This morning I decided to clean the car at the Brown Bear with the boys. It was so messy I couldn’t take anymore. In the back seat there were toys, clothes, CDs, stale goldfish crackers, oat squares and shredded wheat, a tennis racket, a baseball bat, books – you get the picture.
I don’t know why I decided to do it with both boys. I let them out of their seats and they immediately crawled in front while I was trying to clean (and drink the coffee I had just bought.) I managed to get the front clean and then had to crawl over them into the back. Finally I corralled them into the way back and got the whole thing vacuumed out.
When I got back into the drivers seat and turned the car the windshield wipers were on, the hazards were on, the turn signal was on, the radio was blasting static and all the stations had been erased, both mirrors were messed up, all the interior lights were on and review mirror was pointed at the ceiling. Nice work boys 
Tuesday morning Holden woke up with a fever. He played and was happy all morning. I gave him Motrin about 11:30 and then that afternoon his fever just sky rocketed, to 104 under his arm, which probably means it was really around 105. He was shaking so badly with the chills and I was freaking out that he was going to have another seizure. Finally around 3:30 I gave him Tylenol and by 5 PM he was running around the living room. That was about as far as it got, although he did have that little petechiae rash on his foot.
His fever was gone yesterday then this morning I noticed he had a rash on his foot. I thought the rash was just his eczema flaring up, but I called the doctor and they said I should bring him in and it turns out he has hand foot mouth disease. He has a rash on both feet and in his mouth. It sounds much worse than it is. Apparently it is very common in preschoolers – who knew. At least I know what caused the fever.
Holden seems fine. He is eating and playing and everything. Colin has not caught it, but that is just par for the course. Holden catches everything out there and Colin doesn’t. Colin must just bring it home and pass it on to Holden.
Not such a great start to the winter – let’s just hope that Holden is building up all his immunity now!
The boys had a great time on Halloween and were in serious candy over load. Colin was dressed up as Spiderman (thank you AZ Fullers for that Christmas present ) and Holden was a duck. I didn’t know if Holden would wear the costume or not but once he saw Colin dressed up he wanted to be in the Duck costume all day.
Colin went trick or treating to the commercial area by our house with his preschool during the day. Then at night we went around our block. Colin was excited from the get go and Holden started really getting into it by about the 3rd house. It would go something like this:
Holden struggles up 15 wet steps in his little costume.
Holden knocks on the door (barely audible by the people inside – not to worry because Colin talks so loud they could hear us)
Colin would yell trick or treat
The people inside would remark on what a cute little girl Holden was (long eyelashes and a fuzzy duck costume…what can I say)
I would correct people and tell them Holden was a boy.
Meanwhile Holden would grab a piece of candy and Colin would slyly stuff his 4th and 5th piece in his bucket.
Repeat.
Then we came home and told them they could each pick one thing to eat. The both chose the full size Snickers bar. We had to stop Holden from eating it all – he definitely would have. Colin spent most of the next day dumping, counting, browsing and reorganizing his candy. Thankfully most of it is gone now.
(I meant to post this on Wed but time slipped away from me and I didn’t get around to it…getting the pictures up is always the problem)
We were all very excited about the election on Tuesday. Chuck voted absentee but I took both Colin and Holden to vote with me. A risky move but they were little angels. I got my ballot, went over to the booth and both of them sat under the booth in their matching blue coats eating fruit leathers while I voted. They sat quietly for the whole 10 minutes it took me to vote (so many props and charter amendments, etc). They had found my extra Obama stickers so the both had them all over them. I didn’t get a picture of them sitting under there which I really regret now.
We had had a little election night party with the Dotens which was fun, albeit a little hard to hear the TV with all the boys running around. The boys stayed up until 8 when they announced Obama would be our new president. I am sure all of you who are Obama supporters felt the same way we did, elated, proud, excited, relieved. I am sure I will probably get made fun of for saying this but I even cried a bit. For the first time in a long time I feel very proud of the United States and even though things aren’t so great I am much more optimistic about the future.
The next day every one at Colin’s school was in such a good mood. As you can imagine most people at his school and around Seattle in general are Democrats. I think literally only saw 1 or 2 McCain signs during the entire campagin.
Alright, enough of my political talk…I have to run to the dentist. I have a Halloween post almost done, so I will put that up tomorrow complete with pictures.