weekend in review.

in photos.
well, except for today. i didn't take any of the terrible bear loss which we only kinda watched since we gave up and cleaned the windows!

so...
trouble. in three glasses. nick didn't realize when he ordered the larges that we were getting fishbowls. pfwhoa.

yogert with his. we went out for his going away party. we missed the one with all of our friends last weekend thanks to both ben and i being sick.

 dude. there's no way i'm finishing this. i'm so out of shape...

seriously, you could drink for an hour and it didn't put a dent in the darn thing!

and this is what happens when yogert finishes two. ;o)

 saturday was my cousin's 21st birthday festivities...
cheers to matt.

ben had to join the fun and wear a party hat. it's good practice for his 1st which is fast approaching!

chillin with grampy.

 great family photo, right?!

then there's fun with party favors and family love...

 

had the darndest time not cutting off kevin's head in these pictures. 

 

the maturity level between these two is mind boggling. ;o)

 

again, no pics today.
just nice and sparkly windows!
oh and our butts beat in volleyball. but eh, that's okay. we had fun. and jill got to play shoeless which was hilarious. thanks to jerbear and grandma shell for babysitting on such short notice. ;o)

hi.

i got nothing, this time change is killing me. well, us. ben likes to try and fall asleep at 7. nick wants to too. and i hate the dark. so i want to too!
lame post. whatever.
here's ben thoroughly enjoying his most favorite toy...

i blame

yogert and his going away dinner for my uber lame post.
that and nick deciding we needed the giant effin margaritas from la caretta. ooof.
fingers crossed ben sleeps for a bit tomorrow morning. mommy and daddy would really appreciate it. ;o)
and oh so thankful for grammy and granpy who watched ben on short notice!
less lame post tomorrow... maybe. if my cousin's 21st birthday party doesn't do us in!!

right now.

i love that ben has been hive free for 24 hours and afrin.
however, i have taken afrin for three days so now i have to kick the habit which totally sucks!
all i want is to breathe through my nose again!!
hoping some retail therapy tomorrow helps. headed to lighthouse with coupons to shop for wee man. homey cannot wear long sleeves. he's a sweat machine. and what can you only find this time of year? long sleeves which means pantsless baby at daycare. so i'm hoping to remedy that at the outlet mall.
back tomorrow with a less lame post... maybe.

pw love.

i've posted about our obsession with pioneer woman before. nick's a huge, huge fan.
did you know that pw was on bonnie hunt last week? i love getting to hear what people i 'know' from online sound like! she was super cute. and she was there promoting her cookbook. i totally want one but am worried that most of the recipes are online... but still $15. i don't think i'll hold out much longer!

so we've made some more of her recipes. thought i would interrupt the ben posts {he still has hives} with some food.
k. back to pw. and her yummy recipes.
we've recently made the following:

• ribeye with blue cheese sauce: totally yummy. the cheese sauce can be a bit much. but yum. oh and we've used alton's way of cooking them. i love cast iron skillets.
• drumsticks: totally moist chicken. can't say that always happens. will absolutely make this again.
• mac n cheese:  who doesn't love a good mac n cheese? i know, my father in law. he prefers kraft. ;o)
• seasame noodles: might be nick's all time fav recipe of hers. it was tasty.
• spaghetti with artichokes and tomatoes: delish. so good. and wasn't like crazy flavorful, just so good.
• steak bites: for all you local peeps, three words. house. of. kobe. yup, enough said.

then pw decides to start an online recipe site. sigh. you can find it here. yes, i've made stuff from here too. all good. but that's another post! 

and for those of you here to check on ben. he had hives again this morning. we gave him the amoxicillin and he went to school. one hive while there so they gave him some bendaryl.  he's been hive free since.  he'll get another dose of amoxicillin tonight and we'll see what happens. ;o)

bzzzz.

get it.
the hives are still here. stayed home with ben today.
had hives when he woke up. doc said give him benadryl. nick had to run to walgreens before work so we could give beaner a dose. thankfully, that was all he's needed today.
woke up from two naps with red splotches.
have to call pedi in the am and we're gonna give him some more amoxicillin with the benadryl and kiddie steroids on standby.
thinking it cannot be med related since he's still having hives/redness and hasn't had a dose of it for over 24 hours now.
who knows!
here's a fun video for you. still can't figure out the hd camera and uploading. and i can't rotate the damn videos either. so you are stuck with one of the four i took today. wah.
okay. maybe i'll share a rotated one too. just turn your head to the side and pretend it's normal. ;o)



and pretend it's the right direction...

the one where ben rides in an ambulance.

got a phone call a little after noon. ben has hives. what do you want us to do? uh, i freaked. call nick! so nick tells daycare to go ahead and call the ambulance since they say his face is swollen, he has hives to his face and body.
neither one of us were expecting an allergic reaction four days after starting antibiotics. but apparently, this is common place in kids. ah, the joys of parenthood. always something. always learning.
leave work. get to er and tell them i'm here for ben. the 7 mo old coming from daycare with hives. uh, there's no ben here. and they haven't called it in from the ambulance. what? it's almost 30 minutes after the original phone call. so i call daycare and yup. they're in the parking lot. getting ben situated, will be on their way shortly. aunt laura is keeping him company. ;o)
nick meets me there and we chill in the ambulance bay. dude, was it nice out or what? anyway.
the ambulance pulls in and we go through the er. i tell the lady i'm back and my kid is coming in now. she sends us back. nick goes to meet the ambulance while i deal with fun insurance stuff. then i hear them right outside the door. keep thinking to myself, why are they here if he's have an allergic reaction? shouldn't they be giving him something. finally the little old lady finished taking my info and i walk out to the nurses station and here's mister ben chilling in his car seat like nothing is wrong.
he has a killer hive on his right elbow. see a little bit of a splotch from where there was one on his thigh. apparently, they were all over his face and resolved on their own. strange.
the triage nurse keeps asking why the ambulance and even the emt's were like he did have hives and facial swelling. nurse gives him the once over and sends us to a different waiting area. i decide to take off his onesie and find these lovelies...

not hives. just strange rash. by his right shoulder and ear too... strange.
we chill in the waiting area for quite some time. ben is awesome. just a bit fussy. we fix that with a bottle and he's mister happy and observant.
i told nick to take some pictures. why  not, right? i'm sure the staff thinks we are nuts. whatever. i don't care.
cheese...

the rash is resolving to his shoulder. can see a bit of red on his ear...

 

so we wait some more. then the doc comes over and checks him out. says it is an amoxicillin reaction. great. our kid is allergic to penicillin. sigh. they give him some kiddie steroids by mouth. boy that was fun and we wait some more. finally get ben to take a nap and they discharge us.
yay. until we go to put him in his carseat and he has three tiny hives on his right cheek/jaw line. um, i thought he got meds for this? what is going on? ask the nurse to send the doc back.
doc says that it could just be sensitivity to his saliva. one of his kids had this problem. thought we were okay to go home since the trunk rash resolved.
no problem. i'm a nurse. i can handle it.
those three little hives turned to this by the time we got home.
not the best pictures but you get the idea.

well, no kidding daycare freaked out if he looked like this. and here is ben all chill like nothing is wrong.

 

why you taking my picture mom?

oh, more hives. on my leg... yeah, what is the problem?

get him changed and settled and he naps. and what do i see? more hives. oy. this could get old.  ben just needs to get better. no one wants a sick beanie.

finally after he woke up from his nap he was relatively hive free. yippee!!

isn't that a great 'i just woke up and you've got that gd camera in my face already? come on mom!' face?

so he's been hive free for about 2 hours.
nick has talked with our pediatrician. not sure that it is a true allergic reaction. holding off on the amoxicillin for the evening. no kiddie steroids as prescribed by the er doc. call pedi in the morning and give an update.
phew.

oh and it's nablopomo.

i'm trying it again this year. we'll see how i do! ;o)