Blessing in disguise

All week we've been struggling a little with Cooper and his nap time.  Usually he eats lunch around noon and goes down for a nap right after.  Every day this week it's taken him a long time to fall asleep and he kept trying to get up and play and all sorts of tricks to keep himself awake.  So yesterday I decided that I would go to Costco right after lunch and put him down for a nap when we got home.  Of course as soon as we pull in the parking lot he starts to nod off and I keep talking to him and tapping him to keep him awake.  When we got into Costco, as I was shopping, this lady walked by laughing at him because his head was bobbing and then WHACK, right into the handle of the cart... I helped show him to lay on his arm and he slept for about 20 minutes.

So, there was his nap for the day. About 1/6 of a normal nap.  It was really nice outside and he was a happy lil' fella so we decided to go over to the Fry's house.  When we got there we all decided to go see UP! with Cooper, Mike and Kayla.  He did great at the movie (a big thanks to Mike for buying him popcorn) and he got to snuggle with his new favorite gal, "almost" Aunt Kayla. When the movie was over we went back to the Fry's and Cooper went outside for a little.  When it was time to go Grandpa helped him into the car and we went home to meet up with Jake who was just getting home from work.  

When I pulled up and went to get Cooper out of the car (he had been sleeping the whole way home) he was passed out in his seat and he had a giant red rash on his leg.  It almost looked like lots of little bites. The weird thing was that it wasn't there when we left twenty minutes earlier.  I took a closer look and there were a bunch of little brown bumps. I tried to pull at one and decided to go inside and get some tweezers.  When I tried to pull one out it came out fairly easily and I was surprised at how long these things were! They looked like tiny little stakes. Like thorns of some type I guess but very straight, very sharp, and very irritating for his skin.  He started to wake up after about the 6th or 7th one that I pulled and he still had a few in him.  It was really good he was so tired and sleeping so deeply because when he finally woke up and felt what I was doing it was a freakout fest.  He's still a little rashy this morning and we tried to pull a big one out.  Hopefully they find themselves out because I don't know that I'll get anywhere even close to that leg any time soon.