Hand, Foot, & Mouth Sickness

K so who has heard of this sickness? Well my friend and I hadn't at all and Cooper and her kids got it. I found Cooper had it on day 5 of a 7 day thing. It started with a fever for a couple days, which I just thought was a fever that he got from his friend and then on day 3 he kept complaining that this mouth hurt. He would take a drink and say "sick". Then he kept waking up at night crying uncontrollably and it would take me a while to get him calm enough to put back to bed. So I thought it was 1 of two things, he grinds his teeth so I thought they might be getting sensative since he cries at night and when he drinks water. Or I thought it could be his two year molars that haven't shown up yet. Well than after 3 nights of crying and trying to look in his mouth, with no luck because Cooper freaks if he is restrained in any way, I took him to the Doctor. My friend told me her boys got Hand, Foot, Mouth so I tought I would check to see if that was it so I wouldn't spread it to other kids. It's highly contagious, but not harmful. Kids can get blisters on your feet, hands, and soars in their mouth. When the doctor looked Cooper had soars on the back of his throat. But by the end of the day at the doctor Cooper's appetite was back and he drank and ate everything with occasional pain. He was also getting an ear infection too, so that was really good I went in to get some medication. So we are all healthy and pretty much every kids from 1-4 years old in our ward has had it. How fun it is when sicknesses spread!! And might I had who was the clever person who thought of the name for this sickness, a lot of thought and creativity was put into it.


Sick Sunday
Well right now Cooper, Trip, and I are hanging out while Daddy is at church. Cooper has an ear ache and this thing called foot,hand, mouth disease. He is at the tail end of it, but it's highly contangious so I didn't want to take him to nursery. We have had a fun week of him being sick. It's almost like Trip new Cooper needed more attention and he was jealous. I spent one whole day taking turns letting one kid cry while I held one and then swapped and let the other cry while I held the other. Then that night Cooper kept waking up crying from 10:30pm-2am and then just as I fell asleep Trip decided he wanted to be up from 3-5am just for fun happy as can be. He usually sleeps from about 9:30pm-6am, but no that night. Suprisingly I have stayed in a great mood and it hasnt' worn me out. I just feel bad for Cooper who has been so sick running fevers and having blister soars on his throat, and an ear ache. He just walked around the house saying "sick, sick". Here are some random picturs of Cooper's room and just