Oct 14: Silly Boy

This past week has been a rather difficult one for Kent and I in relation to work & scheduling.  I mentioned last week about all the holidays that Erik's daycare observes in the months of September and October.  This past week was the last week of the holidays and our lives should have gone back to normal.  However, Erik got sick and so we had to keep him at home.  Kent and I had to do some fancy  re-arrangement of our work calendars so that one of us could be home with him. Thankfully, our wonderful baby-sitter, Katelyn, was able to help us out a day or two.

Erik had a fever off & on over the last weekend and then on late Sunday afternoon, he started to get a rash on his arms & legs.  At first, I thought it was bug bites after going for a walk through the yard, but the rash got worse on Monday & Tuesday.  It got bad enough that I finally took him to the doctor on Tuesday; they couldn't say for sure what he had but they thought it looked like Hand, Foot & Mouth disease.  He didn't have the trademark sores in his mouth, so they warned me that it could be coming soon.   Apparently, this disease is diagnosed after the fever breaks and the rash appears; the rash also marks when Erik was the least contagious!  Oops - hopefully no one who has interacted with him in the past week will get sick.  We were wonderfully fortunate in that Erik never did get the mouth sores; his rash gradually receded until we deemed that he could go to daycare again on Friday.    Erik has always been a pretty good little patient; he doesn't fuss or cry much and his attitude and behavior stay fairly normal (one reason it is so hard to decide when he might actually be sick!).

Other than being a bit under the weather, Erik has recently begun to exhibit a thoroughly silly nature!  He is so funny and is turning into quite the tease!  He loves to take something that Kent or I have and then taunt us with it!  He will walk away from us and then hold out the item waiting for us to come chase him!  This week, he and Kent had quite the little tug-of-war over Kent's water bottle with Gatorade in it that Kent was drinking after working in the yard.  I've included some pictures below - they may be a bit blurry when viewed full-size, sorry.  Oh, and no worries - the bottle was in the "locked" position, so Erik didn't drink any of the Gatorade!

No, let me have it

I almost have it! (look at his biceps!!)

Look, I licked it - that means it's mine!

Ha, ha, I win!!

Erik also loves to play with our cell-phones; Kent charged one of his old phones this weekend so that Erik would have his very own "working" phone that would have a colorful touch-screen.  He will hold the phone up to his ear and say "O, o"! (which is short for Hello, of course!)

O? O? Who is this?

So happy to have his own phone!

And one more picture of my silly boy(s)!

Silly boys with pizza boxes as chef hats!