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Tonight we were trying to leave town for a weekend in the mountains, but we got delayed by a visit to the emergency room ...

Annikka's class had a Valentine's party today, and we didn't look over her candies before we let her pick one out. As luck would have it, she picked the one peanut butter filled chocolate heart out of the bag and ate 3/4 of it before commenting, "this tastes like peanuts."

After waiting about 15-20 minutes to see what kind of reaction developed, we decided that we should go into urgent care. Upon hearing "peanut allergy", they immediately pounced on her to get all her vitals (before we even finished at reception), and then gave her an epi shot. Her coughing, redness, and swelling all got better. But ten minutes later, another epi shot and we were sent to the emergency room (they even offered to call us an ambulance).

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She was hooked up to machines and got more meds at the emergency room, followed by a grape popsicle.

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Finally allowed to leave after nearly 3 hours (a little before midnight).

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Luckily, Eila slept through the whole thing.

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Is having pictures from the emergency room a sign that you blog too much?

Fun in the Snow

Out here in the Willamette Valley, there's not much snow. So if you want your kid to ski, you've first got to introduce them to the white stuff. This past weekend Annikka and I went up to Hoodoo Ski Area to sled. We went up with Annikka's friend Mika, and my friend (Mika's dad) Jillian.

Our goal was to let the kids play around in the snow, see what it's about, and watch people ski. Get 'em acclimated.

So, after a two hour drive (!), we managed to get in about an hour's worth of sledding.

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Yeah, the pictures suck. But everyone had a good time, and no one freaked out.

THIS weekend we're headed over to Sun River to try to ski at Mt. Bachelor. We'll let you know how it goes.

Eila's self portrait

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Then she dropped the camera.

Bosch update

I'm sure you have been wondering how life without pacifiers has been going for Annikka (and us) ... well, this picture says a lot.

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Annikka got to have a "bosch" back at the end of November. While visiting Grandma & Grandpa's house for Thanksgiving, she fell on the stairs and nearly knocked out her front left tooth. There were lots of tears, some blood, and somewhat frantic parents. The next morning we realized that her tooth was now slanted inward, going behind her front bottom teeth (a cross-bite). When we came home, I took her to the dentist and was told that we were lucky that the tooth didn't get more damaged and it was still alive. The dentist said it wouldn't affect her permanent tooth, and that straighten the tooth back out could cause more problems. Here a photo trying to show her teeth at the beginning of December.

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But I, with my vast medical/dental training, decided that I would try to slowly move the tooth back into place, hence the return of the bosch at bedtime. I won't lie, it has also made bedtime MUCH easier and she's sleeping later in the morning again. But her tooth is moving forward (after 6 weeks with her pacifier).

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Not sure if it will be able to be completely corrected (or if it's really the pacifier doing it), but I hope the nightly pressure from the pacifier is helping.

Oh, and this is Annikka's new haircut. :)

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Eila's crawling

And our lives will never be the same. :)

Bye-bye?

As we've left daycare the last few days, it has sounded like Eila is saying "Bye-bye" to her teachers and even waving her arm.




Could she be working on her first word?

Eats cheerio ... check

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Today Eila got her own highchair (Annikka still needs her booster seat to comfortably reach the table), and happily sat with us at dinner. She had already eaten her peas, sweet potatoes, and prunes (wow, right - this kid loves eating), so we gave her a few cheerios to play with. Within minutes she had eaten one!



Things sure are different with the second kid, it feels like we've gotten to this milestone really fast.