More Birthday pics

I had some complaints that I didn't have enough pictures, so here are some more. I can't quite get all the titles to match up, but you get the idea.

New Bike

Talking with Uncle T

Pirate tattoos

Making ice cream for party

Grumpy faces:-(

Making cake for party

Pics from the Children's Museum

Happy baby

CA Peanut Allergy

So some of you know that CA hates peanuts and peanut butter. Always has. Well, a couple of weeks ago he accidentally ate 1/2 a peanut butter cookie and actually had an allergic reaction -throwing up, bloodshot eyes, red face, wheezing and coughing. Fortunately, we were able to give him Benadryl and it cleared up. No rush to the ER. Unfortunately, it seems everytime he eats peanuts, his reactions are escalating.
We saw his doctor today and she prescribed an Epi pen to be carried with him. This is in case he has a life threatening reaction. If you ever have to give it to him, he would also need to go to the ER right away as the Epinephrine only lasts for a few minutes in some people.
Anyway, she advised us to be a peanut free house. Which is going to be very difficult for us. No more peanut butter sandwiches, butterfingers, Nutter Butters, and most importantly I am not sure about the status of making peanut butter cups at Christmas. All of this is sort of drastic, but if the allergy is escalating, of course we want to be cautious.
So I am just putting this info out there for those who will be watching him. We will have the Epi pen with him somehow and just be cautious about anything that might have peanuts in it or peanut oil or even be careful of things processed in places that use peanuts.
He is going to have a blood test soon to determine if he is allergic to other types of nuts so we will keep you posted.

Birthday Part II

So I was finally able to upload pictures of the cake. The black box in the front is where CA's name was. He also dressed like a pirate for about 5 minutes.

All in all it was a very successful birthday.

Zoo

Some pictures are downloading okay. This is from the zoo, the weekend we actually had nice weather. The zoo was crazy as they were celebrating one of the elephants' 25th birthday. That is what the ears were for. And I love that IA wanted to hold her friends hand while walking around and the feeling was mutual. Too cute!

CA's 5th Birthday

We have had a very busy week with CA's birthday. For his party he decided on a pirate theme and we went with it. I was even crazy enough to decide on making a pirate ship cake. With a little help from husband, I think it turned out all right. Although I have been warned that now I have set the bar a little high for future birthdays. It was still worth it.

I am having trouble downloading the pictures. Was able to do these 2. JA loves ice cream! She could hardly wait to get her mouth on the spoon.

I will try to download the other pictures later.