Fox Family Fun: Spring, MRSA and a Blanket Fort

We sure travel a lot this tri!! We went back to Colorado for Easter break. Maia and I flew out from Chicago the weekend before Easter, and J drove out later that week once school had wound down for the extended weekend. Karly had the week off from school so she also came out to visit! It was great to spend time with all my siblings, may quite possibly be the last time we are all together until after Scotts mission!

By the way my little brother DID FINALLY get his call!!! He will be serving in the Sydney, Australia mission Mandarin speaking. How awesome for him, I’m so excited for him and this opportunity he has. We’ve always wanted to visit Australia, so now we think we will save up to go see him when he is ready to come home! Especially since it’s perfect timing, we will be all graduated!

So most of our time in Colorado we go to just hang out, which was nice! I had lots of extra hands to help with Maia, which was perfect because I also had pneumonia! Yes that annoying cough I’ve had for like a month that I just kept brushing off? Turns out it actually was something! Good thing my mom caught it cuz I probably wouldn’t have done anything about it for a while to be perfectly honest. Coincidentally Mandy also had pneumonia at the same time, so we were nebulizer buddies.

Being spring and all we of course celebrated Easter. Maia LOVED visiting the Easter Bunny at the mall, in fact we had to tear her away from him! She was very sad to go. She had a blast finding Easter eggs too!

Of course Easter is not all about the Bunny and the Eggs! We were able to spend time with Grandma and Grandpa Brown as well as the LB’s! Well half the LB’s. We were able to take some time and reflect on the real celebration behind Easter, the crucifixion and resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I am so grateful for the atonement, so that it’s ok if I am not perfect at everything all of the time. So that I can live with my family again when this life is over, and thanks to the blessings of the temple I am sealed to them forever. I have such a wonderful life and am so truly unbelievably blessed to have such wonderful family and friends, and to be taken care of in so many ways.

Along with spring also came a new calling! I am not the Primary Secretary! There is lots to do, but I Love it! I am so excited about it! I have never been a super organized type of person but this is my chance to gain strength in those aspects of my life. I get to keep track of nearly 100 people, their contact info, names and faces and BIRTHDAYS!! I’m good at birthdays! If I’ve met you at least twice and you’ve told me your birthday chances are likely I remember it. At least the month if nothing else! I know I am not perfect in this aspect either, but I know birthdays. I guess I just want people to know that someone remembers them on their birthday!

So that is super fun! We have also had some less fun moments! Beginning with a little zit on Maia’s leg.

I noticed it that morning, and later in the day it looked more red, so I took a photo so I could compare, mostly because I thought I was being paranoid. Then the nect day it turned into this:

Okay that must be more than irritation from her diaper…maybe she got bit by a spider or something?

then another one showed up on the other leg! I only started to panic on the inside…and call and talk to all my family that is medically trained (i.e. Dr Bob and Nurse Mom).

A little hard to see because my flash is retarded! But it is the size of a dime and began to drain puss. It was hard like she had a little marble under her skin, she started walking funny so I know it was hurting her! So to set our minds at ease we went to the Urgent Care, because of course it was a weekend that this little bugger got worse during.

(Wednesday 3 days after treatment began, still hard spot but so much improvement!)

Doc didn’t know what to say, he told us it could be MRSA but wasn’t sure so took a culture and said help it keep draining by putting warm wet washcloth on it, and gave us some antibiotics. They said we’d have the results in two days, Tuesday (which would have been my birthday which I will post about later). Come Wednesday night I still hadn’t heard from them, so right as I figure no news is good news the lab calls me and basically says they forgot to call me Tuesday morning, by the way she’s positive for MRSA, so just make sure she takes all the antibiotics we gave you and call your doctor if it gets worse. That was it…so do yourselves a favor and don’t Google image search MRSA..it’s terrifying! I’ve done it multiple times now. My mom is MRSA positive, which is probably where Maia got it from in the first place, and when she first got it I wanted to know what it was and it scared the crap out of me. I have now learned once you get MRSA you always have it, kinda like the cold sore virus, so we just gotta keep our eyes open and hope she doesn’t get it again for a while!

To make this post even longer lets end on a more fun note! Maia and J love to play hide and seek! It’s adorable. And her favorite places to hide are under the kitchen table and in our bedroom closet. Because she likes to hide in the kitchen we thought it would be fun to make her a blanket fort!