Happy St. Patty's Day

We started our St. Patty's day morning with a leprechaun teasing us by using our bathroom and not flushing. How rude! Alaina was disgusted by the bright green water lol! Bella couldn't stop giggling and telling mommy that the leprechaun peed . It was cute.I made green pancakes, green milkshakes and sausage for breakfast. The kids loved it, esp the milkshakes :)

Then we took a trip to Lowes in our green attire to get some plants, flowers , new sandbox sand and stone for around the house. Alaina loves flowers, so she's been asking when we can plant our garden. Well, she got to pick a bunch of pink flowers and fruit bushes too. Bella picked some red and white ones. Luckily, we didn't plant all of them with the frost we had last night! 

After going out for lunch, that same leprechaun left green footprints all over the place outside, but that didn't stop my girls from finding his pot of gold. It was so cute watching them get excited over each footprint they found. I'm glad I caught it on my camera.

The following day we went over to Matt's moms' for a traditional Irish dinner consisting of corned beef and cabbage. His sister even made a St. Patty's day cake that looked and tasted awesome! What better way to celebrate our Irish heritage. It was a wonderful green-filled weekend or shall I say week, because the girls got St. Patty's Day care packages from their Aunt and Uncle earlier in the week. Then Alaina had a St. Patty's day party where she made leprechaun puppets, had another leprechaun scavenger hunt, made green bracelets and ate green cookies. Good times!

 Alaina made leprechauns in school and learned a leprechaun song, which she's singing here haha

Cutie patootie

 I followed this rainbow to a pot of gold. ;)

 Love her!

 Silly girls

Allowing her leprechaun to join in on the fun lol

 Looking for all the footprints

 Bella helping sissy find footprints

 C'mon sissy, let's look up here

 That leprechaun was up here too!

 There it is!

 That look is priceless!

 Look what I found!

 We have candy gold!

 Yummy!

She's proud of herself for helping daddy dig the hole haha 

Anne's cake she made!

I went in to check on Bella and this is how I found her. She melts my heart. 

My Irish princesses

It's a ......

Well, we went to my 3 hour appt. where they did the echocardiogram, anatomy ultrasound and then my maternal fetal medicine follow-up. Everything looks normal and our baby girl is doing great. YES!!! That is what I said lol! Another baby girl is on the way.

I couldn't be more thrilled. I would have liked Matt to have his boy, so he don't go crazy with all the estrogen in this house as is, but he was already convinced it was a girl from the start. His dad had five boys before he had his girl, and Matt is the youngest of the sons, so I guess he got all the girls lol! He's actually really happy. I'm just thrilled that she's healthy.

I'm already having a blast buying things here and there for her and I'm pretty sure the name will be Caylin Grace. She's actually kicking as I write this. It's as if she's really happy with the name or hates it haha.  The meaning is, girl;pure, which Matt loves and she graciously surprised us in December, so why not Grace. :) Can't wait to meet you sweet baby girl. We love you so much!

Peanut Free Picnics?

Last Wednesday was beautiful! I opened the windows, took the girls to Soergels to get a few things and see the farm animals, packed lunch and went to the park with the girls for a picnic, and made pulled pork and macaroni salad for dinner. It felt just like Spring! 


Other than Bella breaking out in hives the day couldn't be any nicer. Then the following day she broke out again and what do you know, it was after eating peanut butter and jelly again! I called the doctor and he was to get back to me the following morning when he was in, but it happened again after dinner. This time she was crying and pointing in her mouth. 


Without hesitation, Matt rushed her to the ER to make sure her throat wasn't closing. I know that feeling all too well, and it's SCARY! I couldn't stop getting that image of her pointing in her mouth and it would bring me to tears all over again. It's a horrible feeling when you can't be there for your child. 


They gave her two big shots in the leg :(. The nurse really didn't want to, but the doctor said that she would most likely spit out the other medicine, so she did. It quickly took the hives away and she was back to her silly self again. They kept her there until 1:30am just to keep an eye on her. I just wanted to hold my baby. 


Matt said that she was making the nurses laugh and jumping on the bed, which made me feel much better knowing that she was enjoying herself. Bella was given orders to follow up with her pcp the following morning and to stay away from peanuts.

 Bella did break out again Friday evening, but the doctor said that they would come and go, and unless she was having trouble breathing to continue with the Benadryl. She goes to see the allergist Tuesday for scratch testing. Hopefully, they can tell me something. I sure hope it's not a peanut allergy or anything else serious. Please keep her in your prayers. Thank you so much. 

 May be the last time she can eat that again, unless it's peanut free :(

 Love them so much!