Marker Pox!

We have an Arthur book that shows his little sister, DW, putting marker all over herself so that she can get the attention that Arthur gets when he has the chicken pox. There was a child off from the boys' school for the last week because she had chicken pox. So...Benjamin has marker pox...NOT chicken pox! He seems to think that having chicken pox is very bad and thus is too scared to think that he has chicken pox, so instead he insists it is just marker spots all over his chest and back.
The photo below is from yesterday when he wanted to lay around all afternoon instead of playing outside as is his norm. So we set him up on our bed to watch a video and when his brothers saw his set up they too came along to watch the construction video. We thought Benjamin was just tired but when he started to get undressed for bed last night, we saw the reason for his fatigue and, by then, fever. So Alexander is still "marker" free this morning but we are just waiting. Shawn is staying home with both boys this morning so we don't get everyone at church infected; I teach Sunday School, so Shawn is the one to stay home. Hannah and Jacob have both had the vaccine so we hope they will be exempt from these lovely marker spots so I will take them along to church this morning.
If Benjamin lets me take some photos later, I will post them in the next few days. I remember a picture of my sister and I when we were maybe 4 and 6 laying on our parents bed, both covered in chicken pox. So, of course, I need to get a good photo so he can have the same memory to share with his children.