A Little Overwhelmed

My little Abby is allergic to peanuts. A few weeks ago at church, Abby accidentally had some peanut butter and had a reaction. I figured that I should get her into an allergist so that they could determine just how bad her allergy was and if she was allergic to anything else that I didn't know about. Well, this little visit turned into a monster. Apparently allergies, eczema and asthma are all sort of related...and if you have one, you are more likely to have another. I guess poor little Abby has some asthma too...along with the eczema and peanut allergy. The doctor said she was wheezing pretty bad. I got sent home with a nebulizer, 4 different prescriptions, and an Epi-pen. Plus, I need to take Abby into a lab to have her blood drawn for 20 different things that they want to check to see if she is allergic too. I'm starring at all of this stuff hoping that I can remember what I'm supposed to do. My counter is covered in prescription boxes, tubes, bottles and creams.

Now why is it that I can't just have normal healthy children? I blame my husband! He's the sick one...

Who is Who?

Everyone who sees Kaden says that he looks like a Campbell....that he fits right in with our family. I was changing Kaden's diaper today and he reminded me of a picture that I had taken of Josh when he was little. So I dug it out of the picture box and thought, yep they look a like. Cute brothers. Can you tell who is who?

Josh is the cute little guy on top and Kaden is on the bottom!

Better Late than Never

Some cute Easter Sunday pictures.

...and then some silly Easter shots. My boys are never serious....

What a little sweetheart!

Gross

My baby boy is growing up. He can get just about anywhere if I put him on the floor. He's been rolling, slithering/scooting, and in the last few days actually crawling a little bit. Yay...until I noticed his clean white shirt...or it was clean until he ventured across the kitchen floor. Oh my heavens it was kind of gross! Can I just say that I need to mop my kitchen floor more often. Yuck. Poor baby. I just hope he doesn't lick anything down there...

I Love Spring

I love springtime. My favorite is when I can plant flowers. Abby is my faithful assistant. She even has her own plastic hand shovel and rake.
Abby's favorite thing to do was not to dig in the dirt like I thought, but rather to get shovelfuls of potting soil and put them into my pots. She was a great help there. We also saw several bugs and worms. Abby was very curious about our little ant pile that we dug up.
After awhile, she got bored of the flower thing so she ventured into the closet and starting pulling out hats, gloves and boots. Oh boy. It wasn't that cold outside. Yes a tad windy, but not enough to warrant hats and gloves!
And of course this is what Kaden was doing while I was planting. He had a grand time playing outside and exploring the grass (and trying to eat it too.) He also got bored of the flower thing and starting wailing. Lucky for me, Ryan was home on vacation due to Good Friday so he played with the little guy until I was able to get finished.
I just hope that all my flowers don't die this year. I love to garden and have a nice yard, but I'm not a great gardener so my grass still has weeds and some of my flowers die. I'm going to be really good at watering this year. I figured out that I have to water some areas by hand because the sprinklers just don't hit there. Lesson learned from last year. I'm going out to admire my work. Is that just me, or do other people do that too? After I've done something like that, I keep checking it out. Just a weird little quirk about me, I guess.

Camera Happy

I've decided to just throw this out there. What kinds of cameras do you, my blog followers use? I'm finding that my current camera (no offense Sarah) just doesn't have that clean, crisp picture that I'm after. My birthday is coming up next month and I might be able to spring for a new camera. What's good? Now, be reasonable. I can't afford the best of the best here...any suggestions?

Girl Hair

I've decided that I'm sort of glad that I only have one girl. I mean, I love my girl and she is tons of fun to dress and buy clothes for... but oh the hair! I'm not a hair person. I've had the same hair style for like 20 years. I don't change it. It either is down, or in a pony tail. I don't know how to do all the fun and cute things. I don't even know how to french braid. Poor Abby. She gets the brunt of my hair style failings. Today, for the first time ever, I tried a basic braid. I think it turned out very well....you know, for the first time and all. I'm sure it'll fall out in about 2 hours, but it was cute while it lasted.