Quarantined

The health issues of the Z-family continues.  At this point we've moved past the despair of the situation to just laughing about it - what else can you do?  We could tout all of the things that we do to keep our kids healthy, but those things don't really matter when the family is sick!  We're now entering into our second weekend of being quarantined.  Last Sabbath, Kaleb woke up with pink-eye.  This is the first experience where any of us have actually had pink-eye, so we'll count our blessings for that.

The same day, Amy came down with "something" again - twice in one month.  Sore throat, 102 fever, sneezing and coughing.  Later that day, Zachary came down with pink-eye...great, more good news! :)  We thought that surely we'd be in the clear when Kaleb decided to put the icing on the cake Sunday night by hurling everywhere.  At least he gave a warning by making the puking sound several times with nothing yet coming out, so we were able to get him over the toilet - he looked like a little adult with his head hanging into the toilet puking!  The boys managed to recover from the pink-eye and there seems to be no lasting effects of the puke thankfully.

Eating supper outside on the deck last weekend with Grandma during our quarantine phase (Grandma's don't care about us being sick! :))

Amy made it through the week (just barely on some days) but it appears that this may be turning into a bit of bronchitis.  Karis then began to get sick on Thursday, and we capped off our string of bad health by having both of the adult Z family members getting PINKEYE!  Just great.  So, this will be our second weekend of staying at home trying not to spread our germs.  Thankfully pinkeye is non-contagious after 24 hours of eye drops, so we'll be thankful for that!  Kaleb again decided to add the final touch to the weekend by developing an allergy to who knows what and getting hives all over his chest!  They're coming and going, so they don't seem all that serious but we haven't been able to figure out what is causing it quite yet.

The red patches on his chest are the hives - the dark green lumps on his legs are the "Juice Plus gummies" that are a bit sticky, and he's discovered that he can make them stick to his skin (even his cheek!)

On non-health related news, the boys started swimming lessons here at the house this week with Miss Amanda - a high school senior who was teaching our friends' kids how to swim.  Our boys are quite comfortable in the water, but we're hoping that they'll start to learn the actual strokes etc.  She's been teaching Zachary how to do the front crawl and the back crawl.

Zachary also started a gymnastics class last week that we forgot to mention.  It is a small, all boys class at a local recreation center called "Junglenastics."  The first day ended up being a private gymnastics lesson as the other boys who had signed up didn't attend, so Zachary had a FABULOUS time!

Phrase of the week:  Zachary's funny phrase this week happened this week after Amy told  Kaleb to inform her if his stomach was hurting again (this was the day after the throwing up incident).  Zachary looked at her and said "But Mommy, he doesn't have words!!?"  He was very concerned that Kaleb wouldn't know the right words to tell her that his stomach hurt!  Kaleb's word is "Jamas" which is the word that he's chosen for Miss Jennifer.  Zachary always called her "Je-fer" which was easier to identify that's who he meant.  Kaleb is QUITE adamant though that Jamas means Miss Jennifer! :)