Random Things

Kasey now has allergies. So he is on 3 of the same meds Katie is on. Neither Brian or I suffer from allergies (ok, so I am allergic to Ibuprofen, but I am not really counting that.) It seemed like as soon as we pulled into our driveway after our trip to SC, Katie was one big rash. We have it mostly cleared up, but I wonder if she is allergic to FL? Possibly? Hmm....

We had taken Katie to the doc about a month ago because she was throwing up for like 4 days, but continually hungry and acting completely normal. Turns out the poor thing was just that backed up. :( I was so thankful it wasn't something scary! So we had gone to both her PCM and allergy doc in the same day. We left the clinic with 8 prescriptions for her. Holy cow! Mostly things for her skin issues, but sheesh! That just seems excessive. I am hoping she grows out of eczema some day...but the allergy doc says to be prepared for asthma. Sigh.

So back to Kasey...if there is an ant in the house or outside it finds Kasey. I am convinced. He has ant stings from the fire ants all over. I had to take him to the ER the other night (by the way, I MUST give kudos to the Eglin Hospital!!! We left our house at 8pm on the dot, drove 25 miles to the ER at 55mph or so and got back home at 9:34pm. That was record time! THANK YOU!!). He had a few ant stings that had become infected - I have seen this a few times so I knew to act quickly - and we needed to get some antibiotics before the skin infection got into his blood. The poor thing. We have found several more since then. I wonder if they are attracted to certain things in people because no one else is getting stung. This is the second time since we moved to this house (3 1/2 months ago) that this has happened. I think it's time we discussed moving away from FL. Katie's skin is awful here. Kasey gets eaten up by bugs. I had gotten an ant sting last fall that got infected... Is there a bug free zone anywhere? hehe ;)

So enough about that!

We went to the beach down in Destin on Saturday. It smelled. Evidently this time of year a bunch of algae comes inland and stinks up the place. I wonder if that's why the water is so green? ;) just teasing...but it was super stinky. No less than 30 minutes after we got there the black clouds started rolling in so we had to leave. It was ok. Katie's skin was so scratched up that the water and sand were hurting her terribly. And Kasey was fearless and thought he could tackle the waves. My little shark :-) We saw a dead jellyfish which Katie thought was cool and a bunch of little crabs. Ahhh...nature!

I am hoping to take the kids to the Turkey Creek Nature Trail down in Niceville this weekend if it doesn't rain. It's been raining too much to do anything outside. But I have high hopes for this weekend! Katie used to go there when she attended day care and seemed to enjoy it. The best part - it's FREE! So maybe we can do that and make a picnic. Who knows. I just want to get out of the house.