We went to the dr.

Well I got Cayden into the dr today, after waiting in the waiting room for 45 minutes they took us back. He now weighs 41 lbs. His temp was normal etc.

The dr came in & looked him over, Cayden was awesome & listened well & answered the dr's questions. He said it isnt' chicken pox or measels, but wanted to test him for strep, otherwise he thought it was just a virus that had to work his course. I told him Cayden had just had a cold last week, and he said that could be the end of it getting out of his system.

The nurse came in & did the throat swab for Strep, poor Cayden gaged and had watery eyes. She came back with a coupon for a free ice cream cone from DQ, which had him cheesed & wanting to leave immediately to go get it.

ITS NOT STREP. The dr told me it will just need to run it's course and that we should do cool baths and keep him moisturized, if it gets any worse bring him back.

Waiting for the dr to look at his "scratches" as he calls them.

What Prestyn did during the visit.

Coloring on the paper while we wait.

"God was bothering me"

My early morning conversation with Cayden today!

Cayden: "Mom, God was bothering me when I was sleeping!"

Me: "How was he bothering you?"

Cayden: "He was talking to me and bothering me, and Prestyn too!"

Me: "What did he say?"

Cayden: "He said that He loves Prestyn and that He loves me too. He said He loves all of us!"

Me: "Well that seems pretty nice!"

Cayden: "Yeah, I have to go potty!"

RASH!?! EXCEMA?? or what?

Okay, so if you have ANY IDEA whatsever of what this might be, please let me know. I'm thinking excema (like he had when he was a baby) or some sort of heat rash. Everything I've googled doesn't seem to match up!

so....after breakfast yesterday morning (Saturday) I noticed Cayden had some spots on his neck (and no - we didn't eat anything abnormal- all things we've had before) Initially I freaked out thinking chicken pox etc. Then I calmed down & made a game out of it, made him touch the ceiling with this hand etc, so I could see where all it was at. It was mostly on his shoulders (kinda like his collar bone area)

So Justyn gave him a bath while I cleaned up breakfast etc.

After lunch, it had spread & gotten bigger - that's when I took pics.

DAY 1:

It really reminded me of when he was just under a year & I had come home from a girls weekend with my sisters and mom and Cayden was from the neck to his privates covered like this.....poor boy.

We lubed him up with his excema cream yesterday and put vicks on it last night since he's been batteling a cold all week, runny nose, sneezing etc....

We had him sleep on his mattress in our room last night too just so we could keep an eye on him. (to top this off Prestyn started up with a runny nose last night too)

DAY 2

and this is how much it's spread...poor boy, he's starting to say it itches today...gave a lukwarm bath today and patted dry, put oatmeal lotion on etc.

I'm planning to call & get him in first thing in the am tomorrow. It might be nothing, just excema, or something that needs to run its course, but I need to KNOW. My poor boy, I feel so bad for him & so helpless...when I rub the lotion on it just feels bumpy & sore. I wish I could make it all go away & make him better. Please pray it goes away quickly & that we know what it is. THANKS

IF YOU LIKE TO TALK TO TOMATOE'S

Sorry, this is the song Cayden has been obsessed with singing & its in my head and obviously tomatoes make me think of his veggie tales song!!

moving right along:

We came home from vacation to all of this garden produce, and I've picked more tomatoes and zucchini since then. I just chopped 16 cups of zucchini for the freezer - not even sure how much I already have in there.
So I decided to venture into canning and made a batch of salsa and a batch of pasta sauce. This is my salsa....it smelled really yummy, and was actually quiet fun to do...and ALL my jars sealed! YAY for a successful first time!!

I got 5 pints of salsa and 5 pints of pasta sauce!! SUCCESS!

We told Cayden.....

We told Cayden last night that we are having another baby. He's too smart & would have picked it up, so we told him at dinner. He smiled, looked at us funny and said "so, can we just sell Prestyn, and then we get a girl baby?"

We both started laughing, but made sure he knew that Prestyn was still ours too, we were just going to have one more baby, so it would be him, Prestyn and the new baby. We let him know that we are keeping Prestyn.

He said "oh, well I want a girl baby"

SILLY BOY!

Number 3

A new picture we had to share! :) We are very excited!!

Where's Cayden?

Do you see him?? We were shopping at Old Navy and Cayden was standing looking at the manequins, I told him to say hi, he did and then laughed. I asked him if he'd like his picture taken with them and he said "yes", climbed up, looked at the girl & said "hi"! I was about rolling it made me laugh so hard! Silly boy!