Memorial Day

There is this song by ABBA called "The Visitors." Its kind of creepy, but it talks about how her doorbell rings and these "visitors" come and take over her life. Well, I can't get the song out of my head! Maybe its because we've had so much company lately?!? If anyone knows how to get that song embedded into this post, please share! I can't seem to figure it out!!

This last week we had my mom, my sister, James's brother and sister in law and of course, my brother Nate staying with us. As luck would have it, the first day our company was here, we found out that both of the boys had strep! We started the Amoxicillin and the next afternoon they felt quite a bit better, soooo we crammed an entire weekend of activities into one day- Memorial day!

First, the men did a bike ride to the beach and back. Then a fabulous home-made crepe breakfast, then the beach, the movies and finally, my brother watched the boys while James, his brother Shawn and sister in law Kathy, Annabelle and I went out to dinner at Vigilucci's in Carlsbad. Uh Maze ING! Lobster, crab, Alaskan Halibat, Shrimp, Salmon all Italian style- UUUUUUUnbelievable and finish it off with chocolate lava cake and gelato- UUUuuuunforgetable. Man, it was a good day.

Photos:


It was really much to cold to be at the beach, but do you think that stopped us?






We love it when these guys come to visit! We always have so much fun! We miss them so much!!




Haley had been going through severe Annabelle withdrawals!





At California adventure last week, Dillon went on the "Tower of Terror" ride for the first time- here's the photo... I think he's less scared than Haley and Nate!?!!





Charlie played it cool and hung out with Pluto while we waited for Dillon. He wouldn't leave Pluto alone! He wanted to pet his tail, touch his ears, give him Eskimo kisses and at one point (about his 5th turn with Pluto) he broke out singing "It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time!" Pluto was dancing and there was a whole group gathered around laughing and clapping! I tried to get it on video...but couldn't get the camera out and ready in time through my hysterical laughing and tears!



Does this kid look sick to you?




The boys finished their course of antibiotics Friday night. Saturday afternoon, I noticed Charlie had what looked like irritation around his waistband. I didn't think much of it until the next morning. It looked like hives all over his body! He insisted that it wasn't itching or bothering him, but Monday morning it was worse so we took him in. Look at this crazy rash! Looks painful, huh?




He decided that he had turned into a speckled frog. Now that its getting better, he says, "Mom- I'm going to be Charlie again soon!"



The pediatrician thought it was a delayed allergic reaction, but to be sure we went to the Dermatologist upstairs (James had just begun his rotation in Derm that morning- ironic?). The second he sees Charlie he grabs his camera! After getting the history he says, "Thanks Dr. Mathews! You've brought me the coolest case all month!" He thinks Charlie had Epstein Bar virus- or mononeucleosis and the antibiotic treatment caused him to break out in this crazy rash. Its rare, so it totally made his day! Glad we could be of service! lol

Anyway, the test results are still out and we get funny looks when we take him out, so even though its looking better today, for now he's housebound.

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