Peanut allergy take 2...

Today was a baking day. No bake coookies and puppy chow. Both of which Tal cannot have since they contain peanut butter. The no bake cookies only had a spoonfull in 2 batches and the puppy chow only had half a cup. Not a whole lot once it is spread out. Everyone was snacking on the yummy goodness while Talan was sleeping, and the kids were even lectured to wash their hands and brush their teeth if they ate the treats. Either one of the children was not listening during this lecture or the adults didn't realize they should also be listening to this lecture (myself included) because Talan developed hives on the side of his face. This is mostly where he gets kisses. Benadryl knocked the hives out...and Talan for that matter, but we know know....

the peanut allergy has not gone away. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRAD!!!

Today is Brad's birthday. Well, today in Iraq, tomorrow in the states. I'm celebrating with him on Iraq time though so I guess he sort of gets 2 birthdays.

Happy Birthday Love. We love you and we miss you!!!

Brace yourself

Something amazing has happened. The christmas season is upon us which means, my favorite drink of all time is in stock. Sparkling red grape juice (not the amazing part I was talking about, but fairly close). As I was savoring the entire bottle of wonderfulness I was tearing away at the gold foil on the top of the bottle. Peeling and picking at it. Then it happened. I took one look and yelled for people to come see my creation. After tonight I totally get what it feels like to be those crazy people on ebay selling a piece of cheese that looks like Queen Elizabeth.

Behold my masterpiece. I call it.....Peter Pan.

Best sour face in all of Kansas

I believe it was a sour fruit snack.

Note to self

Temporary tattoo + Ashton's face = scary kid at school

Over the weekend Ashton found these very cool tattoos that go on your face. There is a pirate, clown, dragon (ashton is wearing the dragon), tiger, and a page of random facial hair. Yesterday I told him we could put one on not really thinking about it. It looks super cool, but it didn't exactly come off. 

Good luck at school today, Ashton. So far it is 9:40 and I have not gotten a call from school, although I fully expect to. 

Ashton asked me to take a picture titled "I'm fearless" and this is the post and facial expression  which he came up with.

He survived!

In case you didn't know, and since it is an important fact for this particular blog post, Ashton was born tongue tied. I didn't know it, and no doctors ever said anything to me. It wasn't until he was 4 that I made this discovery. I was watching A Baby Story on TLC, and a woman had a baby who was tongue tied. She explained what that term meant, and that she had taken her baby to get the tongue tie clipped days after birth. From that point until now, 2 years later, I have talked endlessly to the military doctors about getting it fixed. Military doctors, I've found, don't really like to do much of anything. They brushed me off, mostly because he didn't have any speech problems. 

Once we moved to Kansas and live too far from a base to go for military care, we found our own doctors. Finally a civillian! As soon as I mentioned his tongue-tie I was refered to an ear, nose, throat dr. He said it wasn't that bad, but it was bad enough to do something about. 3 months later the procedure is complete. Ashton did excellent, and I think I was more nervous than he was. The doctor numbed him up with a cotton ball, gave him a shot of more numbing medication and snipped away. Ashton can now stick his tongue out of his mouth. He doesn't know how to stick it straight out yet, and he says it feels weird, but he's thinks it is the coolest thing ever. On the way to the car after the procedure he had his tongue hanging out of his mouth the entire way.

(this first picture will also give you a good look at another one of my freak outs. Look at the size of that tooth coming in on the bottom. It is taking up 2 spots. How are 2 teeth supposed to fit? Its completely freaking me out.)

In recovery.

He knocked something loose

Ever since Tal fell down the stairs he's been acting strange. He has started shaking his head no. This is the most bizarre I have to say. 

Talan tumbled down the steps today. Well, I suppose 'tumbled' is quite the understatement. He flew, bounced, and rolled down the steps. For the past few weeks we have had no baby gate. Talan has been doing excellent turning around and going down the stairs backwards. I'm not exactly sure what happened this morning. Lately his favorite thing to do is throw things down the stairs or from the loft. I think he tried to throw his milk down the steps and lost balance and down he went. 

As soon as I heard him rolling down the steps I ran to the top. By the time I got there he has half way down and all I could do was watch him reach the tile at the end of the steps. 

He is okay. No broken bones. He has a little rug burn on his cheek, but looks pretty untouched. Now Brad needs to fall down the stairs so he can join the club of clumsies!

Halloween 2008

We had a family theme costume this year. Ashton was the turkey hunter, Talan was the unsuspecting turkey, and I was the sign giving my turkey hunter permission to shoot his brother. At Trunk or Treat the kids won 'most hysterical' costume. 

Uncle Clint took Ashton trick or treating which he complained about the entire time. He didn't want to carry his bag....his feet hurt....his hat was hot. The list goes on, and needless to say, they didn't last very long. When they got back to the house Ashton had more fun handing out candy to all the other kids. Not too bad of a deal for me! 

Just like dad

A shoe store here in town hosted their second annual Munchkin Fun Run today. Ashton was very excited to run in the 1/2 mile race. I was very impressed at how well he did. He came in at 3 minutes 59 seconds.  He believes he was in second place, but he was in 8th or so place. I'm just letting him think he came in second. Next time he wants to do a full mile because "this was too easy."

Getting ready to run!Yes....I am running the half mile.
What a face. He is totally moving past this guy. (the parents could run with the kids if they wanted. It wasn't some strange adult trying to beat all the little kids)

This is how Tal enjoyed the race.

Yay Ashton!!!

The little kid in the red was going down. Ashton was passing him and then he got distracted by me on the sidelines. Thats okay. We will let that kid think he won.