Birthday parties and more

Today was the last of the girls birthday party celebration. On Thursday, they had some of their preschool friends, the neighborhood and church come to the park to celebrate their birthday. They were very blessed to have received many wonderful gifts. It was a lot of fun to see their preschool teacher and her daughters.
That night Ashley started to come down with something. On Friday she basically had a fever all day. The highest the temp got was 103. She was just miserable. I looked into her throat and her tonsils were large and she had some spots in her mouth. Then I looked in Abbey's mouth because she said her mouth had a sore and there were tons of red dots all over her mouth. By Friday night Abbey was also running a low grade fever. On Saturday morning, Abbey was showing signs of pussy spots now. We decided to take them both into Urgent Care. They have foot and mouth disease! YUKE. Poor babies...It's a viral infection so they cannot give them anything and it's not a easy viral infection to have. It will be painful. So we got home and just took it easy. Shannon and Abbey fell asleep on the couch for a few hours. They haven't slept on the couch together for a long time.
While we were coming home from the clinic, we called and spoke to the family members that were suppose to be coming over on Sunday to see if they still wanted to come over. Since the girls were contagious up until their fever broke (which was on Sat) they weren't contagious anymore. We wanted to make sure that everyone knew what was going on and left it all up to them. Everyone said yes.
So while Abbey and Shannon slept, I worked on the girls special birthday cake-Strawberry Shortcake. Ashley played and then came and watched me. I had to make two of the cakes since I broke the first one. Ashley had to tell Shannon that one, so while he was sleeping on the couch, she ran over to the couch and told him to quit snoring because I broke the cake. It was very funny.
On Sunday we had great weather and great company. Abbey was really having a tough time. Some of her blisters popped and her tongue is covered in white spots, etc. She is having a hard time eating. Ashley was doing much better. Both girls have the spots/blisters all over their bodies.
Mommy and daddy are exhausted but we loved celebrating with the girls. Ashley kept asking when more friends were coming. She didn't want us to take down any of their decorations. They are excited because they received their big girl bikes for their birthday.