So, yesterday we had all of the girl cousins and Jaxon for a sleep over. They were having so much fun playing hide and seek, riding scooters, eating....basically anything that would make them dirty and stinky! When we were getting ready for bed I told all of the kids that they had to take a bath. Abby (my sweet niece) DID NOT want to take one. My mom said that no one had to do anything that they didn't want at grandma's......good rule, usually! I said that they all needed to and that we could get Abby to WANT to take one. I said that all of the girls would be playing in the tub and my mom said "It is a princess party!". Of course that made Abby want to take one! There was only room for 3 girls at a time in the tub so we put Katie, Kylee and Abby in for the first round. I got all heads of hair wet (being careful not to get any water in Abby's eyes). I then loaded up the heads with shampoo and started scrubbing away. When I got to Abby's and started on the side of her head she started to cry when I scrubbed against what I thought was a bumpy mole. I was very careful for the rest of the washing and conditioning. Once they were all clean and smelling MUCH better I took Abby out first. I decided to take a look at her 'mole'. I looked down and saw that her 'mole' had a bunch of legs and it head in Abby's head! AHHHH!!! It was a tick! I very calmly told Abby to hold on and then ran in to get my dad! What would we do without dads? Good thing he was there, neither I nor my mom would have been able to get it out! (wimps!) She was not happy (to be expected!) but sat there so good while my mom held her and my dad pulled that little bugger out of her head! Katie was mad because she didn't get to see the tick while still attached to Abby! :) All the kids and the dog then received a very complete and intense search for ticks! Luckily there were not any more of them. One of the things that gives me the willies is that I scratched it with my fingernails! Ewww!!! The sweet part of the whole thing is that when Abby was done being debugged, she wanted to call her dad to get the needed sympathy that comes from dads.....see! What would we do without dads?!
Grandpa looking at the tick.
See the tick in there?
YUCK!!!! Poor Abby!
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That's gross. I had a tick once when I was probably about Abby's age. Poor Abby!!
Temaire! So good to hear from you. And not so good to hear about the tick! blach!! Hope to keep in touch.
Yuckaroo! I lived in Georgia until I was almost 8 so I know about ticks! YUCK YUCK YUCK!! How's Abby? Back to a normal or needing therapy! Poor Abby!
She is doing okay, but all of the kids made me look through their hair the next day to make sure that they didn't have any! I think maybe they are ALL traumatized! lol I felt the same way, my skin kept feeling all creepy crawly! lol
Hate ticks!! We have to do frequent tick checks here. I've had to pull a few out of me. YUCK!!
Hi Tamaire I just found your blog through Emma's blog. Sounds like you are having some fun times.
You can check out our blog at pachuilo.blogspot.com. By the way this is Ashle Higbee as you remember me.
Hi Temaire!!! How are you? Your poor Abby? Your family is so cute. You look great! I'm liking this blogspot, keep in touch!!!
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