June 2011

We had a busy June. We had the Run/walk for Matthew, Piper's birthday party, Father's day and lots of fun!

Maggie's daddy is in a photography class, so he's been taking a lot of pictures (more than usual, which is a lot!!) Here is a picture he took of Maggie's crazy hair:

So, I guess I can start texting stuff to my blog. Maybe this will keep me more up to date!

It's Hot!!

Today, we went outside and played in Maggie's new sprinkler that she got for her birthday. She really enjoyed it! Every time she went through it, it shocked her, but she kept doing it. I love that kids never think the water is as cold as adults do.

We also got a nice surprise when a butterfly landed in our yard. Maggie reached out her hand (with Chris's help) and the butterfly crawled on her. She just loved it! Unfortunately, I think the butterfly was injured, so we placed it on one of our flowers to give it some time to hopefully recoup.

Allergies already

In the middle of May, Maggie started itching her right eye a lot one day. The next day, we noticed a bump on her right eye and that she was starting to rub her left eye too. We called her doctor, who prescribed some eye drops for Maggie in case it was pink eye. We were going to the doctor that week on Friday anyway. A few days after we started giving Maggie the eye drops, she woke up with both eyes swollen shut and fluid around her right eye. I was panicked, but luckily Maggie was super calm. We had been giving her Benadryl already, which was definitely helping her. Chris and I took her to the ER, where we discovered that she is allergic to Sulfa, which was in the eye drops that we were giving her. I felt so bad! I am so happy that she was so calm throughout the whole thing. But, I'm afraid she's going to visit the ER one a year at the rate we are going!!

Aunt Natalie's May visit

Aunt Natalie came to visit everyone during Memorial day weekend. It is always so nice to see her. Maggie just loves her and can't stop talking about her when she leaves. It was somewhat of a short trip, so we didn't do much, but we had fun.

I drove Maggie & Ethan to pick Natalie up at Mary's house in Davenport. Unfortunately, Maggie had another allergic reaction while we were there. Her right eye (& eyeball) was swollen again. We had to run and get her some Benadryl, which did seem to help right away. We're not sure what the reaction was to, but I hope it wasn't the dog!

On Friday - Sunday, we basically stayed around my house because the weather was not very nice. Then we drove down to Danielle's to drop Natalie off there. On Monday, we went to Justin's Grandma's house to celebrate Memorial Day. Maggie went on the paddle boat with Justin, his cousin, Natalie, and Blake. She played in the sand and the lake a lot. She even fell in a couple times, but laughed about it. We also took a ride on the pontoon boat and Maggie helped Justin drive.

We had to leave Natalie then so we could head home, but we are really looking forward to seeing her in July!



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Zoo again

We love the Brookfield Zoo. We have been going a couple times a month. Every time we go, we see something new. For our most recent trip, we went to 3 new exhibits that we hadn't seen before. We also stopped by the butterfly house on the way out. There were so many butterflies! It is really beautiful. Maggie and Ethan just wanted to stand in one place and stare at the butterflies. We will definitely be going back several times this summer.

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Swim Class

Maggie started swim class 3 weeks ago & she loves it! She can't get enough. As soon as we get there, she wants to jump in the pool. We only get to be in the pool for 30 minutes, but we enjoy every second. After the teacher goes through the activities (torpedo, humpty dumpty, big spider, and splash!), we get some free time and Chris swims around in the deep end with Maggie. She talks about it all week until we get to go back again. She's a swimmer, just like her daddy!

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