Well, it has finally arrived at the Z household. We were hoping to avoid it, as Karis and Amy never had it as kids, but the likelihood of having a run-in with it with school-age children was pretty high. What is it? LICE! Let the screaming begin now!!!!
After arriving back from Camp Kalaqua (where we shared a brush!!), Amy noticed as she was brushing her hair one morning that there was a small bug in her hair. There had been emails from the school informing us that there was an outbreak of lice, so Amy rushed into the kitchen to discuss with Karis WHAT WAS THAT? Sadly, as we tried to examine the tiny bug - we had the hold Amy's hand very far away from our faces.....then we still couldn't see, so we got the phone to try and magnify it....that didn't work, so then we got the camera....that didn't work either! Two realizations....1) We're old and our eyes no longer focus on tiny objects, and 2) LICE!
Amy determined that the only way she could have gotten it was from sharing a brush with the kids at Camp K, so if she had it, the kids had it. She looked at their hair, and determined that Addi did in fact have bugs, but couldn't see anything in the boys hair. But, again, if one has it, they all have it. After conferring with Jennifer, we determined that in fact all six kids had it between the two families that the treatment began that very day!
We have learned more about lice than we could ever have desired. Please may this never happen to us again! The daily treatment and combing of four heads of hair (with no hair, Karis was blessed to avoid this problem!) takes hours and much frustration. We had friends who said their bout lasted 6 months - we are praying that this isn't our experience. Thankfully Amy has been 'clean' since the first day with no other bugs and no eggs to be found in her hair, but while the bugs are out of the kids hair, we still are combing out the eggs (although now we've had a few 'clean' days with no eggs in their hair either). Karis texted Amy one day after spending hours treating their hair to say "Amy, I've turned into a gorilla, picking bugs out of my children's hair, but I do not get the "joy" of eating them like a gorilla!!" :) Ha ha. Just great.
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| Entertaining themselves while Karis treats their hair (You can see Zachary's short hair now in this picture) |
Zachary's head has been "buzzed" to try and deal with it, as his hair is so incredibly thick that it was impossible to actually treat it properly. Thankfully he looks pretty good with very short hair, and it is cooler now - so maybe we'll keep it short for the summer! Karis is threatening to buzz the other kids hair as well - but Amy has refused to cut Addison's curls off and would like to avoid at all costs cutting Kaleb's hair as well (what is his beautiful highlighted hair comes back just as normal hair!?? :))
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| Jennifer did the first buzz-cut for Zachary, before Karis decided to take it even shorter! |
In other news we had a super fun weekend last weekend when we headed out to the beach with a whole gaggle (what a great old-fashioned word!) of friends. We spent the ENTIRE day there, and it was such nice weather! The kids played in the water, played soccer, played relay races, and dug in the sand to their hearts' content.
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| Several of the ladies, before more of the group arrived |
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| loving the sand! |
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| One friend (nameless!) brought a manual canopy that took a while, and several people, to put up! The pre-assembled ones that you just "walk out" to set up are a little easier and faster! :) |
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| Digging her way to China |
We celebrated Mother's Day by going out to Keke's (becoming a tradition!) with Grandma and Aunt Louise.
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| Reading their tribute to Grandma - so precious! |
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| Love you Mom! |
The kids had to do a diorama for school again - and Zachary chose to do his on the "I Survived the Chicago Fire" and Kaleb did it on "The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash."
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| Notice the hair after Karis got a hold of him - a clean sweep! :) His hair is super soft, and it tis amazing it kind of makes him look older now! |
Phrase of the week: Mom, I've got bugs - they're eating me! Addi is not shy about sharing the fact that she has bugs in her hair.....be quiet child! :) Ha ha ha!
1 comment:
Certainly do hope your battle with those lice is over!! As I mentioned when we were there that Zachary is losing his little boy look, now with his hair buzzed he certainly does look much older!
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