Last Saturday

Last Saturday was one of those days, or I guess I should say nights.  I was eating an ice cream cone and holding Lucia at the same time.  I thought it would be fun to let her have her first taste of ice cream and she was begging for it with her baby body language.  What could it hurt, right?

It ends up that she had a pretty quick allergic reaction-eyes red, swollen, and itchy.  She got hives all over her torso and back.  I started to worry about her breathing and ran and got the Benedryl. We gave her a dose and then Martin gave her a blessing.  While we worried over Lucia, Ezra found himself with the opportunity to get into some unsupervised mischief.  In the bathroom, I found Ezra and a mostly empty bottle of Benedryl.  We asked him if he had drunk  the medicine, and like any good one-year old would, he said yes. Chances are he dumped it down the sink, but we didn't want to take any chances.

A taste of ice cream turned into an evening in the hospital for Papa and Ezra.  The gave him a charcoal drink to absorb his stomach contents and kept him under observation for several hours.  The doctor said he doubted that any child would be able to tolerate drinking that much medicine and then he saw Ezra down the charcoal like it was nothing.  He said he had never seen anything like it.

Everything ended up being okay and Ezra talks about this hospital time fondly. What's better than one-on-one time with your dad, a cab ride, Jell-o (his first experience with it), and as much t.v. as you want?

Father's Day

Our neighbor, Jamie, had a great idea for Father's Day. Not only did she share her idea, she also offered to take and edit the photos.  To top it off, she did this kind thing not just for us, but for many families in our little playgroup. Sweet Jamie keeps on proving again and again to be an extremely thoughtful and talented person.

Getting the kiddies to look at the camera and hold the letters just right was challenging, to say the least. To complicate things, Lucia was still not a sitter at the time, so we kind of had to prop her up. After the photo session, there weren't any pictures of Ezra and Lucia together where both were looking or that Lucia wasn't tipping over. Jamie ended up having to Photoshop Lucia's head onto her body. Take a good look at the second picture. You can't even tell, right?

Papa loved his gift!

Rocks with PePaw

I haven't posted anything for months and so here I am playing catch up. I ran across these photos that I took in the late afternoon on a gorgeous, April day. I love how the low sun makes long shadows in the grass and how the silhouetted figures show Ezra and his Grandpa engaged in one of Ezra's favorite activities in the whole world--throwing rocks in the creek. A warm sun, a crisp breeze, and a bubbling, singing creek. It was one of those afternoons when the world truly seemed carefree and perfect. (Especially since Ezra didn't take an unintentional swim, like he had the day before.)