The Last Few Weeks

Some of you may already be up to date on the last few weeks but those of you who haven't heard, we have had a lot of excitement. It started 2 weeks ago with pink eye. I took both Ethan and Emily to the Dr. and Ethan had pink eye and Emily had pink eye and an ear infection. So we came home with eye drops and medicine for the ear. After about a week of medicine, the pink eye was gone but Emily had come down with a fever. I was slightly worried when Wednesday night it went up to 103 and she was complaining about the other ear hurting. Luckily we had an appointment scheduled the next day. Thursday morning she woke up and I about fell over when I looked at her. This is what we saw:

Spots everywhere. She was covered head to toe in pink spots. We took her in to find out that she was allergic to penicillin and this was the reaction. She also now had an infection in the other ear. The last thing the Dr. said was that it would get worse before it got better. And guess what? It did! This was what she looked like that night and the next morning:

I am glad to report that it is getting better. I feel like we can venture out into public without people thinking she has some terrible disease. Now we just all have runny noses and yucky coughs. One of these days everyone will be healthy enough to resume normal activity. Ethan missed school today and Emily missed the first day of her gymnastics class. I guess we'll start next week with gymnastics and I think Ethan's cough is well enough that he can do school tomorrow. So I think the above stories and pictures explains why I have been slow at posting anything. Hopefully we be up to full speed again soon.