He Is Turning Two!

Oh my goodness, I think I am going to cry. He is turning two. How can he be two already???? Wahhhhh.

Liam on his 1st Birthday!

What is a mother to do? I dont want him to grow so fast :-(

Dragging his blanket thru the water

And this sums up how I feel right now when I think of my baby turning two:

Happy Valentine's Day!

My perception of Valentine's Day has changed a lot throughout my life. When I was in elementary school it used to be about hand making Valentine's Day cards to give to all my class mates at school. I used to dress in cute red outfits and I made sure I wore a heart barrette in my hair. As I got into high school, somewhere in between aqua netting my hair and writing letters to friends on a daily basis, I realized that I do really love Valentine's Day. In high school Valentine's Day was all about receiving loves notes taped to my locker, or a boyfriend clad bouquet of roses waiting for me outside of school to pick me up (in his handicap van- no less! Now I can call that boy who drove the craziest van ever, my husband!). After high school came marriage. Once married, Valentine's Day was all about a nice dinner and a quiet evening. Sometimes it included a massage somewhere or a day in the mountains. Now, with a two year old my Valentine's Day changed yet again.


Liam- 20 minutes old!

Even though my two year old does not understand the concept of Valentine's Day I still like to celebrate it with him. After all, Valentine's Day is about showing someone who much you love them, right?  I wanted so badly to send a little Valentine's card and candy to daycare for each kid there, but I didn't have time. So tonight, I am going to make heart shaped cookies (now that he can eat them) and send those with him tomorrow. As a tradition that I started last year we watch Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown. That will be the movie of choice tonight.

I love my husband and son so much. That is why it is SO important to me to show them how much I love them. Why not use Valentine's Day as a day to show them that? Gifts are OK, but sharing the love and spending time as a family is even better! I must admit, Valentines Day is one of my favorite days!

Happy Mama!!!!!

I am one happy mama today! So much good news has come today that I am just over the moon! I don't know how to react. For starters let me re-cap some things on Liam's. When he was two weeks old, through trial and error, he was diagnosed with a milk allergy. No, he is NOT lactose intolerant. He is actually allergic to milk. We had to switch his infant formula to an EXTREMELY expensive non-dairy brand. Once he was old enough we started giving him soy milk and took him off the expensive formula. When he was 6 months old we found out he was allergic to egg. The whole egg. He was given a flu shot and immediately broke out in hives and couldn't breath. It was scary. After lots of blood tests we determined he was severely allergic to egg and only moderately allergic to milk.

His whole life I have lived and learned how to feed my son so that he is not exposed to either egg or milk. I tell you... it is TOUGH. Everything is made with egg.

Every year my son gets re-tested for his allergies. We took him to the allergist and they did a prick skin test. The skin test came up NEGATIVE for both the milk and the egg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To confirm these results his doctor had us get blood tests (oh myyyy, is that another story for another time). After a successful second attempt to draw blood I got his results back from his allergist today. Guess what????? He is in fact NO LONGER ALLERGIC TO EITHER MILK OR EGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can not tell you how happy as a mother I am. My poor child has never had pizza, macaroni and cheese, cake etc.

Liam and his cousin Nolen. They are 2 1/2 months apart in age!

We do have to re-introduce these things slowly, and one at a time. His doctor recommended we start with egg and wait a week and move on to milk. Small portions at first. Wish me luck! I am sooo excited!!!!

Bri- Yes- you can come have pizza with him!!!!

Thank you Jesus- you are sooo good!