As a parent, you're always taking pictures of your children. And occasionally, you capture some that will be embarrassing to your children when they turn 16. Those are often my favorite kinds of pictures. The ones that, usually, bring giggles up whenever you see them.
This first set of pictures aren't funny, but blackmail worthy enough in their own way. Alexis had developed an ear infection from a cold. This would be her first ear infection ever. Which, to us, was a miracle because Natalie had them all the time when she was a baby. So the Dr. prescribed Amoxicillin to fight it.
Well, a week later this rash shows up. And I'm not exagerating when I say that the rash covers her from head to toe without an inch uncovered. I was freaking. Of course it happens to be a Saturday, but luckily her Dr. office is open on Saturdays, but we won't be able to see her Dr.... which I didn't care at all. Of course the only opening they had was at 2:30 so I have to worry until then. Peter's parents of course aren't helping my worries either, saying that according to the pictures in their medical book, that the rash looks like the measles. Of course gets me worried even more, thinking if that's what it is, how many other kids have I exposed from my subbing, and I couldn't help but think that I just got over a shift of washing and folding towels at the health club that people are wiping on their faces and such. Sigh. Luckily, they had another Dr. come in and they called us first and set up an appointment. That dr. came in and immediately said "That's an amoxicillin rash if I've ever seen one!" Whew!!! So, it turns out, Alexis is allergic to amoxicillin.
EDIT: I realized after writing the blog that it would be weird for me to worry about spreading measles to other people, especially adults, obviously because of the MMR. But there has been a break out of measles around here, even among adults. And me not being a Dr. I didn't know if this was because there is a new strain that the MMR doesn't protect against or not. Alexis has had her first MMR shot so it shouldn't have been too much of a worry, but still....
Natalie is growing like a weed. Just the other day, she says that she needs new shoes, so we check and sure enough her shoes are feeling a bit tight on her feet. She's got fat feet so she often out grows them widely before she out grows them lengthly. So to the shoe store we go and find her some new shoes. She's been working on tying so she gets some tie shoes, and wide ones at that so hopefully she'll be able to wear them for a good long time! She absolutely loves them and insists on wearing them around the house. So that first night, when she was sent up to get on her pajamas, this is what she comes down in. She couldn't find the top to the one set of PJs and couldn't find the bottom to the other set, so she combined them. And then put on her brown shoes with the pink hearts to finish the ensamble. We all just broke out laughing!
And finally, we got Alexis a new box of diapers, which have Minnie and Micky Mouse on them. She absolutely loves them! Here she is "kissing" them. Too funny!
On Saturday, we left Eli with the boys while we had just a girls day off! We first went to lunch and can I say, I am in love with Thai food! YUMMY YUM YUM YUM!!!!!! Then we went and got pedicures and manicures! Oh my gosh! I've never had a pedicure before and I was a little nervous about getting one because 1. I hate feet so I don't upkeep mine very well and I knew they were gross and 2. I'm SUPER ticklish on my feet. But let me tell you, it was HEAVEN!!! I could do with a pedicure once a week. Too bad finances wouldn't allow that :). And I think I'm addicted to having my toes painted! I've been running around sockless just so I can keep looking at my pretty toes! After the pedicures and manicures, we went to the dollar store and got some fun things for the Easter Bunny to bring. Then we had to get home so that the boys could leave for their game. We had dinner and after Eli went to bed, we had movie night. We watched Twilight, which, by the way, isn't half as good as the book. And then we played a little Guitar Hero before the boys got home.
Sunday, we continued our girls weekend by doing makeovers. I have recently got my hair cut, and I hated it. I've been trying to grow it out and it's in that awkward stage, but the lady that cut my hair did a horrible job and just made it worse than it was and couldn't (wouldn't) fix it without charging me for another hair cut because "I have so much hair" it would be like doing another cut altogether.... whatever. So I've been unhappy with it ever since and have been contemplating just cutting it all off back to short. But I thought I'd try dying it to see if maybe that will help. So I went darker, which again scared me because I've never tried going darker before. So we dyed it dark and then put in highlights, and I LOVE IT!!! It's more dramatic than anything I've tried before, but I absolutely love it. Christel also used her straightener on my hair and it made it not look so awkward! So I'm totally going to have to go out and get a hair straightener.
Of course, we couldn't not do anything with Christel's hair so she got her hair highlighted too! Aren't we a bunch of beautiful women???
After that, we all just hung out and had fun! Should I be jealous that there's another beautiful woman sitting on my husband's lap? If it were anyone other than Christel, I probably would be. That sounds bad, but its just that I 100% trust those two and I know there's nothing that I ever have to worry about. And besides, she sits on her own hubby's lap too!
So thank you, Jess and Christel! We both had an awesome, relaxing weekend! We can't wait to do it again!
