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Connect the Dots

Noemie finally came down with the chicken pox though the timing was not great. My parents had already arrived so we could all go out for Father's Day lunch. Kirk had gone upstairs with N to get her dressed and she was wearing a little princess dress and I saw a spot on her neck. Then a few more... so we stayed in for lunch. Noemie had far more spots than Charlie did and hers were massive. But she's healing much faster than he has with many of her spots nearly gone. He's still quite scabby considering the 2 week lead he had on her. Noemie did okay. The first night she was pretty miserable and very very itchy so it was a long night. She was fine after that though with plenty of anti histamines and calamine cream. Oh, and oatmeal baths. 

I had told Noemie she could do connect the dots with her chicken pox spots (this was before she even had them, I was trying to make it sound all exciting as she was upset at the thought of catching it from Charlie). So her and Kirk did it and then Charlie saw it and had to do it and then of course I had to take a photo. 

Both kids will be back at nursery this week. Yay! While I had fun with both of them during their respective week off from school I am looking forward to having them both at school again. It's the school play next weekend and Noemie has missed a whole week of practice time so she has to catch up this week. Glad they both got the pox out of the way before starting big school though! 

Big Girl School

On Tuesday morning, Noemie had her 2 hour "get to know you" session at her prep school where she'll start in September. The night before there was great excitement of course with lots of questions. We went in, she went off to do her own thing so I left with the promise to return to pick her up 2 hours later. I went to a local coffee shop and waited. 

The teachers said everyone got along, no one ended up in tears and everyone seemed to have a good time. Noemie did a painting, said the toys were good and that the teachers were nice. She was impressed by the cookie snack they were given as well. She spent the rest of the day chattering about how she loved her new school and couldn't wait to start. Let's hope she feels this way come September when she has to wake up early each morning and spend 6 hours a day there doing more than eating biscuits and playing with her classmates!

"I have chicken"

Poor little Charlie came down with the chicken pox (or, I have chicken, as he calls it) on Saturday.  Just a few spots which of course multiplied through the day and more on Sunday. It didn't seem too bad but yesterday he had loads more and spiked a bit of a fever but medicine took care of it. I took this photo yesterday morning but he has at least double the spots now already and they have spread to his legs and this morning, his arms. I've already been in his room once at 6:30 this morning for some medicine as he was burning up and his face looks really bad. Poor guy is not tough to begin with so he's spent hours laying on me and whimpering. 

I'm hoping Noemie catches it next so we can be all done with it. I know people can get it more than once but I'm hoping we're not one of the minority in this instance. So far N is showing no signs at all but she has another week to two weeks before she's in the clear. Considering they bathe together and are constantly together, I'm hopeful. Other kids at school have apparently been going down with it as well so it seems like it's just one of the things making the rounds. Better now than when they are older so I'm glad. They don't immunize against CP in the UK as they do in the US which is not a bad thing. The little bodies get so many shots and CP isn't bad in a normal healthy kid (though Charlie might not agree at this moment in time).

Kitchen is done and now just the painter finishing bits off. New furniture arriving tomorrow so I can hopefully get organized very soon. Will depend on how clingy Charlie is I suppose. Tree cutters on Thursday and then I think we have a break from it all for a while. I'm ready to have our house back to just ourselves.