ER again anyone?

So on Thursday around 3:00 we gave Collin a few cashews not thinking much of it because he was tested for tree nuts and did show any reaction. By 7:3o his face was purple and swollen but he wasn't having a hard time breathing. So we gave him some benadryl and waited. By 8:30 it was getting worse so I called the after hours clinic who told me there was nothing they could do. So we brought him to the ER, where they gave him some medicine and said we needed to keep him on benadryl for the next 4 days since the nuts were still in his system. No more cashews I guess. Which is sad cause he really liked them.

Other then that we have been really struggling to get Collin to stay in bed. I thought we had that problem taken care of since he has been in a toddler bed for almost 5 months now. His bed time has gotten later and later (went from 7:30 to after 9:00 now) and doesn't take a nap during the day. I have tried everything, but nothing has worked so far. If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear them. I've tried bribing him with food, laying down with him, locking him in, and taking away his pillow, dog and teddy unless he stayed in bed. The food only lasts so long, Landon cries every time I lay down with him, the lock didn't fit on the door, and he decided if it was between his stuff and going to bed, I could have his pillow, teddy and dog. I am so tired of trying to keep him in there, and I can't get anything done anymore since the evening was my time to clean, work on the house, and do the dishes. Now I don't get into bed until after 11:30 every night and I am still waking up 2 or 3 times a night with Landon.

Anyway, I'd love to hear any suggestions that people have.

Yesterday for the 24th our ward had a parade. Collin rode his little trike, and my brother walked with him. He told me later he had a really hard time getting Collin to go out into the road to go with the parade, I guess we've taught him well. :) They had a police car lead the parade, and Collin just freaked out when he saw it. I have some other pictures and a few videos that I'm going to post on here sometime...

Busy busy

We've been pretty busy around here just trying to get things done :) I feel like that is the story of my life. I took the color code test on Tuesday and came out a yellow/red. My mom said if I took it again I would be only red. My sister said I used to be yellow. Then I had kids...

Chase is still looking for jobs. Hope something turns up soon.

Collin is crazy. He loved loved the parade. Everytime a fire truck came by he would freak out. He also loves the marching bands and dances to them practicing when he hears them in the morning so the parade was his chance to show all his good dance moves. He goes to the doctor to get his cast off on Monday. I asked him the other day if he loves his cast. He said yes and tells me all the time "I love my cast" I almost feel bad taking it away. Almost.

Landon is a total goof ball. He and Collin are getting along really well. Chase will help Landon play cars and catch with Collin, and they all love it. I feel a little left out being the only girl and all, but I'll get over it :) Landon has reached his "shrieking" stage. Its been... loud. He has his 4 month appointment on Monday so I'll update his growing then.

Our new closet shower

Thursday night I went into our bedroom about 10 minutes after hearing a small crash upstairs to find a shower in our closet. A cap on a pipe upstairs had blown off and a full pressure pipe was flooding our room. We grabbed some towels and things and figured out how to turn the water off. We used a shop vac to get most of the water out and have been using fans for the last two days. The floor is still too wet for us to move our stuff back in.

Mostly I'm just pretty tired of doing laundry. Probably 90% of Chase's clothes got wet and our sheets, and blankets. And then all our towels we used to pick up water. So I've got at least another 15 loads to do if you include our normal laundry. Yea.