Big Oops

The thing I have been fearing most at daycare with Evie's move to a new room (where they sit at table and all eat together--no high chairs to keep them separated) happened yesterday at lunch. Evie got a hold of something, probably cheese pizza since that was the meal for the day. However, no one saw exactly what happened (which may be more aggravating than the fact that she ate the cheese in the first place) so we can't be 100% sure but it seems very likely.

The end result was Evie swelling up like a marshmallow afterwards and getting red and blotchy with a rash and hives. When daycare called she apparently looked really scary horrid, but they gave her Benadryl so she looked slightly less horrific when I got there to pick her up. Here she is with still swollen partway shut eye:
I think this picture looks bad but it looked even worse in person, and I'm not just saying that. It really did look weirder and more horrible in the flesh. So the bad news is that Evie ate milk something or other and had a bad reaction to it (duh, that's why we emphasize that she is milk allergic!) but the good news is I think daycare will probably not make this mistake again. I am not sure if folks didn't 100% believe me that she has a SEVERE allergy or what, but she really does have a very serious allergy which we also need to take seriously. Most of the time when I tell people she is allergic to milk they assume I mean lactose intolerant or something more mundane. This doesn't look too mundane though, does it.

It really stinks to take your child in healthy and have her returned to you looking like that, particularly since I think this was perfectly avoidable. Yeah, she may catch the flu or get bit by some kid or even punched in the noggin' and those things happen, but she should not have access to stuff that could cause this kind of a reaction. Hopefully we can go a while before something like this happens again (or never have it happen again would be perfect). Ok, enough of that rant!

So after getting Evie home, I went to send a quick email to co-workers to let them know Evie was fine (after dashing out in a hurry) and while doing this, Evie:

• opened the back door
• walked down the steps of the deck
• ran into the yard and picked up a wood chip which she was thinking about eating...

as I ran out the door having my second heart attack of the day. I cannot believe how fearless she is. Note to self--always lock back door so Evie cannot open it--ALWAYS! It's like you always here too--I just had my back turned for a second (a minute or less) and that's when something always happens. This incident however left her unharmed and un-disfigured so that's something anyway.

Otherwise we are SOSO here. Evie has a pretty extensive vocabulary, including talking about Liam all the time (a boy in her class who gets into lots of trouble). She is also the teachers helper in telling the other kids 'No' and she has taught her classmates the word 'hot'. She loves frozen waffles for breakfast (dairy-free of course) and when the toaster pops she wants them right away. So we always say 'hot, hot, hot' to get her to wait and she thinks it means (I am assuming based on her usage of it) that hot means 'give me more food, darn it!'. I am trying to get her to understand hot means wait or it isn't ok to eat yet, but we'll see. She calls fake soy cheese hot all the time for some reason, and clearly it isn't.

Outside

Evie woke up this morning demanding juice and to go 'side'--or outside. So we spent a lot of the day with nana and grandpa outside, first at the zoo (she held mommy's hand even though she was in her vroom, vroom:
She and daddy make awfully silly looking ground hogs!And then she ate a Popsicle right before we left. Yummy! On the way home we went past the Powell water 'park' and stopped by. Evie thought the water was a little too wet, so she spent a lot of time on the playground:She was pretty fearless when it came to the slide. Daddy went down with her a few times but then she was all about going solo! She got really bad static in her hair which was pretty funny.

Evie switched to the toddler room at daycare and was there for her first full day on Friday. She had an awful time being dropped off but they said she did well during the day and she seemed totally happy when we picked her up. The new room is more group-activity focused and they take naps on cots (we were sure that would be a total fiasco but apparently she just needed a little back rubbing attention and then she napped for about 2+ hours. If being in the more 'grown-up' room makes her more grown-up, we are in for trouble--she is already so talkative and mobile--next she'll come home potty trained in a day and too good for her diapers!

Evie's eye is all better and PQ is back to mostly normal so disaster averted from last weekend! Here is some more evidence as to why babies should not dress themselves as well as Miss sassafras on the computer and double-spooning it at dinner:

What A Day

Today has been quite a day. Last night, Evie had a sleepover with Nana and Grandpa while mommy and daddy went to Shadowbox's late night show for free. When Evie got home she gave mommy a big kiss on the lips before BITING her hard. I had to give her the no biting talk and even without raising my voice or putting her down, she cried like I broke her heart. It felt awful but she really can't bite. I seem to be the only one she taste tests though. Then Evie and mommy went to a baby shower while daddy and grandpa and nana letterboxed.

The shower was at Graeter's and Evie had sorbet due to her milk allergy. Mommy left to help the new mommy put her gifts in her car and left Evie in her stroller with folks watching. When I came back, Evie's left eye was red, swollen and puffy. She kept rubbing at it and no one saw what happened so I kept watch on her and when it didn't get noticeably better consulted with her pediatrician who sent us to Children's Close to Home urgent care. I stopped by our house while waiting for the pediatrician's return call and found Pasquale getting sick all over his crate and acting funny. I tried calling daddy but his cell wasn't doing its thing right so grandma came hover to assist. At this point I was trying to figure out if both Evie and PQ needed to go to their species appropriate urgent cares and panicking a smidgen. Evie won out on who got to go to the doctor first because she's human and her doctor called back first.
We took Evie to urgent care and they put the fluorescent eye drops in to make sure her eye didn't have anything in it. The doctor didn't see any scratches or anything so most likely she had an allergic reaction to something that came into contact with her eye. Since we were in an ice cream parlor and she has a severe milk allergy, I think she may have gotten a smidge of some drop of ice cream she picked up somehow into her eye and the doctor said that could have done it. She has never had a contact reaction before but I guess this means she can't be around milk stuff at all which is scary because everyone else eats and drinks milk products--yikes!

Meanwhile, Pasquale has continued to be sick all evening and daddy is taking him to the vet in the morning. Hopefully it is just a bug and not something super serious. Mommy dropped off daddy and Evie who stayed with nana and grandpa who had been called in to watch PQ while we were at urgent care and mommy and grandma went to get Evie's eye drop prescription filled. The first 2 pharmacies were closed so we drove over to a 24 hour pharmacy that had a 15 minute wait. To kill time, we stopped at Rita's frozen custard and got a much needed snack (but since daddy loves Rita's and we didn't think it would travel well, we thought we would keep it a secret). We came home, put the drops in Evie's eyes and then I noticed my cell phone was missing. Daddy called it and the nice girl at RITA'S answered, busting mommy and her sneaking out to get italian ice. Figures.

Evie cried and was crabbier than normal (allergic reaction in eye + urgent care + eye drops + 3 teeth coming in, including a molar = unhappy baby). PQ threw up on the carpet when mommy wasn't paying good enough attention and now we are about all ready for bed!

To recap our life most recently before today, we went to the fair last weekend with the Imboden's and Gary which was really fun until Miss Thang had a melt-down. She loves Irene and Alaina:
My cousin Melissa is coming to OSU in the AU and was here for orientation, hanging with Evie during a dinner break:Evie wasn't sure about Melissa at first but they are buddies now.

And my final recap will cover yesterday. We went to with Grandma to the Ballantrae water park in Dublin where Evie played in some of the fountains. It is a cool place, and best of all, it is FREE!
She's still a little shy of the spitting water but she did play in the smaller fountains like these. The large waterfall (not pictured) totally freaked her out though.

When Babies Dress Themselves

Can you tell what's wrong with this picture?
You talking bout me?

Busy, Busy, Busy

We went to Popcorn Pops with the Fishes and Sabs two Friday ago and it was loads of fun! Evie really enjoyed running around and dancing, but she also saved some time to snuggle with Carrie and play with Abby, Katie and Allison. It was a beautiful day and lots of fun!The next day we went with Nana to Hoover Grille (an awesome restaurant with some outdoor seating) and to Inniswood Gardens to see the 'Big Bugs' exhibit which is really cool. We forgot our cameras though!

It was also mommy and daddy's seventh anniversary weekend so we all went to the Park of Roses to see where they got married and saw leaves as big as Evie:
We also tried to get a family picture in the backyard but someone didn't cooperate so here she is with just mommy.
This past week/weekend, Evie had her 3rd music class with Glenn and did so good with the songs and putting her toys away. They actually teach some clean-up/good manners stuff at music class which is terrific. Then over the weekend we went to Abuelo's for dinner and the Hoover Grille (again) for lunch with Nana and Grandpa. We also did some letterboxing with them (found 1/2 items--last time we went we found like 0/4). We visited the Grandview Lazy Daze of Summer too to see Laurie belly dance. Mommy, grandma and daddy all got ice cream at Jeni's while Evie ate fruit snacks. She LOVES fruit snacks if you let her eat them from the bag.

I have been commenting on the last post with new words but forgot a really important one: poopie:)