Rough week

Addie's sick. But she isn't sick. She came down with a rash on Monday, but I didn't think much about it. I just thought her shirt was irritating her, because it was just on her upper body. When she got home from preschool (yes, I sent her with a rash), it had spread across her whole body. The doctor thought it was scarlet fever, but she didn't have strep that usually prefaces the rash (or the fever, for that matter). "Come back if it's still around in two or three days," says the doctor (not my regular ped, but ours was out that day). Doesn't he see me wrestling Max away from all the fun 'toys' that a doctor's office presents to a toddler? Like I want to come back.



That was Tuesday, and she still had the rash on Friday... along with some flushing around her mouth and up her cheeks. Another $30 co-pay later, we see our regular doctor. He's convinced it is scarlet fever, and doesn't understand why she didn't test positive for strep. He brings another doctor in (his dad, actually) and they both agree. Dad says that scarlet fever can sometimes come on after a staph infection, thus the negative strep test. Great! She could've been on meds for 3 days and back in preschool had the first doctor thought of this. Because he didn't, Addie missed 2 days of preschool, playgroup, and her dance class. Ask me how my sanity was this week.



Thankfully, the weekend was awesome! We had record breaking warmth on Saturday (53*) and we were outside most of the day. We went out to breakfast at our favorite local pancake house, then headed to the park. Although we haven't had more than a couple dustings of snow since December, it's been so cold that no snow has melted. That means around 3 feet of snow melting all over the place. Thankfully Corey had the foresight to have me grab their snowpants and boots, because it was wet, wet, wet! We were there about 1 1/2 hours, and the kids were still mad when we said it was time to go home. Max crashed in the car, but Addie spent the next hour or so clearing slush from the driveway and front walk with her dad. We now have beautiful sidewalk-chalk art along our back walk, and muddy grass everywhere.