It would be, could be, be the pox.
It would be, could be with the spots
It would be, could be red and itchy
It makes him squirm, it makes him twitchy
those spots are mean those spots are horrid
tomorrow they could spread to his forehead
for now they are just on his back and tummy
those spots are not nice, the pox is not funny
I do not like the chickenpox
I do not like those itchy spots.
Yep, looks like we got ’em 🙁
Davies came to me yesterday afternoon with an ‘itchy bit on his tummy’ which he had been scratching so was surrounded by red marks. He had obviously knocked the head off it so it looked more like a small scratch. This morning he has four more on his back and another three on his front and one on his shoulder. Reckon we got them pox!
Cancelled going to WAG group but as Jenny was the only other potential attendee and her lot have all had it we ended up going round there for a couple of hours this afternoon – which was very nice as always 🙂 The kids are of ages where they largely ignore each other but do so in peace and harmony leaving Jenny and I to drink tea and chat 🙂
Davies’ behaviour has been better today actually – I have made a conscious effort to really praise him for everything he has done well or right and maybe been slightly tougher on Tarly too – whatever the balance seems to have sorted itself out a bit today anyway 🙂
We tried to do some Studydog this morning but he started well and got bored with letter spotting in the sentences by letter g (it was quite repetitive but I don’t see how else he is going to grasp letter recognition other than by repitition work 🙁 ) he did try another bit but he was not listening to what the instructions were telling him he had to do and then announced he was bored – I think we need to try that one again another time as I thought it was pretty good and he did like the animations and so on, so I think it still has potential. He does struggle generally with applying himself to a task if he deems it boring or too hard – tough to find the middle ground there really 🙁 Will continue pondering and trying different stuff until we hit the right approach I guess. I know he *is* learning and it does seem to be much more through general conversation and asking questions than anything I am consciously doing with him. He also seems to pick stuff up well from the TV – his basic spanish from Dora is great and he often asks me to give him instructions for up, open, stop etc in spanish but if I try to get out a spanish sticker book or activity he runs a mile. Must keep up with the Class TV – I think that is a good avenue for him.
Tarly made me laugh today – I had just changed her nappy (a pooh) and she looked at me with a cute grin and said ‘thank you for tidying up my bottom Mummy!’ She is so ready for losing the nappies but refuses point blank to sit on a potty – thinking about getting one of those kiddy loo seats for her to see if she’ll go straight to the toilet instead. I think part of her problem is she has no example to follow in using the potty but she clearly knows when she needs to go to the loo so perhaps I should focus on that a bit during our current quarantine period!
Have loads of ‘stuff’ I should be doing; work and home wise, might do a job list later actually. Tomorrow we are going over to Julie’s and I have planned to take some easter activities with us to engage the children in something creative and artistic. Rather do that sort of thing in someone else’s house 🙂
Argh – where’d you get that from then?
Comment by Merry — 23 March 2005 @ 8:18 pm
Not at all sure 🙁 I’m guessing TT1 or TT2 although it could just have easily been a random child in a supermarket! Am now desperate for Tarly to either get it in the next week or not at all! Really annoying that we were in quarantine for half term and now will be for Easter hols too though, they have not seen their little mates who go to school for months!
Comment by Nic — 23 March 2005 @ 9:22 pm
It’s rife here as well. Every second child has it, and all the activities are decimated. Fortunately, we’ve done that, with the full blown admit-to-hospital-and-scare-the-living-daylights-out-of-us-AGAIN version, so if you weren’t 500 miles away, you could visit us 🙂
Comment by Joyce — 23 March 2005 @ 10:10 pm
yeah, that is just a wee bit too far….meet you in the middle? 🙂
Comment by Nic — 23 March 2005 @ 10:17 pm
I’m telling you, it’s the bloody blogring! Heather says she doesn’t have a clue where else her girls could have got it from, either.
Hope he’s not too bad with it, Nic.
Comment by Sarah — 24 March 2005 @ 8:24 am
Sarah, i don’t care how weird it is, viruses DON’T spread like that!
Comment by Merry — 24 March 2005 @ 2:53 pm