A House of Strep!

So a couple weeks ago, I noticed that Brooklyn's ear was draining fluid. She has tubes in her ears, so I knew she had an ear infection (that's what the tubes do....they drain the infection). We started putting the drops in her ears that are supposed to clear up the infection. 2 days later, her left ear started draining with no signs of her right ear clearing up. I had her 1 year old check-up the next day and Dr. Edwards gave me some stronger drops and said if they don't clear up in 2 days, to call our ear doctor, Dr. Heras. Well during those 2 days, Dan and I came down with something. We both were achy with bad sore throats and colds. It didn't really feel like strep so we didn't go get it checked. Meanwhile, Brooklyn's ears were still draining and it was getting worse. They are draining this white, gooey junk and it was all over her shoulders on her shirts. On Thursday, Zane woke up with a fever and sore throat and Lindsay and Gavin both complained of sore throats. I took them all with me to see our ear doctor. As soon as Dr. Heras saw Brooklyn's goopy ears, she said "that's a strep infection in her ears." WHAT?" I asked her if we could get strep throat from it because we had some symptoms. She said, "Yep, it's probably all over your house." She checked all the kids throats, Zane's was the worst looking so she swabbed his. It was POSITIVE for strep, so she put all 6 of us on Amoxicillin. So the picture above is what my fridge and counter looks like when we all have strep!