Yesterday John noticed that Madeline had several red spots on her and took her to the doctor to confirm.....it's the Chicken Pox. Ugh! For a vaccinne that is supposed to be 95 - 97% effective, how is that two of the three kids in my household have gotten the pox. Crazy. The good thing is that with the vaccine, much like Keegan, Madeline is experiencing a very mild case of it. Not too much itching. The doctor started her on Acyclovair yesterday, so we are hoping by the end of the weekend she'll be fine.

Keegan is doing fine. His face has really filled out and I'm not sure if it's that "moon face" that people get when they are on steroids, or if it's just that he's gained most of his weight back. He will go back to CHO next Thursday for his second treatment of Remicade. The GI and infectious disease team at CHO felt it was best to wait another week, just to be safe. Hopefully we will be talking about getting him off the Prednisone, too. You have to taper off, I guess, not just stop.

Sebastian has shown no signs of chicken pox, thank goodness. Now it has been two weeks since they were both exposed to Keegan's pox and I don't think we can safely say Sebastian will be pox free until 2 weeks from now. In the meantime, he is enjoying the rest of his summer. Soon he will go take the entrance/placement exam for high school and we'll start all that fun. Can't believe the summer is almost over.

John and I met with a loan officer yesterday to discuss our options with our housing. This gentleman works with the real estate agent who sold our landlord the house, and confirmed that he may be in trouble with the house. Hopefully we will get confirmation of that soon, so we can figure out what our next step is. In the meantime, the loan officer is going to run all our data and tell us exactly what we need to focus on in order to get into a house the quickest. I hate all things financial and really want this all to be done.

Other than that.....things are moving along. We still haven't been able to meet our lovely new nephew yet. Was hoping to get to Fresno this weekend, but that's not going to happen. Will probably have to wait another full two weeks, to make sure that we are not poxy. Ugh! I've signed up for fall classes already. Limiting myself to just two. Physical Anthropology and Statistics (yes again!). Fun stuff.