More July stuff

Here's Lily being silly in her high chair (while being well supervised ofcourse!)

We visited Merrick again. He's getting so big! Lily did not have any interest in him this time. She actually took a couple of swipes at him. Good thing Melynda has such a good sense of humour!

I love how Lily's like picking her nose here!

On July 23rd, it was Nana's 50th Birthday! We all celebrated by going down to White Rock beach and had fish and chips for dinner. It was a really sunny day but was still windy. Happy birthday, Nana!

Birthday girl!

I was trying out the zoom. Not bad! :)

Auntie Karen

Lily and Grandpa Lengle

The family

Grandpa teaching Lily to throw rocks

Being silly :)
Dinner time
She loves fish and chips!
So do the birds!

Lily helping Nana open her gifts

Lily enjoying Daddy's cake

We got this guy to put up a buzzard and crows all over Mom's lawn so she woke up in the morning to this...

Lily and Peanutbutter don't mix! :(

So, on July 14th, I gave Lily some peanutbutter on her toast in the morning. She has had PB before but for some reason, she has a major reaction to it this time! Her face became very swollen and she had trouble breathing. I panicked and called 911. We took the ambulance to the hospital where they just monitored her and gave her Benadryl. Thank you to Megan for picking us up from the hospital when the ambulance stranded us there! It all eventually passed through her system but took a full 24 hours before all the rash and swelling were gone. She was a trooper through the whole thing. We are now in the process of getting her tested. We are making sure she doesn't have any kind of nuts and stay away from anything with peanut oil in it. We carry around a bottle of Benadryl and an Epi pen with us at all times.

Here are a couple of pictures I took of Lily about 6 hours after her initial reaction. She looks 100 times better in these pictures than when she first reacted. I took pictures because I wanted people to be educated on how severe and quickly these reactions occur. I still cry when I look at these pictures but they also remind me that life is full of surprises that most of the time we are able to work through.