November 18th, 2012 by Busy Mommy

Well, no sooner did Nolan start to “get better” from his 6 week cold/cough with profuse never ending nasal phlegm full of bacteria (I know, nice visual isn’t it?), then he gets the Chicken Pox.  A week ago, on Saturday, Nolan started getting a high fever around 101.4 or so every day for a couple hours in the afternoon, then it would go away.  At the time I thought perhaps it was his body finally rising to the occasion and fighting his cold more efficiently.  But then on thursday I saw little bumps around his mouth.  Then friday night he had a bunch of very raised bumps all over his feet.  Now they are on the backs of legs, the top of one hand, and a couple on his tummy.

Aside from being very clingy and wanting lots of mommy cuddle time, which I quite enjoy most of the time myself anyway, he’s in pretty good spirits and he’s not too itchy yet- but I know that is to come.

We will be endeavoring to do lots of fun things at home since now even the park is off limits, being that chicken pox is so contagious.  Yesterday we worked on a fun craft gluing seed catalog pictures and colored paper to a boring old clipboard so this mommy will have something to remind me of my dear little son while I’m working.Nolan has  been having a lot more, shall we say, power struggles, lately.  I’ll get into that more later, but at 3 years old he is starting to find that he really knows most everything there is to no, and certainly more than mommy and daddy by a long shot.  After getting far too demanding and not listening to his dear mother, I left him in the kitchen for awhile to let him rant and rave on his own.  After a few minutes I realized it was very very quiet in the kitchen.  I figured maybe he had started gluing stuff on his own again.  When I went to check on him, here’s how I found him: