January So Far

Time sure does go by so fast! We now have a 1 yr old! We had a little family birthday party for him the Saturday before his real birthday(which was January 3, 2008). We were able to fit everyone the came in our little apartment! Woohoo! I attempted making lego cakes and realized that it was much more work than I EVER want to do again. Lucky for me, my sisters Sharon and Celeste saved my life by coming over early and wrapping Ammon's presents and helping me frost the cakes. I would have been halfway through by the time people showed up if not for them. So thank you!

The party was fun, and Ammon sure was spoiled. He loves all of his gifts and plays with them all the time. I am very grateful to everyone that took the time to come and celebrate with us. Thank you! At first, he wouldn't eat his cake, he wanted me to spoon feed him, but after he got used to the new stuff on his tray, he picked it up and loved it. And, of course, broke out in hives....More to come about that.

The cake was so crumbly even though I froze overnight, and it didn't come out of the pan cleanly at all. I must not have used enough flour and pam. Oh well. It tasted fine I guess. If you squint your eyes, they actually look kind of like legos!




For Christmas, my parents gave Ammon a Thomas the Train book. I was gone one day for a couple of hours and while Matt was in charge of Ammon, he built him a train! I never would have thought of doing something like this. This is one reason dad's are so great! Ammon loved it, and loved being pushed around pressing the fun buttons.


Ammon is officially into everything he can manage to get into. I bought cupboard locks, but they don't work with our cupboards, so I just have to keep telling him no, try to redirect him and move him somewhere else. He can open drawers and even cupboards that have magnets keeping them shut. He especially likes the movie drawers. It can be frustrating telling him those aren't his toys over and over, but I really like this stage. He's fun to play with, he's starting to cuddle more, and he's just so happy almost all of the time.

Tuesday we took Ammon to the allergist. We discovered that he allergic to eggs(birthday cake.....), peanuts, and tree nuts. No wheat, woohoo! I'm very grateful he grew out of that. Anyway, the pictures below of the skin test they did. The top left hive is the control prick. And below that is the egg prick. I think the bottom right was the negative prick. They also tested, like I said, peanuts and mixed nuts, cat and dog, and wheat. I was really nervous or this appointment, first, because I was dreading to find out what he was allergic to, and second, because I get nervous around needles, and scary stuff like that. I'm so glad that Matt was there to help Ammon and me be brave, ha ha. Ammon did amazingly well. He didn't even cry when they were pricking his back until they were almost done, and it wasn't very much at that. Then they had to take some blood, and he did great with that as well. He was very happy most of the time and I'm so glad I remembered to bring snacks because we were there for 2 1/2 hours.

His reactions aren't very severe(just hives so far) but the allergist still prescribed an epipen. She said it's better to overtreat than undertreat, and be prepared if he does have a more severe reaction. Depending on the blood test results, we may be able to give Ammon baked foods with eggs, such as muffins, rolls, etc. For like 6 months and then test more, but definitely no french toast, scrambled eggs, stuff like that. She also explained that often with children if they just don't eat something for a long time that they're allergic to, their body forgets it's allergic and has grown out of it. So I don't want to set myself up to be disappointed, but I guess we'll see in a year if anything has changed.

That was kind of an emotional day for me, but it is also nice to know exactly what he's allergic to from a test. So we're introducing our families to the epipen and teaching them how not to stab themselves. Fun stuff!