Any one else glad that the holiday season is wrapping up?<\/p>\n
When I look back on the last two weeks, the painters going down to the wire but pulling through in the end to get the house wrapped up a few days before Christmas.\u00a0 We decided not to travel to Texas or the farm this year which was a very wise choice.\u00a0 Everyone got sick, and Cole is STILL fighting it.\u00a0 Then there was the weird rash on Blake.\u00a0 It started a few weeks ago when the school sent him home.\u00a0 They wanted me to take him to the doctor but by the time he got home there wasn’t much of a rash, plus I didn’t want to haul him and Cole into the sick side and expose them to who knows what right before Christmas.\u00a0 So I kept him home a day and then sent him back.\u00a0 They called again.\u00a0 I asked if he had a fever or was itching or anything.\u00a0 No, just a mild rash.\u00a0 So he stayed.\u00a0 Rash came and went but was very mild.\u00a0 Then on the 22nd he woke up and it was terrible.\u00a0 We had plans to go to Cincy to see my brother and family and luckily my sister-in-laws brother is a doctor.\u00a0 He said Blake was fine, a virus most likely that was just lingering- popping back up when he got overly hot or cold.\u00a0 Since Blake had played a late night game of flash light tag with neighborhood kids the night before we wrote it off to that.\u00a0 Then he started itching.\u00a0 We had 3 to 4 sleepless nights when the kid couldn’t sleep because he was so itchy.\u00a0 We dosed him up on Benadry and Motrin but it was still bad.\u00a0 Blake is an itchy kid and gets more itchy in the winter so I didn’t think much.\u00a0 A few days ago he had his yearly well check and his dr. said that he had a virus (with a lingering rash) and he has sensitive skin.\u00a0 So with a strong antihistamine he was sent on his way.\u00a0 All in all it was what we thought but exhausting nonetheless.\u00a0 And for Grandad who likes to track the growing progress of each grandkid-\u00a0 he said that Blake is a tall tall kid- off the charts for height and weight and will soon pass up his brother (who is 2 years older and very tall for his age as well) and eventually his 6’1″ dad.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We like to call him our gentle giant \ud83d\ude42 well at least most of the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Any one else glad that the holiday season is wrapping up? When I look back on the last two weeks, the painters going down to the wire but pulling through in the end to get the house wrapped up a few days before Christmas.\u00a0 We decided not to travel to Texas or the farm this year which was a very wise choice.\u00a0 Everyone got sick, and Cole is STILL fighting it.\u00a0 Then there was the weird rash on Blake.\u00a0 It started a few weeks ago when the school sent him home.\u00a0 They wanted me to take him to the doctor but by the time he got home there wasn’t much of a rash, plus I didn’t want to haul him and Cole into the sick side and expose them to who knows what right before Christmas.\u00a0 So I kept him home a day and then sent him back.\u00a0 They called again.\u00a0 I asked if he had a fever or was itching or anything.\u00a0 No, just a mild rash.\u00a0 So he stayed.\u00a0 Rash came and went but was very mild.\u00a0 Then on the 22nd he woke up and it was terrible.\u00a0 We had plans to go to Cincy to see my brother and family and luckily my sister-in-laws brother is a doctor.\u00a0 He said Blake was fine, a virus most likely that was just lingering- popping back up when he got overly hot or cold.\u00a0 Since Blake had played a late night game of flash light tag with neighborhood kids the night before we wrote it off to that.\u00a0 Then he started itching.\u00a0 We had 3 to 4 sleepless nights when the kid couldn’t sleep because he was so itchy.\u00a0 We dosed him up on Benadry and Motrin but it was still bad.\u00a0 Blake is an itchy kid and gets more itchy in the winter so I didn’t think much.\u00a0 A few days ago he had his yearly well check and his dr. said that he had a virus (with a lingering rash) and he has sensitive skin.\u00a0 So with a strong antihistamine he was sent on his way.\u00a0 All in all it was what we thought but exhausting nonetheless.\u00a0 And for Grandad who likes to track the growing progress of each grandkid-\u00a0 he said that Blake is a tall tall kid- off the charts for height and weight and will soon pass up his brother (who is 2 years older and very tall for his age as well) and eventually his 6’1″ dad.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We like to call him our gentle giant \ud83d\ude42 well at least most of the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elisalou"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}