sorry, I'm sharing this story from about almost 2 months ago.

I started giving Aaron some american cheese, noticed in a baby magazine he was at the right age to start tasting cheese.  I placed about 4 little pieces of cheese in front of him he ate each piece and couldn't get it in his mouth fast enough.

2 min. later viviana says "mom look at his face! " it had bumps and redness around his mouth and his nose was running.  My hubby was home, as we had just gotten home from the hospital(aaron had a dr. appt for his leg-i'll post later) so anyway, hubby  said what did you give him?  I said "cheese".

Aaron was sneezing non-stop and coughing!  he was looking worse by the moment,  I remember we had benadryl so i got some in his mouth( he was  screaming and fighting)  We then were really scared as his breathing seemed heavy!  so we decided to call his dr.(hubby works at the dr. office) the dr. asked his symptoms and she said it sounds like an allergic reation.  We asked if he should go to the ER she said if he looks like he's having a hard time breathing"  So we made the decision to go to the ER that is about 2 minutes away. 

Big Mistake.....i walk in and there is not a triage nurse in site( it is 1pm) there are tons of people standing around...i'm panicked, looking for help..finally, the security guard says "can i help you?"  I explained all that happened and he said he'd tell them back in the ER  so he came out minutes later and said someone will be out.  we were there for about 15 minutes!!! and no one came out!!! by then thank God his face and breathing was getting better.  A man came out and said what's the prob,  I said that the baby was having an allergic reaction to cheese, he glanced at aaron and said he'd be back! what? 

by then, I told mike that we should just take him to see his dr and if he could give her a quick call.  mean while I hear the security guard telling a person that they are backed up and won't get to him prob for a few hours and that there was no more beds!  I knew for sure we had to get out of there!

So Aarons dr. said to bring him in, we walked in and they saw him within 10 minutes!!!(by then his swelling and bumps were gone he looked normal again. The dr. said she could run to tests to find out exactly if he's allergic to dairy and see if there is anything else he's allergic to.

Well upon the results he's allergic to DAIRY and PEANUTS!!!!  oh man......poor little guy... and what i learned, if I eat those food products it can be excreted in the breast milk!  soo.....i have been trying to stay away from large amounts of dairy and will not eat peanuts anymore until he is weaned. 

We have thrown out peanut butter.  If anyone wants peanuts or peanuts they'll have to eat it else where.  As far as the milk, we need to keep him away for all dairy, It will take extra work to keep this little guy away from it but the good thing is i hear he'll outgrow the milk allergy by 5 yrs but the peanut allergy only 20 percent grow out of it!!!  So if anyone has had the same experience please do share with me

It has been a long while since I've shared.  I've been on to see how some of you ladies are doing but just haven't taken the time to blog!  I've been having some problems again posting pictures so that has contributed to me not blogging much as I want to share pictures and just see a box with no pictures, any ideas what i'm doing wrong, let me know!  suddenly it doesn't work anymore...

We are enjoying our summer.  We've been to the library just about every week, I am happy to say my oldest, Viviana, is reading about 1 book a day, decent sized books!  I pray she will love to read, It really seems like it!  She is into the Nancy Drew Mysteries and American Girl Books.  My other two girls have enjoyed us reading to them too.  We came home with about 15 books or so and am happy to say we read through everything!

We have decided to go with KONOS curricullum for the new school yr.  Totally feel The Lord leading us to it, we sure have to work on some Character issues!  Our books arrived yesterday and so far it looks like a curricullum that we will all enjoy to learn from.  We also ordered Math U See for the two older girls.  I will supplement with abeka for grammar and some math for Viviana.  I am also working wth Bella to get her reading at a faster pace, she is breezing through her sight words so that's awesome!

I will be getting together with another family that i met through a homeschooling website and we will do a co-op once a week so we are really excited about that.  I am so amazed how the Lord is blessing us with 2 new families that I met through the computer!

About 2 months ago I discovered I had a desire to work with fondant and decorate cakes!  I have been creating some cakes for fun, next week will be my first actual cake that will be for an event, a friends bridal shower then i will make a fondant cake for my nieces 2nd birthday, I'm going to do an elmo theme.  As I said, i've been having problems with posting pictures so I will try again to post as I'd like to share some of my creations with you and also pictures of the children.

Aaron just turned 8 months old.  He is such a smiley happy baby!  He is soooo loved here...his big sisters are always around him making him laugh and carrying him around( Will he ever learn to walk!)  He is eating some solids not too much mostly oatmeal for babies, he's still adjusting to the new tastes of fruits and veggies.  Nursing is still going strong!

God is so good, he had blessed my husband with a bonus so we were able to pay off another credit card and also use some for the curricullum.  And with the stimulus check we used some for another credit card.  So little by little we are moving towards our goal, to be debt free!  We once again have been blessed through church as my husband received a call from a friend saying they had diapers for use, they had months ago blessed us with diapers galore for both children!  pullups too!  let me tell you when we were on our last pack of diapers that's when he got that call that they had more diapers for us!  isn't God so Good!  this time we have a lot of pullups which is a blessing, let me tell you...Aaron is 8 months and we have never had to purchase diapers for him!  The blessings of our Awesome Lord....JULIET