Chicken Pox?

We gots them...The day after the last fever broke from the nasty sickness I notice Tajia has what appears to be pimples on her face. The next morning they are on her arms. I thought she had impentigo (spelling on that one?) again so I took her in. And we have a doctor confirmed case of the chicken pox! We have already had friends over to share them with lol!
We are happy to be getting them done with while they are sill young, and this morning Deze woke up with 3 on her face and some on her tummy too!
We are non vaxers so the kids getting them on their own is a very good thing.....we are excited about this!
So if you are in the northern MN area and your child needs the pox, we are willing to have a pox party, just speak up! Seriously :)

The sickness that knocked us out!

We have all been sick for more then a week. Feeling better now, but it was bad. Endless days of high fevers, and barely moving. And if we did move we threw up. Shakes and chills, headaches, horrible, horrible headaches. But we all lived and made it through it. I am not sure how, at some point in time I had such a high fever that I was seeing things that were not there, that is when I called Geromy home from work to help with the kids....well that and the fact that I could not walk.
I am happy its done here, at least I pray its done here. I have been cleaning and sanitizing things like there is no tomorrow.

Time just keeps on going....

I feel like the hours in the day are melting away. Like there are no longer 24 hours. I don't even know what day it is anymore sometimes, between kids, appointments, watching other peoples kids and therapies.
We have been trying to get to parks and walk every day that it has been nice so far. It is helping Deze some, but she is still my wild child. My child that takes out a jello cup and says "ray ray hungry" then instead of eating it she mashes it in her hands and paints herself in it. She will not let it touch her mouth. One of the few things that she will not eat!
She chowed down some sunscreen just this morning. And Wednesday night bathtime was hell. For me! She says to me "ray ray paint" and I turn from the dishes which is a straight shot into the bathtub where she is (I could see her and hear her the whole time) and there she sits, with a ball of her POOP playing in it. Painting and mashing it. Thank god she was in the shower so clean up was not the end of the world!
Tonight she painted herself in honey....which by the way, is hard to get out of hair. In case you were all wondering!
Gabe is loving being able to go to parks again. He loves the outside, so long as he does not have to get dirty. I have to bring extra clothes with everywhere for him cause one spot of mud and he has to have it off NOW! He has been sleeping better with the activity.
We all walked 4 miles the other day and Deze was STILL up half the night. 2 hours of parks last night and she was up till 2am again. I am thinking she does not wear out!
My one frustration right now is when people attempt to compare kids with autism. There is no comparison, not even to another kid with autism. They are all severe, just in different ways. People assume that since both of mine with autism talk that they are very high functioning. I had someone tell me that the reason Deze's teachers say she is normal is cause they are used to kids with severe autism.....nice theory. But that is about as far as that goes. They are comparing her to 3yr olds at 4.5 yrs of age....and they LIE about what she does and doesn't do while there. (I have stayed with her more then once!)
I actually almost had a breakdown after my kids were compared to other kids, and I was told mine were "very mild cases".....I started to think I am just a bad mom and my kids are normal.