Poor Jarem woke up Monday morning looking like this... We suspect it was sun poisoning since regardless of the amount of sunscreen we lathered on his face the few days before, he kept getting sun. He has such light skin. We used three different types of sunscreens the day before, and after reading up on sun poisoning, it says it can be an allergy to a sunscreen that is activated by light. His poor little nose had lots of little blisters and his face was hot, red, and swollen. Regardless of the cause, he was a bit miserable most of the day, but especially because we wouldn't let him swim in the pool with the other kids. Finally, when the sun started to go down, we let him out to swim for a couple of hours.
Another picture of him after he woke up. The kids kept saying that he looked like a different person and Alex called him Chinaman because his eyes looked a little Chinese he said. After some Benadryl and staying out of the sun all day, he looked much better by the end of the day.
He looked in the mirror about halfway through the day and told Eric that he was only a little bit China now.
The kids enjoying Grandma Guelde's pool.
Tessa's new favorite thing is diving. She did a lot of that in her swimming lessons this summer.
Eric and Jarem sitting on the porch swing in the shade while the other kids swim.
Grandma had lots of old pictures and stories that she showed us and told us about. Eric and I took lots of pictures of the pictures she had and plan to make a book with names and relationships of his ancestors. It was very fun and interesting to learn about all the things she shared with us.
The kids always look forward to seeing their second cousins too when we go to Florida. Marley (left) and Allison (middle) are Eric's aunt's two youngest children. Allison and Alex are the same age and Jesikah and Marley are the same age. They really all have fun together.
Here some of them are camping out on Grandma's family room floor.
This is Eric and his Aunt Lisa. She is only ten years older than Eric so they kind of grew up together. With all Eric's gray hair it is hard to believe that Lisa is older. :) She & Denis came over Monday night with the kids to visit with us. Then the kids stayed overnight and she came back Tuesday morning with donuts for everyone before we left. She is a lot of fun.
Eric with his Grandma. He has always been close to his Grandma Guelde because he spent many summers with her and his grandpa when he was a teenager. He has many fond memories with them. She is a sweet lady. It's hard to believe that she will be 80 next month. She hardly has any wrinkles. We had a lot of fun with her. She is such a sweet lady.
The whole group of us (minus me who was taking the picture) in Grandma's kitchen before we headed home Tuesday morning.
2 comments:
Oh Rozanne! Poor little guy!!! It is kind of sad/funny/and cute all at the same time! I think that is cute when he said he only looked a little bit China now. How sweet is that? You guys travel a ton, eh?
It looks like sunpoisoning.
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