Best Sick Kids Ever?

Two weeks ago Padon woke up and his eyes were gummy. The kind of gummy I got A LOT as a little kid. I told Walter that I used to get it a lot when I was little and I thought it was just another symptom of a cold. But then gradually as the day went on his eyes got puffier and grosser until we were starting to suspect Pink Eye. Walter scheduled a doctor's appointment and the next morning we learned that Padon didn't have Pink Eye but an ear infection; what! Who knew your ear infection could back up into your eyes?! Gross! At the question to whether Padon's ear hurt he replied "eh...", like not really... Dr. Go gave Walter two things of antibiotics and eye drops and said to watch Pia to see if her eyes didn't start to get gunky too.

Two days later Pia also had the gunky eyes with no complaints and no crying. Both kids were troopers and never complained of pain or achy ears. - As the following week went by Sophia's eyes continued to be gunky if the eye drops weren't given to her (again no crying), and a generic cough, that both Padon and Sophia had, started to get worse. We wondered if something was up but was the brush of the ear an ear ache for Sophia or just irritating wisps of hair tickling? Walter and I were riding the I-hate-this-winter-and-lagging-colds band wagon until last night when both Padon and Sophia went to bed coughing and the cough quickly got so bad they were whooping and gagging themselves awake. We inclined their beds, dosed them with Get Better Bear, and decided that maybe another trip to the doctor was in order.

I went to bed wondering if I sounded like Padon did in his bedroom if it would have been enough for my Mom to take me to the doctor when I was his age. - Walter scheduled another doctor's appointment and later called to say, "Yep! Sophia's got an ear infection in her left ear and both kids have strep throat." Cussing Strep Throat?! What kid doesn't comment on their throat hurting over Strep Throat?! And what kid eats, let alone oranges (Sophia!), with a sore throat! Thank goodness we had the awesomeness to have inclined their beds, since that was what the doctor had recommended. So Padon and Sophia have been sent home, each with their own bottle of strong antibiotics, they can't go to school tomorrow, Walter gets to call the school to say, "yeah, my kids caught that strep throat you posted that announcement about 3 weeks ago", and my kids rock for barely crying but over the discomfort of being woken up when they were tired.