What to do when your kid has...

....hand foot mouth disease.... again! Bah! Robby had this last summer and it was awful and the doctor told me, "well, it's good now he won't get it again!" Kind of like the chichen pox. An awful virus but once you have it you are done. WRONG. There are actually 4 different types of viruses that cause HFM disease and now he'll be immune to 2 out of the 4.... grr.... It started with a diaper rash, then red dots/bumps on his legs & arms, then little blisters on his hands & feet and big canker sores/ulcers on his tongue and mouth. And there's nothing to treat it - you can just treat the symptoms. So it's pretty painful and causes cranky children!

Since it's contagious (direct contact and mostly among children but adults could get it) that has meant no gym or pool ALL WEEK LONG. I'm writing this now while he's napping because I took him home after sacrament meeting today since I couldn't bring him to nursery. So we've tried to get outside some and I've tried to do some more fun things at home but it's been hard not doing our usual fun stuff.

Robby did have a blast playing with stamps! He decided he'd give himself some stamps all over his arms! Luckily it's washable ink and came right off in the tub!

And what else to do when you have HFM but play with other children who have HFM! These kids are always together so they either got it from the same place or Robby gave it to Syd - Rob for some reason has been holding out and hasn't gotten it yet. I just hope he doesn't get it next week on the tail end of Robby & Sydney's cause that's another week of quarantine! Yikes!

We did get out Tuesday night for Malea's bowling birthday party! Happy Birthday Malea!!!

The HFM started Monday/Tuesday and he is feeling much better and almost all his little blisters are gone so hopefully we can get back to our regular activities this week! We did have a really fun weekend I need to blog about now...