Never humdrum

We don't believe in being bored (or relaxed but boy would that be nice!) so Evie had some 'fun' in store for us last week. She caught a really nasty virus that made it very hard for her to breathe--she was wheezing and her poor little body was working overtime just to get a small amount of air in with each effort. I took her to the doctor and she had to have 2 breathing treatments there and then we did more at home + steroids for several days to get her back on track. She seems much better now.

The good news is she LOVED her home breathing treatments (the nebulizer at the doctor's office took 15 minutes of holding her down with something in her face/mouth each time). She has an inhaler and a spacer and I think she has confused the spacer with a toy. She requests to hold it all the time and tucks it under her arm like she does her babies! The bad news is that with her allergies and now this reaction to a virus, she has a bigger chance of having asthma, but it is too soon to tell on that. It could also (fingers crossed) just be a random one type event. It was pretty scary!

The funny news is that both the inhaler meds and the steroids she was taking made her psycho, crazy energetic. She would just run around and around and around the couch, giggling and tripping over stuff and dropping things and being absolutely ridiculous. I have some video of her flipping this big lamb 'chair'/pillow thing all over the living room and climbing on it and somersaulting off of it and she was having the best time--then all of a sudden she just flipped it in front of the TV, sat down, put her thumb in her mouth and it was all over. I need to see if Max can help me get video on here. I have tried from my home and work computers but can't get the DVD to read each video as a file for some reason? Anyway, it was a total riot.

Otherwise she has just been doing her normal Evie thing, bossing us around, being cute, in general having a good time.

As her finger nears my nose...

"wanna touch boogie."

Enough said (but another post from today below).

That has milk in it?

And now for an edition of weird things that have milk in them. You may already know that McDonald's french fries contain whey (milk), but as Evie requested to have the same lipgloss as mommy I looked down at the ingredients listing on my tube of peach chapstick and it has MILK in it. Milk in chapstick? Seriously?

I was looking at a chocolate bar a few weeks ago and it was 'milk chocolate' with milk at the top of the ingredients list. Underneath the ingredients list was an allergy alert (you've seen them, right) and the allergy alert read something like: "Allergy alert: Contains wheat and soy ingredients. May contain traces of peanuts and tree nuts." It did not however, mention MILK being an ingredient (like the first or second one even). I wasn't buying that for Evie but on principal I am not supporting that company's dopiness either.

And some more insanity. Did you know that miniaturizing something requires milk? Me neither! But here are some examples:

• Oreos=no milk, Mini-Oreos=MILK!
• Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop-tarts=no milk, Brown Sugar Cinnamon Go-tarts=MILK!
• Pepperidge Farm gingerbread men=no milk, PF mini gingerbread men=MILK!

My most favoritest things though are the labels that say 'dairy-free*'. The * always links back to there being some small amount of dairy in the item. Casein, which Evie IS allergic to, is dairy. It is in a plethora of things that are otherwise dairy-free--but oh well.