Chickenpox and Caseworkers

So!
Here's our house 2 days before Solomon came down with.....The Chickenpox!!


Oh, yeah. It was an awesome time of many playdates with 10 children in our house. Needless to say, because Chickenpox has a long gestation period, all of these beautiful children were exposed. Luckily 2 of them had been vaccinated. But the rest were not. I made my rounds apologizing to parents. Now, thank the Lord, Sunday morning we skipped church as he wasn't feeling well. He wasn't spotty, yet, just feeling yucky. If we had gone he would have exposed the entire church! Anyhow, all the families were very understanding and, as a matter of fact, 8 children (including my niece) arranged for a playdate specifically to contract Chickenpox, thus getting them over with for their little ones while they're still small. I haven't heard back whether anyone has broken out yet, but I'm sure all the shared sippe cups and lollies will have their desired effect! Solomon's much better now and none of my others got it. My littles were vaccinated before they came to me, but I don't remember OKing that one for Malachi and he's still clear. Interesting. Guess time will tell as it can take 7-14 days to manifest.
Levi was the most disappointed with the whole thing because we'd planned to go to Chuck E Cheese for his birthday which was to be the day after until the spots appeared and spoiled our plans. He still managed to have a good time with a riegn check for ChuckE's and a smaller party at home. Most of the adults in the family were able to come and there was cake with candles and neat gifts. His favorite was the Darth Vader costume which I've just finally been able to peel off him and wash :)
Tuesday our new caseworker comes out to meet us. We've spoken on the phone and I have to say, I like the lady. Now, this may be in part because our old caseworker (the one we like and has been with us forever) may have had some pull in who she gave our case to. I got the feeling she was comfortable with who would be working with us from here. New lady seems very nice and we talked pretty in-depth about our family's needs, strengths and wishes. She understands our wish to adopt and, although we're both aware that this IS foster care, she's aware of our goals to attain permanency in at least SOME cases. So, after Tuesday we'll be officially "on the list". I was mentioning my "empty hip syndrome" now that Zephan is so big and grown-up. She assured me that my hip would soon be occupied.
It's making me smile as I write this because, although Zephan has all but retired from being carried, when I pick up a friend's baby, he immediatly regresses. Suddenly it's of utter importance that he be help RIGHT NOW. I'll have to arrange lots of one-on-one for my poor retired baby.
Anyway, at the tail end of all this Chickenpox nonsense, the family caught a nasty cold. So, I need to get off here and make my rounds refilling juice and chicken broth, handing out cough drops and garbaging snotty tissues. I'll leave you with a pic of Furgus falling asleep to the aroma of Kai-Kai's hinder. These 2 are so funny!