One Year

This day last year was the best day of my life.
I got to meet this guy:

I love this little boy more than anything. Happy Birthday Jamison.
We love you sooooo much!

Alphabet Soup

Ingredients:
1 full tub of water
1 pkg foam alphabet letters
and 1 happy baby.
Mix together and enjoy!

Autumn Evening.

Last night was simply beautiful.

I was lucky to be able to go to the This is the Place Heritage Park for the first time ever for a bridal shoot with Jessica. She had worked there over the summer and so, when we bought our photography pass, she also was able to procure a key from a friend. It was after hours, so we had the whole park to ourselves. We walked up and down quiet, tree lined avenues flanked by picket fences and cozy stone houses. There were lanterns on posts that lit up as the sun went down, and on the slightly chill breeze there wafted the sweet smokey smell of a campfire from somewhere up the canyon. Because she had a key we got to peek inside some of the buildings, decorated with little pumpkins for halloween. As we walked between each shot, she recounted all the history associated with each building.

It was such a lovely autumn evening. I came home and made apple cider and snuggled with my hubby.

A bit of a scare.

Yesterday morning I made some scrambled eggs for breakfast. Jamison looked interested, so after I was done I scooped some onto his high chair tray and let him pick at them while I ran downstairs to put some laundry in. When I came upstairs he was fussing, I thought it was because he couldn't see me for a minute. When I scooped him up from the high chair, I immediately saw that he was covered in red, itchy bumps. (I usally let him take breakfast in the buff to keep the outfit he's going to wear the rest of the day relatively clean.) The hives were all over, on his head, behind his ears, all over his chest.

Luckily he seemed to be breathing fine. I immediately took him into the doctor, who said it certainly looked like an allergic reaction to eggs. She said we could test him for it, but it was a pretty obvious cause and effect. I gave him eggs. He got a rash. All within maybe 1 to 2 minutes. His hives had mostly subsided by this time but she recommended children's zyrtec if he had another minor outbreak (she said they could come and go for the next couple of days) and also directed us to keep some childrens benadryl on hand if he has another reaction, whether or not he acidentally gets eggs again or if he has a reaction to something else. Packs a bit more of a punch, which we would need if a reaction affected his respiratory system, it would help while we waited for the ambulance to come.

Um, yikes?

Fortunately, she said his egg allergy seemed to be a less severe form, which more than likely wouldn't inhibit him from getting a flu shot (the two are somehow related, don't ask me why) and that he would probably grow out of it. But in the mean time, no eggs for Jamison.

So it was kind of a stressful day. Jamison came out of it fine, but it meant I didn't shower till noon, that I spent a fortune on allergy medicines of every variety at Wal-mart and that I now have unhealthy fear of eggs.