Making Friends

OK, the title could be deciving. The boys were trying to make friends with a pile of ants. Aiden ran to me right away and I took a couple off his hands and feet. Then I pulled Alex inside and took 2 off his feet. They looked fine and were crying only because I had them inside. I gave then a little Tylenol for the discomfort. They wanted to go back outside to play. I cleaned where the ants were and then let them go out on the other side of the yard. All was well until I said "bath time." When I got Alex undressed, this is what I saw:
(It is hard to see how much red covered his body with the pictures on the computer, but you can see how he was still so happy.)


He never cried once!!!! I have not clue what happened other than to say they got him before I could get to him, and then they all went off. It looks now that it was not as many bites as we thought. He just got really red from some of them. Granted, he did have 30-50 bites, but that night we would have thought it was over 100. Oh and I was home alone with the twins!!! I put them in the tub (Aiden had none other than his fingers). I called my mom. When she got here we called the doctor. Everything we had done was perfect so far -- cool bath, Tylenol, and now he told me how much Benadryl. I think the bath made it look a little worse -- the reddness came out more with the warmth from the water. But he never missed a beat. He played like nothing had happened. Of course, everyone had to come check on him that night, but he was interested in playing. I cannot get over how he did not even really scratch (only in the tub with the warm water). Well, never a dull moment with twin toddler boys, right?

UPDATE: Alex is doing great. He slept the night well and looked much better Thursday morning.