One of These Things is Not Like the Other!!

So we camped with the Katoa family this weekend and even a lot of rain couldn't stop us from having a great time! But I will write about camp later, this post is about this.....

Can you tell what I am talking about?

Do you notice anything different between the 2 hands?

Saturday morning when I was helping Little Hema wash his hands before eating breakfast, I noticed his hand was swollen, just a little. I thought it was a mosquito bite that he had scratched.

Then it started to grow a little more swollen. I called the doctor, they said give him some Benadryl and he should be fine. (This was Saturday - you can see that his left hand is a little swollen.)

He came into my room early this morning and woke me up and was crying and saying, "my hand is open." What does that mean?? It took me a minute to wake up and figure out that his hand was so swollen he couldn't close it. I called the Dr. again and they said they thought he probably had been bitten by a spider and we should go to the emergency room to make sure it wasn't infected or something serious. "These things can get bad really fast" were his exact words. Not too comforting. Hema was pretty freaked out to be in the ER.

Based on further examination they believe it was most likely a spider bite from something poisonous or that he had a reaction to, they gave us an antibiotic and instructions to use Benadryl for the next week to be sure that we had it covered whether it was poison, infection or allergic reaction. Once Little Hema found out that he would not be getting any shots, her calmed right down and asked the doctor to please hurry so that we wouldn't miss church! By the time church was over it had already started to look much better! And apparently, it hasn't effected his love for things spider related, because he is playing in his Spiderman costume now!!

And now here is a shot of Vela's toenails. I have never painted them before, she really doesn't like to hold still very long, which I know is typical for a 20 month old. But when I was painting mine she came over and lifted up her foot and said "toes - pretty pretty" so I painted them nice and bright and glittery. She loves them and can't stop looking at them or showing them to people. So cute!