Just Another HFM Day…

What do you do when you've been held captive indoors thanks to HFM for so many days in a row?

You break out the really large things that you usually only play with when there's 20 inches of snow outside.

 

Tent fever is better than cabin fever, though. Even if I was tripping over it all day.

I got caught up on laundry.  For the first time in months.  So I guess that's a positive. All 3 of us also vacuumed the house. And when I say all 3, I literally mean all 3 of us were holding on to the vacuum and pushing it around. I can't say that it's efficient, but if going over the same spot 20 times means you get all of it sucked up then I'm pretty sure we're good.

Oh, and maybe you squeeze in a haircut.

 

She's pretty excited about it.

Guess who else is excited about it?

 

Or excited about something else? Who knows...

This is just to prove to you that I'm not making all this up.  While Mia has maybe four spots around her mouth (and if I really look maybe 1 or 2 on her hands and arms), her brother has more than I want to count.

If I squint my eyes and see the glass half-full, I see that they're getting better. They are getting a little better, just not going away, which is really what I want them to do.  Some of them are so dark on his skin (doesn't help that he's so fair) that I'm wondering how long it will be for them to fade away (and really, really hope they do completely and don't leave spots or scars... I know that's superficial and I know that this is a minor illness but this is the longest we've been home "sick" and when you see all of that all over your baby's skin it's hard not to be a little bent out of shape.  It's just hard. Ok, done.) To top it all off, we've entered the gross stage...he's now peeling from all these blisters.  Doesn't seem to hurt him but I have to make sure he has socks on because he'll sit there and pick at his feet (where the peeling is the worst) - and you can't tell me that wouldn't hurt...

But, even though it's frustrating to wake up and still see red all over his body, I'm thankful that as I watch him, it's clear to me that he thinks this whole HFM thing is just a big fuss and why can't we go play outside already?