*A Day in the Life at Our House......3rd edition*: April 2011

Although we've still had a snowfall here and there, at least it melts away pretty quickly!

Everyone has completely healed and is doing well from the chicken pox! We also managed to pass it along to friends of ours who were on the lookout for it as well and their family is all good and well from it too. I am so thankful to have all the children done with that as well as giving mine and Bill's immune system a boost for it as well! My Mom even came and had some snuggle time with the kids to give her immune system a boost as well.

We just finished up with Easter last weekend. That was a lot of fun! (minus my healing from a sinus/chest infection and laryngitis) Let me tell you, mama's should just not be able to lose their voices!! Especially when you have lot's of kiddo's...it's loud on a normal basis around here!!lol I had to do a lot of Charade playing...much to the amusement of the rest of the family.
On the Saturday we met up with Bill's sister and hubby who were in town for the long weekend. It was so awesome to see them since it has been about 6mos! Then they came over for dinner and a visit.
Sunday the kids did an Easter egg hunt and we just hung around the house playing with some of their new Easter treasures. It was very relaxing, the way long weekends should be!

Here are some pics from the weekend:

Alyssa's lunch creation

kids and their Easter crackers and Auntie

Kayla and her egg (no poxies!)

Mariah and her egg (no more poxies either)

Robbie and his egg

Alyssa and her
egg

Well, I've dusted the cobwebs and swept out the dustbunnies around here!!
I cannot believe it's been 5 months since my last update! FIVE months!! Gah!

There is no way to really catch up that much time on here, so I will just start from the last month.

MARCH

Near the end of February, I exposed Matthew, Mariah and Kayla to the Chicken Pox. I had actually exposed Breanna as well, but it didn't take. So, on March 12th it all began. Matthew was first with spots and then the next day it was Mariah. On the Wednesday Kayla sprouted them, but nothing on Breanna!
Of course, hanging around with three poxied kids did the trick! Breanna sprouted hers on the 25th.
Everyone is healing up nicely, with various little scabs here and there. Breanna has thr freshest batch of scabs.
They all did really well, and I am so glad to get that over and done with for them. Matthew had the mildest case of them all, with only about 500 or so spots. The girls each had at least 1000 and had them everywhere. Mouths, eyelids, ears, noses, private parts, in between the fingers and toes and on the palms of thier hands. OUCH! Amazingly, not one of them had a fever! They each had a rough day in between the 48-72 hour period when all the blisters are popping and the blisters are very itchy, but other than that, it went really smoothly.
Alex, Alyssa, and Robbie all had it exactly 10 years ago. So now everyone has received a good 'booster' until hopefully somewhere down the road we can be exposed again and refresh our immune systems.
Here's some pics from the adventure: