About two days after Nana and Papa's arrival, Alex started to run a fever. That evening I noticed a little spot on his lower lip. The next morning I notices a couple more. SO we headed to the doctor, me expecting chicken pox, and we came home with a diagnosis of Hand Foot Mouth Disease. A common, highly contagious early childhood virus that presents with very painful and itchy sores that show up around the mouth (including inside and down the throat) and on the hands and feet. Poor kiddo was in a lot of pain and couldn't eat anything. We went through a lot of tylenol and Ibuprofen that week. Luckily none of the adults got it (usually presents as a cold) and Matthew only had one day of fever with no sores.
Since we couldn't really take Alex anywhere we went to see the Christmas lights at the Bellevue Botanical Garden.
Wall of water and lights
He was a trooper if a little dazed by the pain killers.
They were sitting on a stone toad.
