Manic Mondays: Where've We Been?

It's interesting...
I haven't been posting any Manic Monday posts because we have yet to be really "cooped up" this winter.
It doesn't even seem like winter has started. We haven't had any snow yet and right now it's a sunny 54 degrees!

However, we HAVE been a little cooped up for other reasons...

CHICKEN POX!

Day one. We were running a few errands and when I took him out of the car to run into the bank, I noticed he was really hot and super snuggly. When we got home, we took his temp and it was 101.7. I could tell he wasn't feeling well, so we made a "bed" on the couch with some blankets, pillows, stuffed animals, and books.

Later that night, his temp rose up to 103.6, I put on Beauty and the Beast and Burkley laid there watching his first movie. He's never actually sat and watched a TV show or a movie (other than a few minutes of his favorite, Wheel of Fortune- the clapping hooks him every time) so we couldn't believe he sat there the whole time. I left after about 20 minutes to go somewhere and my husband took over. He said Burkley fell asleep right at the end of the movie.

Later that night, I came home to find my little booger really doing horribly. We changed to jammies, but unzipped them seeing as how he was super hot.

He pretty much lived on this couch/bed for three days straight. His fever hovered around 100 for those three days.

Then came the bumps! At first, I assumed it was a rash from the medicine we were giving him for the fever. I had forgotten that he's sensitive to red and blue dye and the cherry-flavored medicine we had given him to bring down the fever was red.

Then I noticed the "rash" spreading rather than going away.

This is when we decided to call take him to the Express Care doctor's office since our doctor had no appointments available for another few days.

The doctor took one look at him and diagnosed him with a chuckle, "Yep, that's chicken pox!"

We were told we were going to have to stay inside for 10-12 days, or until the spots all turned to scabs. We were going nuts with boredom. Well, I was. (Note the iPod: Parents of toddlers- there's this App called SoundTouch that is really fun for little ones- just get the trial version, no sense in paying for the full version. Burkley likes to play with it on Daddy's iPod or Poppy's iPad.)

However, the scabs started to form rather quickly! About two days after the doctor's visit, he was already mostly scabbed.

We kept him in for one more to be certain and now, a week after the whole thing started, he's totally better. His appetite is back, no fevers, no lethargy or crankiness, just a regular toddler back in action. :)

All in all, it was a pretty mild case, but I'm really glad he got them so young. He was young enough, and the case was mild enough, that he really never itched them. I'm also glad to never have to be wondering or worrying about when he's going to catch them as he grows. I do wonder, however, if he will ever get them again since his case was somewhat mild. I hope they were just bad enough that he is now immune.

And to answer the million-dollar question that everyone's been asking us...no, he was not vaccinated. :)