Belated AWESOME news!

So far behind on updating this.. sorry guys. Last week was so busy... and this weekend we were all sick, Nate started on Friday into Saturday, Daddy was Saturday in to Sunday, Alex was Sunday into Monday and Mommy was all day today, but she seems to be feeling better. Hopefully no one else gets the stomach bug we had... luckily it doesn't last too long and we felt great in between the times we... well.. when we weren't feeling great.

Anyways the big huge totally exciting news is Nate passed his peanut challenge last Tuesday!!!!!!! He ate peanut butter on crackers and absolutely LOVES it! So all that's left for allergies is to go back in December and eat straight egg, which we still can't eat... or Mayo or meringues... or quiche. But we get cookies and brownies and cake and lots of yummy stuff!

Oh and we got our pictures taken a few weeks ago... they are our official 3 year old pictures... just a little late. And the last one was super cool, we look like we should be in a jeans ad!

Nate on the left and Alex on the right

Nate

Alex



Alex in the front and Nate in the back!

Do You Know The Muffin Man??????

We know the muffin man and WE LOVE HIM!!!!!!!!!!!
We had the egg in baked good challenge today AND WE PASSED!!!!!!!!!!!
We ate a whole blueberry muffin (made with extra egg) today over a 3 hour period and didn't even have 1 single hive!! So excited!!!!
So what does this mean for us?? Well we get to eat cake, brownies, muffins and of course Mommy's famous chocolate chip cookies we have been hearing all about, plus some other baked good yumminess. However we have to slowly work up to other good things like pancakes, waffles, and french toast cause they tend to have a bit more egg in them... and we can't eat straight egg or things like mayo or meringue yet either. But hey cookies and cake and muffins sound good to us :)

Allergies

Well Mommy finally got a hold of our doctor with the results for our allergies. Alex has the good news. He is allergic to eggs, which is no surprise because he had a bad allergic reaction when he was fed eggs. That is all Alex is allergic to. Nate is allergic to eggs as well, not as bad though. However Nate is also allergic to wheat, but they don't think it is a serious allergy because it only showed up as "weak" on the test.. however he has a "significant" allergy to PEANUTS!!!!!

We both are getting scratch tests done next month to verify and what not.

We both are doing well. Still slight coughs, but Alex's eye looks much better.

Time for naps!!!!!

Tramatized

We were told we were done with it, that it would be a loooooong time before we would have to go through it again, we were talking months... maybe years..... BUT YOU LIED!!!!!!! We had to go get blood drawn yesterday for our allergy tests. We went last month for our thyroid issue and was told that since that came back looking good we wouldn't have to go through the pain and agony of giving blood again. Alex went first and cried and cried and cried some more. It took about 5 minutes for Mommy to calm him down again. Even then he sat in the stroller whimpering. Nate cried and faught Mommy while she tried to hold him down to give blood, lucky for him this time they only had to poke him once. Mommy said when we were all done and calm again that it would be a while again before we have to give blood.... we will believe it when we see it.

Our newly married Aunt Katie (aka Miss Katie.... aka Nate's Godmama) came to visit on Tuesday. We showed her all of our neat tricks and she took us on a walk with Mommy to Subway for lunch. We did go in our cribs for a little bit to allow them to have some adult time while they looked at wedding pictures and talked about Costa Rica. But of course we knew when she was getting ready to leave and whined to come back down stairs..... and it worked.

We have been getting back to a normal schedule this week. Mommy goes to band camp for an hour after Daddy gets home, but other than that it has been pretty boring. On Saturday we are going to Nana and Grandad's house to hang out with them all day. YAY!

Nate's walking is improving he can take more steps now before falling down and Alex is just starting to figure out cruising.

Quick weekend recap

Just a quick weekend update. It was not a fun one. Even though G/G came to visit and play with us, Nate had a diaper rash that went from bad to worse to a yeast infection... ouchie! But Daddy and Grandma called Great Aunt Helen (Mommy went to a bachelorette party for the weekend for Miss Katie) and she told them what to do and its looking much better. Sunday morning Grandma and Daddy then decided that we needed to try eggs for the first time.... bad idea... turns out we are allgeric to eggs. Alex broke out worse than Nate, Daddy called the Drs office and was told to give us Benedryl. That helped a lot.

Mommy came home and everything has been fine since than. We have our 15 month appointment tomorrow so expect a big update tomorrow night or Wed. morning.