so she most likely had bacterial pink eye.

Friday morning she woke up with blisters and sore all around her mouth and her red bumps were brighter now. Ammon woke up with the little red pin sized bumps all over his body too. I decided to take Rebecca back to the doctor for her face.
The doctors reaction when he saw her face told me this was something more serious then I had thought it could be. Thankfully we went it. Her throat was really yucky with white patches on it. He tested her for strep throat which came back negative. He was pretty concerned about her face. He said it was an infection bordering on impetigo. He gave her a strong antibiotic ointment for her face and told me to call back if it wasn't getting better or got worse and he'd put her on oral antibiotics also. She had been drooling alot from her sore throat, so some of the bacteria from her throat got into her already dry skin around her mouth and caused an infection.


Saturday the fevers were low, then gone, but they didn't feel very good.
Sunday the redness of the blisters on Rebecca's face started to go away leaving lots of scabs and soreness. Today they both started eating some again.
Monday I called the school to say Ammon wasn't going to be there because of his rash. After talking with the secretary she said he could come if he was feeling good enough. She wanted to see the rash when we got to school so she would know what it looked like in case he came in saying it was getting worse.

Rebecca still seems really tired from being sick. This afternoon she was looking at books on the couch when she got so tired she laid down and feel asleep.
It's going to take a while for the scabs and scars on Rebecca's face to fade away. We're keeping it moistened which seems to be helping.
In the end we weren't ever given a specific diagnoses of what they got, just that it was a virus, but all their symptoms makes me think they had Scarlet fever.