Chicken Pox!

Many days ago I noticed a random spot on Zayden's head.  Assuming it was a bug bite, I never really thought about it.  That evening, after showers, Mike noticed another spot in his underwear area.  Hmmmm.....

Having experienced the chicken pox with 3 other kids (Ameliya + Natalee/Xavier), I knew what I sure thought they looked like, but having no knowledge of exposure or where in the world we would have gotten them I brushed them off.  (The other 3 got them from Mike's shingles - we were expecting them.)  The next morning he had a couple more random spots.  Still baffled, I called our clinic to get the doctor's opinion.  He said the same thing as I did - sure seemed like chicken pox.  Ha.

He'd had no fever, no real symptoms except he did take a really long nap the day I found the first spot.  In fact, on day 1, he was doing this...

We quarantined him at home and home he remained for almost 2 weeks.  Other than a couple of fussy days, he was quite a good patient.  (Sending Gma a spot update.)

He never got "hundreds" of spots, but did get probably 75-100 spots.  I hope it was enough to prevent him from getting them again.  He became a huge fan of the oatmeal bath and loved living in loose cotton PJ pants and t-shirts.

He'll have a couple of scars, because he's 3 - ha - but he did really well overall.  Daddy made him a "pox room" in the office with a smart TV and DVD player and the daybed.

We kept him well hydrated and he got unlimited popsicles and snacks - because there should be some perks to the pox, right?  His favorite thing was coming down after bedtime to say, "I'm hungry."

Big sister picked him out some cool shades at Dreamnight since he missed out.

He's all healed up now, and officially got to go out this weekend.  We're maintaining naps and working on keeping his immune system built up so he's back to tip top shape!

{As a note:  We are not anti-vaccine or non-vaccine.  He had not, however, had the varicella vaccine.  We are fine with him having had the chicken pox because he is a healthily developing child, and we kept him home as soon as we realized to protect those around us.  You do you.  We're working on being "us" over here.)