Allergy Success!

Tommy and I arrived at the Dr.'s office at 7:45 a.m. this morning to begin his food challenge. We started with a waffle, he ate 1/4 of it and then we waited for 20 minutes to see if his body recognized the milk in those pieces of waffle We continue on to complete the waffle with no reaction. We then waited an hour to be sure that his body was not going to react. Next was the muffin. Tommy will tell you that the muffin tasted much better than the waffle. We broke it down to 4 sections with corresponding 20 minute wait intervals. After no reaction we then waited for another hour to be sure that his body did not have a delayed reaction. Finally at 1:20 p.m. we were discharged with great success. Tommy can now begin to introduce milk in baked goods into his diet. He is still allergic to raw milk and he cannot eat any cheese, sour cream, cream based soups and other products where milk is listed as one of the first 3 ingredients on the label. However this is huge progress and the Dr. believes that if we begin to introduce milk inside a baked good 3 times a day that his body will begin to outgrow the milk allergy! Healing from God, THANK HIM!

IN State Fair

3 kids at the IN state fair and full of wonderful memories. Allie does not like Pigs, Sammie loved riding the pink horse on the Merry Go Round and Tommy rode rides that would of made is mama ill. We got to see the worlds largest Bore, 1,176 lbs, not very pretty and who knew Donkeys were so soft?

Bike Ride

Tommy has learned to ride a bike with out training wheels! I am not skilled enough to video this talent and then upload it so you all will just have to take my word for it. After 4 tries we got a tip from a neighbor that the faster you ride the easier it is to learn to balance. He has been riding solo ever since. Today he even learned to slow down, speed up, turn back and forth and even turn around with out loosing balance. Now he can't get enough of his bike. We will have to invest into a new bike, the chain falls of every few minutes and I am tired of trying to scrub greese off my fingers. I love to see how proud he is, we are all very proud of Tommy!

Raindrops fallin' on our heads

Today we went to the Library; it is a weekly trip for us. It was sprinkling all morning so it was a perfect day to stay inside. We had a great trip, Allie was less than thrilled but all in all we had a good time. Just as we were leaving the sky had turned black. It was not raining and I remember saying to myself, this must be the calm before the storm. We hurried to the minivan, opened the side doors, Sammie jumped in, we tossed the books in, Allie was set into her chair and then the sky let loose. Tommy and I got drenched. Sammie was scared so she had closed the car door before her brother could get in. My remote was jammed because of the rain and so I could not open the door for Tommy. Sammie yelled through tears of fear, "Mommy, get in!" Tommy came around the front of the car in tears and with fear to find me for help. Tommy and I made it in however we were soaked. We talked about how the rain drops are just water and we were wet but we were safe. I really hope I don't see the fear in their eyes too many times; it really broke my heart to see that.

Silly Sammie

It was another hot day here and so the kids wanted to play catch inside. So I agreed, getting 3 kids covered in suntan lotion can be difficult. We had a total of 4 tennis balls and 2 mini plastic balls about 1.5" round. Everyone was having fun, even baby Allison who loved just tossing the ball and watching her older siblings fetch it for her. Sammie placed the two smaller balls into her front pockets of her daisy duke shorts. She somehow forgot about them and about 5 minutes later she yelled at me, "Mom, I don't have a ball!!!" Tommy and I burst out laughing as she stood there with her pockets buldging from the balls stuffed into them. Silly Sammie, she just smiled and said, "Oh."

God's power

Well we have one more day of vacation bible school and they kids are lovin' it. During our drive this morning to VBS Sammie commented on how big the trees were on the side of the road. I asked her who made those tress and she told me God did. She then carried on as follows: "God made everything, the trees, they sky, the clouds..... that is a lot of blue sky over there....God must of been tired." I replied, "Yes God was tired Sammie that was why when he was done he took a nap, a rest, are you going to take nap today too?" "Nope" was the response without even thinking twice. (Well she ended up taking a 3 hour nap today! As Barney says, "Everybody need a nap.")

Wow what a treat

While in NY we were able to go bowling for the first time with the kids. It was a blast to see all the excitement over watching the ball bounce off bumpers and striking pins down. We will be back. We also went to the Rochester zoo where we were able to see the visiting white Tiger. Wow she was huge and we were very close to her. Tommy was in awe, Tigers are his favorite play toys and activity.