We think there may be a problem....

Damien texts me yesterday, right as I was leaving work, and sends me this picture:

and says, "Lexi's eye is swollen." Well, Logan had been eating some Reese's Puffs and had then spilled some in the floor. Since she won't eat anything other than what is on the floor, I think she got into them and has shown us that she has a peanut allergy. She is better today but her eyes are still a little red and slightly swollen. I took her to the doctor and he is referring her to a pediatric allergist. We will probably be going to see the one that took care of Lucas when he had such bad eczema problems; this guy offices with the same asthma dr that I saw when I was little.

Apparently peanut allergies can be very serious and they never outgrow them. My boys are done living off of peanut butter and jelly - we have given the peanut butter we do have to the neighbors. When a child has a peanut allergy, the initial reaction is typically mild, like Lexi's eye, but any subsequent reactions can be severe, even causing anaphylaxis. So, no more peanut butter for us!!! I am so feeling so blessed that we figured it out early and that the reaction was not any more serious than it was.

They are too cute!!

I put Logan and Lucas in the bath the other day and was headed in to give Lexi a bath in the kitchen sink. I thought, well duh, I should just put her in here with them. She really enjoyed herself!!

Lookie what I made!!!!

A few days ago Damien started telling me he wanted some tamales. Well after looking around and not being able to find anywhere close that we could buy them, I decided that I would just make tamales. Well Jeff and Daulton just laughed at me and told me that a white girl can't make tamales. Of course being the hard-headed kind of person that I am - that just made me want to prove them wrong. So, I set my mind to making some tamales. To make a long story short, Jeff just came up to me, kissed me and said, "Those were very good, honey."

I'm not one to really like tamales because they seem kinda bland and dry, but these were very good if I do say so myself!!

If you give something to someone, how do you still have it???

That's what Lucas wants to know. Several of us have a cold and Lucas has been telling me for days that he still has his cold. This morning he comes in and says, "Momma I'm going to give my cold to someone else." Not thinking about it I told him he didn't want someone else to get sick; he then told me that he was tired of the cold and he wanted someone else to take it for a while.

Siblings, what a wonderful gift!!

Two things happened this morning that made me see, once again, that siblings are such a wonderful gift for a child.

Logan came crawling into my bed this morning and snuggled up next to me. This woke Lexi up since her crib is right next to our bed. After I nursed Lexi, I got up to get dressed and the two little ones were laying, side by side, in the bed. Logan would poke Lexi and make some little sound and then Lexi would do the same to him. They both were just smiling so big at each other... it was so sweet!!

I was sitting in the front room as Daulton was getting ready to go to work this morning. He came over and kissed me good-bye and told me he loved me. He then looked at Logan all sweet and said, "Bye Logan, I love you." Logan looked at him with great big eyes and in his shy, sweet almost a small growl voice, said "Bye Daulton, wuv you too." Daulton then looked at Lexi and said the same thing to her.... of course she didn't answer but Daulton had such a loving look on his face. Makes a momma's heart just swell!!!

Now just some random pictures

This is sooooo cute. I think I am going to blow this one up. Whatever Lexi does, Logan has to do too.

Evan has been friends with the boys since they were young (Daulton and Evan were in Kindergarden). Maddox is his nephew and is very sweet little boy.

Daulton just loves to do Lexi's hair. I think he went a little overboard with the accessories though.

Isn't she cute?

Dylan was playing with the camera at MeMe and Granddad's. Crazy kid!!

The boy's were having a potato peeling contest to see who was the fastest. See it all over Damien? It was also all over my floor.

Logan doesn't understand that some things are Lexi's and he is too big for them.

The big boys took the little ones fishing. Lucas looks so excited.

What one does, so does the other!! Dylan has to get his picture taken too.

Dad attempting to clean the fish so that we can fry'em up..... he wasn't very successful, unfortunately.

Jeff's birthday

The most wonderful husband in the world turned the big 5-0 this year. He doesn't look that old, does he? I guess I have made his life so wonderful that he just refuses to age. Ha, ha.

This man is such a blessing to me, I can't even express how thankful I am that God sent him to me. We just complement each other in so many ways!! Where I come up short, Jeff excels and vice versa. I have got to be the luckiest girl in the world to have a husband that loves me and treats me as God would have a man treat his wife. He is gracious, hard working, funny, and best of all, makes such beautiful children. ;-)

I have been neglecting my blog!!!

It occurs to me that I have been neglecting my blog. Recent events keep reminding me of that since I wanted to be able to remember the crazy stuff that happens around here. I only have a few minutes before Jeff is ready to go to bed so I just wanted to blog about today's antics.

Damien was kicking the soccer ball against the fireplace and he knocked Logan's feet out from underneath him. Logan falls and smashes his forehead into the tile floor. Well, he has Jeff's gag reflex so he was crying so hard that he throws up..... while I am holding him!! It gets all over me and him and smelled atrocious! Yuck!!! Damien is standing there saying, "Well it's not like I meant to do it!" Yeah, that helped!!

Dylan is such a big boy!

My big boy is just getting bigger. He has thought he was grown since he was about two. I remember him looking into the window from the porch when he was 2 and saying, "What's up homies!" Because he always hung out with the big boys he didn't understand that he wasn't as big as they were.... and he still doesn't! He does a great job of stepping up and taking over to help out when the real teenagers are gone. He has matured so much in the last year that I can't believe he is growing up so quickly.

He talks allll the time and reminds me so much of Daulton at that same age. He has a great sense of humor and is very quick witted (hmmm just like his momma???). We all love him so much and are so proud of the young man he is becoming.