Cute Evie Moment

Last night Evie was playing with my old cell phone that she likes to run around with sometimes. She opened it up and said: "mommy it's not working" and I agreed with her to which she said "it needs new batteries."

How freaking cute!

So, we've been delinquent

It has just been a really busy times with colds, illness, work, school, play, etc that we haven't had much of a chance to fill you in on our lives. Unfortunately, probably nothing too exciting to tell, but we've been having lots of fun--it is hard to believe Evie will be two years old in about a month!

Big news since last update:

• Evie is finally teething again--she only has 11 teeth right now but she has two coming in--one top front and another bottom front. She is doing pretty well with it but is a bit fussy from time to time. I am sure it hurts!'
• Evie went to urgent care for more funky breathing--they did a chest Xray and she is in good shape, just when she gets a cold (guaranteeing we get one eventually too) it makes it really hard for her to breathe. Hopefully she will not end up with asthma.
• We had Evie's first parent-teacher conference and she is doing really well, right on track or ahead for most areas they assessed. It is pretty cool that OSU does these so young. They use Brigance for their assessments.
  
• She can get her pants on (and off) by herself. She almost has the hang of coats and jackets but shirts are still alluding her.
  
• Evie continues to be obsessed with the mall, stores and shopping. She has cried a few times when we got home and I took her out of the car because she didn't want to go home--she wanted to be at the store!
• She can say just about anything (so be careful). She can sing several songs from CDs we own and she is almost able to do the entire alphabet song. In addition, she has the vocabulary to be bossy, fun and we can usually figure out what she wants and what is wrong.
• Evie can be quite the drama queen (as she screams in the background because she doesn't like the cup her water is in.) Some of you might have noticed this when we were at Mike and Mo's to see Brew. Sorry 'bout that. On the plus side, her moods and faces are fascinating.
• Peanut, peanut butter...Evie has successfully eaten peanut butter and cashew butter three times now with no sign of allergic reaction, fingers crossed!
  
• Snow! Evie has helped 'shovel' and she LOVES her snow pants. She wouldn't take them off for hours yesterday even after we came inside. She really wants to be outside today but it IS a blizzard out there. FYI Delaware County has been level 3 snow emergency most of the day. Here is some photo evidence:
  

So, stay warm and safe during this blizzard--crazy stuff! We hope to see everyone soon!

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.