Three Bears and A Buckeye

Sunday, May 1, 2011

My poor Evan

We made it 6 years without Evan having strep, but we ended that streak this weekend. He came home Thursday feeling yucky and stayed home Friday. He felt great Saturday , but after his baseball game, he asked to take a nap on the couch...so not like him. He had a fever and felt awful. We took in him in today and had a feeling he had strep. Hopefully, with antibitoics he will feel better soon.

Despite the strep, my little guy had a hit at his baseball game. I do find some humor in the fact we made it through cold and flu season with no illness for him and ended up sick in May. Such is life.

Flank Steak with Spicy Cream Sauce

The cream sauce had chives and parsely from the garden and that's my lettuce!:) The spcie in the sauce was horseradish.

Hutcheson Upgrades

Our new Keurig

My anniversary gift....with its cute pink case!

Generally, it takes Jon 2 years to buy anything digital/electric without doing tons of Consumer Report driven research:). He surprised me with a Kindle for our anniversary. I LOVE it, it is every readers' dream.

We have been discussing a Keurig forever. Jon has one at work and lots of our friends have one. I have been hesitant, but everyone I know that has one, loves it. So, I surprised Jon with it for our anniversary. It is better than I could have imagined. I love that I can just have one cup if I want. Jon and I also like different types of coffee on the weekend, so this solves the problem. I cannot say enough good things about it.

Lettuce!

My first lettuce harvest....so exciting and delicious! Even my, less than organic hubby, thought it was amazing!

Friday, April 22, 2011

We are officially in the "asthma" club

After many episodes of breathing, coughing and wheezing issues even with several allergy meds, Luke is officially on an inhaler. This has been an ongoing issue during allergy season and whenever he gets sick since he was about 18 months old. After being treated with oral steroids last month, we were back at the ped today after 2 straight days and nights of wheezy coughing.

The upside of the inhaler is that a year of the inhaler equals the amount of steroids in 4 days of oral steroids. Less steroids in his system=much happier mama.

We chose a less time consuming method of med delivery and he did great with it tonight. He has felt so crappy with the cough that I think he is more than happy to do whatever it takes to feel better.

The downside of starting competitive sports at 5...

Icing ankle inuires at 6! Evan has soft tissue injury on his ankle and icing a 6 year old even when Mommy is a veteran of sports injuries, is challenging.