Monday 18 March 2013

The Pox!

Finally boy no.3 has caught chicken pox. It's taken years of trying and of course it happens exactly when we have outings and parties planned, it's the last week of pre-school before Easter and there is loads of fun stuff to do....and it's 3 days before his little brother's 3rd birthday.

Last night ~ Day 2

I don't really want boy no.4 to have chicken pox on his birthday, but that is kind of outweighed by a desire to get it over and done with......

It would be really handy if they both caught it from the same source and it's only a matter of hours before boy no.4 joins his brother on the sofa not wanting to touch anything. What's more likely however is that he'll continue to be fine and want to play fight four times every fifteen minutes and will spend the next six days leaping on his sore brother and removing the tops from his spots via the power of friction, scraping every available inch of skin as he jumps up and slides down him, grabbing at his arms and anywhere else that is already acutely painful.
He'll want to play and go do loud things, and his ill brother will mainly want to read books and watch movies and we'll have a week of trying to keep 2 little boys busy at both ends of the table.

This morning ~ Day 3
Boy no.3 is being the stroppiest, whiniest, grumpiest and mardiest he's ever been, which is standard for Chicken Pox, and combined with his brother wanting to invent another 15 wrestling moves before lunch isn't going too well, but thankfully he's not really very ill, just a bit hot and tired and feeling very sorry for himself  (Calpol and Piriton are doing a great job).

I've never had to look after a chicken pox child while I have another at home who wants to harass them the entire time. I wouldn't recommend it.

This afternoon ~ Day 3 ~ Lets hope his brother leaves him be for an hour

Obviously in order to draw out the agony to it's fullest extent boy no.3 will just get better and we'll have a couple of days of normality, but not quite enough to get back into the swing of things before boy no.4 develops spots and then I'll have the entire thing in reverse......

12 comments:

  1. Will keep my fingers crossed that Boy no4 gets through his birthday before the pox strike!

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    1. Thank you. We've just arranged to go to Grandma's in Scotland for a few days over Easter, so I'm guessing he'll develop it on the drive up! :D

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  2. Oh no, why do these things always happen at THE most inconvenient times? Hope he doesn't suffer too much :(

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  3. aww bless him, hope he escapes it mildly

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    1. Thank you, he still seems fine so I think he'll be okay - if incredibly cantankerous! ;)

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  4. Oh dear! Does that mean you have to cancel the party? What a shame.

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    1. We've pretty much had to cancel everything unfortunately, which is a shame for both boys. I'm planning a bit of a delayed birthday tea with games on Saturday - fingers crossed boy no.3 is over the worst of it and the birthday boy won't have broken out! :)

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  5. Oh poor boy 3. He looks like he's feeling so sorry for himself. I'm still hoping the cuddles my two had with him last weekend might lead to an outbreak here!

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    1. Hahaha. Best of luck! I do remember now that obviously he sat on the sofa and had a hold of Little Miss for 5 minutes, probably sneezed on her too knowing my lot!

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  6. Bless him! Hope it's been and gone before the celebrations! xx

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    1. Thank you! He's mostly better, (although asleep on a cushion on the floor at the moment!), but we deferred the main celebration until the weekend just to be on the safe side x

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