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fun with the food allergy

February 1st, 2009

What a morning.

Kiddos are eating breakfast, Daddy is giving them stuff in between his own breakfast. Both have colds, James worse off than Evelyn and so they aren’t eating the greatest. Daddy says if they eat their breakfast (a slice of toast with cashew butter and jelly and banana) they can have some gold fish crackers - sidenote, bot kids were so adorable the other day saying “Gold” as I handed them and said myself, goldfish crackers whilst shopping. More on that later.

Well Daddy did give them more crackers, they also got a oatmeal banana bread bar. They’ve had these before and love em’. I sit down with my breakfast to eat with the kids and see lil man has a red splotchy face. Oh no… what did it?

We know him to be allergic to peanuts and eggs though the eggs are a bit trickier as it’s pretty specific as to what triggers. Like just straight eggs does, or raw egg (mayo).

So he is rubbing his eyes and all of a sudden most his face goes red. So we take away the food, and wash him off, I hold him for a few minutes and get a peek at his face eventually and he’s covered in hives.

When we learnt of his allergy to peanuts and even the eggs. The response was a rash on his face, but not hives and it went away within 1-2 minutes. This got only worse. Daddy James heads to the store to get some benadryl. James’s lil tounge seems thicker and he’s extra snuggly.

Eventually he wants down to eat some goldfish. Daddy returns and we give him some medication. It does ZIP. Nothing, nadda.

Four hours later, we have lunch, and go down for a nap, he’s by this time about 1/3 covered in hives on his whole body. Poor lil man, we had to change him as he won’t stop itching them. He’s supposed to be napping now, but with the medications it seems to have lead to some hyperactivity (it warned this) and it took him about an hour 1/2 to fall asleep. Lets hope he sleeps a little while, he’s quite tired from the cold.

I think we might give him a oatmeal bath when he gets up. It’s supposed to help. Or/and I might pickup some lotion for him, though in reading it’s pretty specific the type that won’t work versus will for hives.

Onward to more fun things!

The kids are little explosions of words this week!
Both have started to say or attempt to say things like;
cow
circle
gold
pig
milk
sheep
square
triangle
flower
bird
butterfly
horse
fish

They are both really, really into puzzles at the moment too, EVelyn is like a puzzle pro. I got down one last night I was sure was too advanced for her, but both she and James worked together and got them all!

We got them some flash cards, for the ABCs and we have a puzzle with it too (we didn’t realize but think they are a little small at the moment for them anyhow). They like to do the number puzzle too, but the 9 and 6 give them little trouble sometimes.

It’s fun to see them really understanding us and doing things.

Evelyn is a helper! OMG, she loves to help. She’s a good listener too for things she can help with, like I’ll ask James to get his shoes or something, and before I know it, Evelyn will be getting them and James is taking them away from her

She also tattles, yes at 19 months, she does. She tells us when the door is open and shouldn’t be, and the gate isn’t closed, or the curtains need to be opened.

James likes to learn from afar and laugh and enjoy playing of others. He participates briefly but moves onto new things quickly. He’s very visual and likes to see how things come apart, and how they work. He LOVES the ball-he’d play with that all day. He likes Daddy to throw it up the stairs, and if it gets stuck at the main level he runs and hides when Daddy goes to throw it back down. He LOVES to dance, he has quite the groove/rythm too, he’s very good and dances according to the speed and tempos or whatever.

On a family note, we are VERY happy that James’ mom is doing well after her risky surgery. While we weren’t able to be there for the surgery in a physical sense we were vrey much there in heart. Plus side is Evelyn finally talked on the phone to Grandma! So hopefully that brighten her spirits. James on the other hand, wouldn’t talk. Stinker.

Ttyl!

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