open mouth, insert foot . . . and hand?

Over the weekend, Lydia broke out in what looked like a heat rash or fever rash. She also had a low-grade fever but for once I was not too worried and I'll be damned if I was going to go running to the doctor for every little thing. Lydia will sometimes run a low fever -- we're talking like 99 degrees here -- for no reason for all then it will go away. Her cousin had a similar rash and her pediatrician said it was a fever rash. Lydia was fine otherwise so off we went to daycare on Tuesday.

That afternoon the daycare was calling me about the rash; they were not amused. It apparently looked similar to Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease which the Christopher Walken kid -- little girl in Lydia's class looks JUST LIKE HIM -- got diagnosed with earlier that day.

Sigh.

So off we go to the doctor's. When he walked in I said, "Hey, at least it's something different."

And of course she had the Hand, Foot, and Mouth disease, too. It sounds horrible, but you know what it is? A non-itchy rash and mouth ulcers with low-grade fever -- it's just highly contagious.

So she was out of daycare for a day and back yesterday, where she started kissing on another boy that was not her boyfriend so he came up and whacked her. Ahh, young love!