Signs of Summer

Well, the boys are officially finished with school for the summer! And summer is very well present already at our home!

Yesterday before Jared left for school, I noticed a bunch of scratch marks on his neck. I asked him about it and he said it just itched. Didn't think anything of it after that.

After school, I noticed some red blistery bumps on Tyler's neck. We had went geocaching on Sunday and I know that poison ivy shows up a few days later, so I had our culprit. I quickly realized that this was probably the cause of Jared's scratches and sure enough, upon closer examination I saw that Jared, too, had poison ivy on his neck and jaw line.

I asked Tyler if it had been itching for awhile and he said it had started at school that day and he told his teacher, but the teacher thought it was just a mosquito bite (at the time it was just a bump or two). I asked why he didn't tell me when he came home. "Because Mr. Trexler said it was a mosquito bite."

Oh, the innocence of youth. I wonder how much longer we have of the kids believing that the adults have all of the answers?