Finally on the mend...we hope!

It's been quite a week at the Friedt household.  Apparently all the germs in a 10 mile radius got together and held a conference at our house without asking permission because we would have never willingly agreed to such madness!  It all started Monday night when Josiah came down with the stomach flu...and by "came down with" I mean we were up from 12:30-5:00 trying to minimize the damage that his reappearing breakfast/lunch/dinner was causing.  Anywho...after 4 sheet/pj changes, the little guy was finally able to get some sleep (mommy too)!  Relief!  But the story is just getting started.  Tuesday night, Seth came home looking like he had green face paint on...seriously, I don't think I've ever seen someone look THAT green without paint assistance!  So, he was down for the count Tuesday night/Wednesday as I was walking around bragging how "I don't have time to get sick, I'm the mommy!"  Uh-huh.  Turns out that while I truly don't "have time" to be sick, sometimes the body revolts anyway!  Thursday afternoon/evening was a miserable few hours complete with an experience I had never had before and never want to have again.  I will spare you the details, you are welcome.  So, as I drifted off to sleep Thursday night I was thinking "Good, now we've all had it and can move on with life"  Riiiiiggghhht, not so much.  While the stomach flu had indeed moved on, Josiah woke up Friday with a high fever and was obviously in pain of some sort.  A trip to the doctor and we had our answer.  Poor little guy had an ear infection, strep infection and hand/foot/mouth disease (which causes blisters in the throat).  No wonder he wasn't too keen on eating or doing much of anything!  I'm not sure how much more a little guy can have at one time but I hope to never find out!  But, in usual kid fashion, he woke up Saturday morning almost back to himself.  That amoxicillin is amazing stuff:-)  He is still a bit touchy and we are still doing tylenol regularly to help with the sore throat but he is definitely on the mend and we are SO grateful!  Obviously we didn't document this wonderful week with too many pictures but this is how I found Josiah sleeping the other night and it pretty much sums it up: