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.
Friday, January 18, 2008
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
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:
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!
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Santa brought it!
I will try and load up some fun Evie videos later but can't get them to play right on the computer here. We had a fun Christmas Evie and a very nice Christmas. It was definitely nice having an alert, aware (and awake the enter time) baby to do presents with.
We went to church on Christmas Eve with Grandma. Evie had no patience for the service but greatly enjoyed chasing and playing with another little girl, Hudson, and crawling through Hudson's dad's legs (slightly embarrassing but he said it was ok). Afterwards we joined up with Uncle Carl and Aunt Reagon. Evie got a baby doll, books and tons of clothes while we were there. She had a lot of fun and really liked her special Christmas Evie nightgown:
The next morning she woke up to her special surprise from Santa: a play kitchen! She kept saying 'Santa brought it' and 'I making food!' and 'cut it'. She was really into trying to cut the fake food apart with the fake knife.
Next, Nana and Grandpa came to over and brought her the Bitty Baby twins and stroller, as well as tons of clothes, books and toys. Here she is in just a shirt and some cute bunny shoes she decided she had to wear right away with the babies:
After opening all of these items and taking a much needed nap (while the rest of us played a cool new game, Life Twists and Turns), we went to great-grandma's house. Evie was a little low on present-opening steam by this point, but she continued to get more fun stuff including a table and chairs set she can use after she makes meals in her kitchen. She also got an aquadoodle which she really liked but we had to take it away because she was putting the pen in her mouth.
Before we left for great-grandma's house, Evie got all excited and started talking about how she wanted to get dressed and put her coat on so we could go 'shopping at the store'. She brought it up over and over and over again--we have no idea what prompted that. The day after Christmas she was insisting on going shopping again, so we stopped so daddy could spend a gift card and Evie and I got surprises for some other folks we know:)
It just seems crazy to me how much Evie knows--like talking about making food in her kitchen (with no prompting) and the whole store thing. She also brushed her baby's teeth and was generally just fun!
The only other thing that happened recently is Evie got some really bad hives on Saturday--we're not sure if they were from a bad food (milk) exposure or a late reaction to the penicillin she was on for her ear infection but one diaper change she was fine and the next her torso was covered in hives. Then on Sunday while visiting the Fishes (Luke and Allison are so cute!) the hives started to look worse again and on Monday morning they were terrible--there were hives on top of hives and her entire stomach was just one big, nasty hive. She seemed completely unaffected by them but it made me itchy just looking! We're still not sure what caused this, but I am leaning towards the penicillin causing a reaction after reading through a medical book we have called 'Your Child's Health'. A rash from the 'cillin usually only occurs on the torso (her butt, arms and legs were pretty much clear) and can also occur on the face--she did have a few small hives on her face Monday but it was weird how some large areas of her body had absolutely no hives on them. She also didn't have any other food allergy symptoms...who knows though?
We went to church on Christmas Eve with Grandma. Evie had no patience for the service but greatly enjoyed chasing and playing with another little girl, Hudson, and crawling through Hudson's dad's legs (slightly embarrassing but he said it was ok). Afterwards we joined up with Uncle Carl and Aunt Reagon. Evie got a baby doll, books and tons of clothes while we were there. She had a lot of fun and really liked her special Christmas Evie nightgown:
The next morning she woke up to her special surprise from Santa: a play kitchen! She kept saying 'Santa brought it' and 'I making food!' and 'cut it'. She was really into trying to cut the fake food apart with the fake knife.
Next, Nana and Grandpa came to over and brought her the Bitty Baby twins and stroller, as well as tons of clothes, books and toys. Here she is in just a shirt and some cute bunny shoes she decided she had to wear right away with the babies:
After opening all of these items and taking a much needed nap (while the rest of us played a cool new game, Life Twists and Turns), we went to great-grandma's house. Evie was a little low on present-opening steam by this point, but she continued to get more fun stuff including a table and chairs set she can use after she makes meals in her kitchen. She also got an aquadoodle which she really liked but we had to take it away because she was putting the pen in her mouth.
Before we left for great-grandma's house, Evie got all excited and started talking about how she wanted to get dressed and put her coat on so we could go 'shopping at the store'. She brought it up over and over and over again--we have no idea what prompted that. The day after Christmas she was insisting on going shopping again, so we stopped so daddy could spend a gift card and Evie and I got surprises for some other folks we know:)It just seems crazy to me how much Evie knows--like talking about making food in her kitchen (with no prompting) and the whole store thing. She also brushed her baby's teeth and was generally just fun!
The only other thing that happened recently is Evie got some really bad hives on Saturday--we're not sure if they were from a bad food (milk) exposure or a late reaction to the penicillin she was on for her ear infection but one diaper change she was fine and the next her torso was covered in hives. Then on Sunday while visiting the Fishes (Luke and Allison are so cute!) the hives started to look worse again and on Monday morning they were terrible--there were hives on top of hives and her entire stomach was just one big, nasty hive. She seemed completely unaffected by them but it made me itchy just looking! We're still not sure what caused this, but I am leaning towards the penicillin causing a reaction after reading through a medical book we have called 'Your Child's Health'. A rash from the 'cillin usually only occurs on the torso (her butt, arms and legs were pretty much clear) and can also occur on the face--she did have a few small hives on her face Monday but it was weird how some large areas of her body had absolutely no hives on them. She also didn't have any other food allergy symptoms...who knows though?
Sunday, December 16, 2007
SNOW!
Yesterday was a mess of snow in Columbus. It started as we were leaving Plain City after breakfast and didn't stop until it turned into sleet/rain which lasted well past when I went to bed.
I ran to the grocery store to pick up some needed prescriptions and things and got pretty far stuck in a ditch off Polaris Parkway on the way home. It sucked. After about 30 minutes I got myself out off there by backing quickly and doing some fancy steering, but it was pretty awful. I don't want to drive in snow ever again:)
After getting home, daddy decided to shovel and Evie and I went out to play in the snow. She was not at all happy about getting into her snow gear on but she loved playing in the snow and was equally upset when I brought her in and took her snow gear off. She also was a big fan of eating the snow--we've had the 'don't eat yellow snow' conversation a few times but I am pretty sure she doesn't get it. Here she is:
I ran to the grocery store to pick up some needed prescriptions and things and got pretty far stuck in a ditch off Polaris Parkway on the way home. It sucked. After about 30 minutes I got myself out off there by backing quickly and doing some fancy steering, but it was pretty awful. I don't want to drive in snow ever again:)
After getting home, daddy decided to shovel and Evie and I went out to play in the snow. She was not at all happy about getting into her snow gear on but she loved playing in the snow and was equally upset when I brought her in and took her snow gear off. She also was a big fan of eating the snow--we've had the 'don't eat yellow snow' conversation a few times but I am pretty sure she doesn't get it. Here she is:
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