Happy Valentine's Day!

Mark was home tonight (Yeah!), so we celebrated V-day by making a yummy dinner together.  Baked mac & cheese, pork chops, caesar salad, and raspberry lemonade...soo good!  And for dessert?  Chocolate covered strawberries.  Mmmm!  I want to eat dinner again...  Hope you all had a Happy Valentine's Day!

Snow!

We got dumped on last week here in Ann Arbor.  It was the biggest snow storm we have had since we have been here.  Kaylie has been wanting to play in the snow ever since.  I feel like a bad mom cause I haven't let her yet...it's too cold to be outside!  But if it will warm up a bit, we may have to have a snow day.  I am grateful for Beach Boys music and blinds that help me to feel like we are in warmer weather...

Bye Bye Lamp

I'm sad.  My favorite lamp, the only lamp that I have ever purchased at a real furniture store (not Target), and that I searched and searched for until I found the perfect one, was broken tonight.  It happened while I was changing the light bulb.  I accidentally dropped one of the fasteners right on the base, and originally thought it was just a small break that I could cover up by turning the lamp around.  But over the last few hours, more and more pieces keep shattering and breaking off.  I guess I have to start the hunt for the next perfect lamp.  I hope it doesn't take me as long as last time.  Bye bye lamp, you will be missed!

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Allergic to Something

So we found out last week that our little Kaylie-girl is allergic to something...the question is WHAT??  We were at a baby shower last week when I noticed Kaylie was breaking out in hives and red rashes all over her body.  

We were told by a nurse to give her Benadryl, and keep an eye on her throughout the night until we could see our doctor the next morning.  


When we woke up the next morning, Kaylie's eye and ears were red and completely swollen.  Our poor little girl looked like this:

So sad!  Our doctor thinks that it might have been the amoxicillin that caused the reaction.  (Kaylie was diagnosed with another ear infection 2 weeks ago, and had been on the drug for about a week when the outbreak happened.)  I am allergic to penicillin, so it would make sense, but it's weird that she was taking amoxicillin for over a week before this happened.  I'm nervous that maybe she is allergic to something else too, maybe some type of food allergy.  I guess time will tell.  She is finally better...no more swelling and all the rashes are gone.  But it was scary!  I am so glad she is feeling better now.