Strep Throat!

As I had mentioned earlier this week. Luca had a fever on Monday and Tuesday, then he was fever free Wednesday and Thursday. We noticed Luca had 2 pimples on his chin and didn't think anything of it but he kept picking at it. Thursday it seemed to spread and when he woke up on Friday he had about 12 pimples on his face. I called the doctors office, thinking it was chicken pox except it was only on his face and no where else. Thankfully, they were able to squeeze Luca in for an appointment. Corey was feeling sick on Wednesday with a sore throat and I was hit by it on Thursday night.

Luca was so good at the doctors office.  His doctor, Dr. Rob, always shakes my hand when he comes into the room and Luca stuck his hand out like he wanted to shake his hand, too.  So of course, Dr. Rob shook his hand.  Dr. Rob told Luca that he noticed he's got a Birthday coming up, and Luca said "Yep, March."  Then Dr. Rob asked him "How old are you going to be?"  Luca held up three fingers and said "Three!"  When they had to do a swab of Luca's throat, Dr. Rob told me that the kids typically don't like this but we have to do it to see if he had strep.  Luca opened his mouth and said Ahh and let him swab his throat.  I was so proud and Dr. Rob was pretty impressed! 

Luca was diagnosed with Impetigo which is a bacterial infection on the face caused by Strep throat. If you notice it's around his chin and nose, so when he licks his lips and rubs his nose the bacteria gets on his face which causes Impetigo. The doc told me to bring Olivia in, too, because strep is so contagious that she probably had it,  which she did. Corey and I also got checked at the Minute Clinic and we were tested positive for Strep throat. So we are all sick but at least we are all prescribed antibiotics and should be on the mend soon!



Since I like this blog to be positive, I will post some fun pictures that Luca took. He LOVES to take pictures and he's getting better at it, too! So these are silly photos of us that he took earlier in the week. Hopefully by the end of this blog it will make you smile even though I know all of you are feeling really bad for us!

I love that he took a picture of his feet.  It's so fun to see what pictures he took when I get the camera. 

Now this was taken today. For a 19 month old with Strep Throat she sure has a lot of energy!

The Secret

Some of you know that Corey and I are huge believers of The Secret.  We learned about it several years ago after watching Oprah and borrowed the DVD from a friend.  After watching it, it definitely changed our lives.  I always looked at the glass half empty but now I can always make a positive out of something negative.  Whenever I'm feeling down I just have to think of all the things I am grateful for and there are a lot of things.  Anyway...I am a fan of The Secret on Facebook and this was on their status today and I thought I'd share it with all of you...

"If you make time to list all the things you are grateful for, and you feel the feelings of gratitude, you will feel amazing every day. Your frequency will be high and you will move through your days in love with being alive, bringing joy wherever you go, positively affecting one person after another.

When you live a life like this, everything you want will come before you even ask. (The Secret Daily Teachings)"

 If you haven't seen the DVD or have read the book I highly recommend it!  Since living The Secret...things just seemed to fall into place and worked out the way we envisioned it.  We have two healthy, beautiful children, a warm home to live in and great people surrounding us.  I am so grateful!  

Sick Day

Luca woke up with a fever today so we've been home in a our pj's all day and I didn't take Luca to his dance class. I never leave them in their pj's all day because I feel like I'm not being productive, weird, I know, but Luca went down for his nap and asked me to change his clothes. I told him since he's sick he can wear his pj's all day but he wasn't happy about it. I think he's used to his routine of changing out of his pj's every morning.   Once we gave him Tylenol his fever went away and I'm amazed at how much energy he still has.  The kids asked me if they could color so I let them color and ran upstairs real quick to put the laundry in the dryer and start a new load to wash.

I have to say that I noticed how remarkably quiet they were.  I should have figured they were up to no good!  You can't really see this but they drew all over the sliding glass door.

Mr. Clean Magic Eraser saved the day!  I made the kids clean it and it came off!

Olivia learned what a square and triangle looks like and knows the difference.

I asked her to show me the square...here it is!!  Smart girl!

Cosi Again!

I took the kids to Cosi again but today it was PACKED compared to when I took them Friday.  There were a lot of kids from Elementary which was probably why it was so hectic in there today.  The kids still had fun especially because all of their friends were there!


I love this picture of Olivia and Sophia! Sophia asked me if I would just take a picture of her and Olivia! How adorable.

This is the helicopter that Luca just loves!  When I told him we were going to Cosi he asked me if we could play on the helicopter first. He's the pilot and Sophia is the passenger.

Olivia remembered the slides and that was the first thing she wanted to do.

Half car, half human.

Luca's new friend, Gia.  I recently joined another playgroup that only meets once a month that I love and everyone lives very close to us - Arligton, Hilliard and Dublin.  I love it and the kids are all very close in age.

Luca figured out how to turn the water on to make it shower!

Olivia was all about this rubber duckie.

The water area is definitely one of the kids favorite things.

Luca and Ethan playing together on the sound machine.

Whenever Luca would talk into this microphone it would light up on the inside. 

My Montage 1/17/11 at OneTrueMedia.com

This is a typical day of the kids playing. I love this video because it makes me smile. I'm so glad they are so close and have so much fun together. It looks like they are trying to be couple figure skaters! You have to watch the very end of the video, it's my favorite part! :)

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STRIKE!

We took the kids bowling for the 1st time!

Corey had the day off today for Martin Luther King Day. We normally have playgroup on Mondays and a lot of the moms husbands had the day off, too so we decided to all go bowling!

I'm very glad Corey had the day off because it would've been impossible for me to be there by myself with both kids. Luca ended up running down the lane and Corey had to get him. I think he wanted to knock down the pins himself without a ball!

Luca scored a 60. Not to bad for a 2 year old.

This bowling alley offers free bowling for toddlers on weekdays from 10-12 we just have to pay for shoe rental!

Cosi!

Aunt JuJu, Uncle Kevin, Evie & Elle bought the family a Cosi pass for the year for Chistmas. I've always wanted to take the kids there and now I can take them anytime I want all year! They loved it and here's pictures to prove it!

For those of you who don't know what Cosi is, it's a science museum. This area was called the Kids zone but it's a pretty huge museum so I'm looking forward to seeing all the other different areas.

This water area was great ~ both kids didn't want to leave they were having so much fun.  They even provide little rain coats because they can get so wet.

This was a perfect place to go on this cold wintery day today!

I also bought a guest pass so if anyone would like to join us feel free!  It admits one guest and any children under the age of 2.

This was the power plant area.  Everytime Luca would put his hands on this it would make music, he loved it!

He's so handsome!

This was a little framed house with a sink in it that Olivia loved.

They especially enjoyed the doorbell button.

Olivia's checking it out.

Does that lady in the background seem annoyed?  My kids wouldn't stop pressing the button! 

Looks like I've got a future dishwasher! Yay!

Hanging around.

Olivia was intrigued by this.

Poor girl was having so much fun she didn't want to leave. 

There was another section that I didn't have my camera with me but Luca enjoyed it because there was an ambulance and a hospital area where he could wear a jacket, stethoscope, rubber gloves and they had x-rays, and all sorts of things you'd see in a real hospital!  They also had a helicopter and kitchen area that they both loved.  What a fun time.  Looking forward to taking them more often!

Ouch!

Luca had his first, actually, his 2nd incident with the bouncy house. Since the bouncy house moves when they jump in it, it got closer and closer to the wall and he jumped right into the wall banging his knee and face and that's how he got these scabs on his beautiful face.

His 1st incident was that his fingernail got caught in the netting of the bouncy house and he tore off half of his middle finger nail.

But as you can see, he's still happy as can be!  I have to say that I get looked at up and down by people and I just want to say "No, I don't beat my kid!" because that's what I feel like they are thinking.

This is what Olivia thinks....

This is the face she gives us when she's being silly.

Here's my little fashionista posing in her new faux uggs.  I wish I could borrow her clothes. I want some Uggs!

Lately, Luca likes to blame things on his monkey.  I caught him in action turning off the lights. Can you see his monkey is doing it?  We had to put George in time-out.