It's been quite the few weeks since Christmas, and it seems like we've been back to the grindstone for much longer than a week and a half!
We got quite a bit of snow in the last few days, and even though we tease Tony about Holly always closing when the first snowflake falls, they have not had a snow-day yet! My mom's tradition with the kids is to buy them their winter coats and snow pants and boots each year (that they need them...Emma still fit into her coat and snow pants from last year, but needed new boots!). Bradlee has been the most fun to watch, since it's the first chance he's been able to really get down and dirty with the snow.
Emma just loves to go out and play and her new boots worked out great! She even helped Tony shovel our neighbor's driveway! Her favorite part, though, is coming back in for some hot chocolate! Bradlee loved playing out in the snow as well. He had a hard time getting up when he fell over, but it only builds character, right?! LOL He really loves wearing his boots ("BOOOOOOOOOOS") and would probably wear them right to bed if given the chance!
Both Emma and Bradlee have been exploring all the gifts they got for Christmas. I think Bradlee is the most fun to watch. I rearranged the living/play room with their toys and games so they could see them, instead of them being closed in a box or closet. This seemed to have been a hit, because they can now just go get a toy, and play. This is something Bradlee's done very well. On Sunday, I was in the kitchen putting dishes away. Emma was playing with her new Lego Pirates at the dining room table and I hadn't heard Bradlee in a while, so I went to go in the living room to check on him, when I saw that he was sitting right by the door to the kitchen! He had gotten out the "Measure-Up Cups" Aunt Karyn got him and was contently playing by himself with them...stacking them, turning them over, knocking them down, etc. It was so fun to watch him explore the many ways to play with a simple set of measuring cups!!
We were doing so well until he decided that he hadn't been sick in a while, so on Friday, he was sent home from school with hives. They had mentioned them on Thursday afternoon when Tony picked Bradlee up from school, but when I checked him before going to bed and in the morning, they were just flat, splotches on the inside of his thighs and the upper arms. They honest-to-God looked like exczema patches, so I put some lotion on him and sent him off to school! By the time I got him to the doctor on Friday afternoon, he had them EVERYWHERE. Only the ones on his face were raised, the rest on his legs, arms, back, hands and ears were flat and he had no breathing troubles (and with my history, I knew to look/listen for that!). The doctor gave him an antihistamine and a 3-day burst of prednisone (steroid) to help clear them up. In the mean time, we were instructed to make a list of everything he had eaten from Tuesday night dinner until Thursday afternoon...ha! easier said than done!! It's really hard, because, as the doctor told me, 50% of people who get hives never find out what caused them...so, we're waiting on giving him any more chocolate and peanut butter (boo!) until he's at least 2 years old and just introducing the other things on our list one-by-one to see if we can find the culprit!
We got quite a bit of snow in the last few days, and even though we tease Tony about Holly always closing when the first snowflake falls, they have not had a snow-day yet! My mom's tradition with the kids is to buy them their winter coats and snow pants and boots each year (that they need them...Emma still fit into her coat and snow pants from last year, but needed new boots!). Bradlee has been the most fun to watch, since it's the first chance he's been able to really get down and dirty with the snow.
Emma just loves to go out and play and her new boots worked out great! She even helped Tony shovel our neighbor's driveway! Her favorite part, though, is coming back in for some hot chocolate! Bradlee loved playing out in the snow as well. He had a hard time getting up when he fell over, but it only builds character, right?! LOL He really loves wearing his boots ("BOOOOOOOOOOS") and would probably wear them right to bed if given the chance!
Both Emma and Bradlee have been exploring all the gifts they got for Christmas. I think Bradlee is the most fun to watch. I rearranged the living/play room with their toys and games so they could see them, instead of them being closed in a box or closet. This seemed to have been a hit, because they can now just go get a toy, and play. This is something Bradlee's done very well. On Sunday, I was in the kitchen putting dishes away. Emma was playing with her new Lego Pirates at the dining room table and I hadn't heard Bradlee in a while, so I went to go in the living room to check on him, when I saw that he was sitting right by the door to the kitchen! He had gotten out the "Measure-Up Cups" Aunt Karyn got him and was contently playing by himself with them...stacking them, turning them over, knocking them down, etc. It was so fun to watch him explore the many ways to play with a simple set of measuring cups!!
We were doing so well until he decided that he hadn't been sick in a while, so on Friday, he was sent home from school with hives. They had mentioned them on Thursday afternoon when Tony picked Bradlee up from school, but when I checked him before going to bed and in the morning, they were just flat, splotches on the inside of his thighs and the upper arms. They honest-to-God looked like exczema patches, so I put some lotion on him and sent him off to school! By the time I got him to the doctor on Friday afternoon, he had them EVERYWHERE. Only the ones on his face were raised, the rest on his legs, arms, back, hands and ears were flat and he had no breathing troubles (and with my history, I knew to look/listen for that!). The doctor gave him an antihistamine and a 3-day burst of prednisone (steroid) to help clear them up. In the mean time, we were instructed to make a list of everything he had eaten from Tuesday night dinner until Thursday afternoon...ha! easier said than done!! It's really hard, because, as the doctor told me, 50% of people who get hives never find out what caused them...so, we're waiting on giving him any more chocolate and peanut butter (boo!) until he's at least 2 years old and just introducing the other things on our list one-by-one to see if we can find the culprit!
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