A Pox on Our House

We've finally got our internet hooked up again (those last fews posts were on auto-post). I can't believe it is only been 5 days since I've last "talked" to you all - so much has happened. We moved in, survived our first blizzard in our new home and most excitingly of all - Lucy managed to contract her first major childhood illness. Yep, the little miss has chicken pox!

We weren't planning on having her get the vaccine (it isn't given until 12 months) so it is just as well that she gets them over with. But I have no idea where they came from since as far as I know we haven't been around anyone with them. Perhaps someone we were around at the airport?

Monday night I saw one or two spots I thought they were just a couple of bug bites or heat spots. The next morning there were quite a few more but since she didn't show any other sides, I was delusional and thought "surely, she doesn't have the chicken pox." By Wednesday, there was pretty much no denying it. I tried to take pictures for posterity sake but 1) only her yucky crusted over ones show up

  and 2) 7 months is proving to be a very difficult month to photograph. She moves to much :-) Every time I  turned her around to get a picture of her back, she turned back before I got the camera in place, let alone focused. 

But she's obviously very very uncomfortable, right?

Ha - she doesn't seem to even know she is supposed to be sick. She isn't scratching and doesn't really have a fever. She is a bit more mellow than normal and is taking longer naps but that's about it. I was able to run over to a friends yesterday (sequestering Lucy and I in a room away from her kiddos) to do a little chicken pox research. Apparently, since she is so young and I'm still breastfeeding, the lack of symptoms is not atypical.

Not that it hasn't interfered with our plans any. Today is our 4th anniversary so instead of going to the cute historical little town nearby to look at the tchotchke shops and have dinner like we had thought about, we stayed home and watched what turned out to be a very odd and depressing movie. But there was cheesecake. I have found in life that almost any evening can be redeemed with cheesecake.