Hand, foot and mouth sickness

The poor Hebb children have the hand, foot and mouth sickness. High fevers, crankiness, and blisters...not fun. Jameson has them on the inside and outside of his mouth and all over his hands and feet. Jack just on the inside of his mouth, but he keeps pointing inside his mouth and crying. We went to see the doc on Saturday when just Jameson was sick and she said it's highly contagious and Jack would probably get it so I wasn't really surprised. What I was surprised at hearing is that a 103+ degree temperature isn't something to be super worried about! It's your child's demeanor that you have to watch. Like if you can't wake him easily or he's inconsolable, that kind of thing. Anyway, the whole thing should last about a week and because it's viral, it can't be treated with antibiotics or anything. Just Tylenol and Motrin.

More recently...

First: Jack and Jim in our pool
Second: Jack's "I know I'm cute" face.
Third: Chillin' out watching Thomas.
Fourth: WWF wrestling on the sofa.

It's the 4th of July and poor Jameson has a summer virus. Still cute as ever, just with a few tiny sores on the outside of his mouth.

Jack's frog

Today we went outside and across the street to my parents house. They have a fish pond that's almost ready for the year. Jack found a frog! He picked it right out of the water, held it and was totally fascinated by it. Also not scared or cautious at all. He really loved catching him and would pick him up, examine him then toss him back into the water. Then wait until the frog would swim back to the edge close enough for Jack to pluck him out again. I have to say I wasn't sure if I was going to let this happen at first, but I figured this is what boys do. Get dirty and play with frogs. He was gentle enough and the frog wasn't exactly trying to keep his distance from Jack. It was really cool to watch him discover a frog for the first time! I'll upload the video soon too!

Good times

The wagon..Jack likes to push, pull or just walk right beside it. Jameson is perfectly happy riding in it. He's crawling and drinking from a sippy cup as if he's been doing it his whole life. :) The dog in the picture is my friend, Carisa's dog, Riley. She is so sweet and great with the kids. She loves to lick them, they love it right back. Jameson especially!

His party is this Sunday and he'll be 1, but he's still my tiny baby. Nicky is making the cake, Charlotte's Web theme! There will be a web in the corner and the writing will say "That's some baby!". She's so talented and creative and came up with that idea by herself.

Jack still isn't speaking yet, but he's talking about something pretty much all the time. I can kinda get the topic of the conversation, sometimes. He's got it all figurerd out though in his own little brain. :)

They're both so sweet and perfect.

Jack was in the tub and we use a small plastic mixing bowl that he plays with and I rinse him with. Tonight he figured out that when he pours the water out just right, the water lands on his tinkler and he thought that was just the greatest thing.

Turkeys

So today I look out the family room window with Jameson and there's these turkeys! Three real-live, large turkeys walking in our back yard around the pear tree! I didn't let Gus outside, I had to get a picture of them! No batteries. By now they've cornered themselves in the fence by the white garage that's seperate from our house. I watched and watched figuring I had no time to get new batteries and have them still be there to photograph. They were in no hurry to get out and I kinda thought they were stuck so I ran to get the batteries. When I got back, they were up on the fence...all three of them. They hopped onto the other side of the fence andjustpranced around like they owned the place! All over our yard, our neighbor's-The Gomez's-yard...without a care in the world! I got a picture of them as they were making their way up Breezewood Lane past our mailbox. Once I was done, another neighbor, Mr. Fred, told me he's seen them a couple of times over the last few weeks. Again, acting like they owned the place! Not scared in the least of humans or dogs or anything! I'm sure no one else cares about these birds as much as I do, but they were really cool.


Poor Jameson...his reflux is getting worse and had to be switched to another medicine, Prevacid. It's a p-word pump inhibitor. I can't remember what the first p-word is. It completely shuts off the production of belly acid. He's having a really hard time sleeping during the day, but still sleeps at night...thank goodness. He arches his little back and screams bloody murder! It breaks my heart. Jack had it too, but his was very well controlled on a medication called Axid. Not as strong as Prevacid. Prevacid is also prescribed for adults in a different dose. It'a real pain to give him. It's a pill that you break apart and pour out the granules, then try to figure out what half looks like, stir it up in his baby food and hope he doesn't spit up all the baby food! Not fun at all.

Jack is great as usual. His first boo-boo healed just fine. :)