Craft of the week and some fun outside

Well the weather warmed up a little bit last week and then it began to become quite cold again this weekend. However, we finally made it outside to play for awhile and we did a marble painting project this week. The kids enjoyed it and I would have actually liked to do it by myself and see what creations I could have made but I had to keep track of the kids and the food coloring. For this project we used oil and food coloring, mixed them together and then put it in a shallow pan of water. The food coloring and oil do not mix well nor does it mix with water. So when you put the food coloring and oil mixture in the water it stays in little balls. We put the paper on it and it soaked up the food coloring in fun shapes. The kids got tired of doing it that way and ended up just squirting the food coloring/oil mixture right on the card stock for their own creations. We will probably use these pieces of card stock for future handmade cards.




I have not taken pictures of all three kids for awhile so I asked them to sit in front of our door and play a little bit. Well you would have thought I asked Julianne to run around the block. She was not into it and kept giving me fake smiles and not really playing with the other kids. Nathan and Mallory loved it and keep kissing each other for some cute pictures.


Don't you love Julianne's face. She looks like a teenager.




Julianne perked up after she got to ride her bike and not sit anymore for pictures.

I took Nathan to the allergist today for his yearly allergy testing. Well he tested positive for peanuts again, dust mites and some of the tree pollens for the first time. She said that usually the dust mites show up this early since they have been exposed to these mites the longest. I showed her pictures of Nathan from last spring when he had eczema on his face and arms and his eyes were really red and she said that last spring was very high in some tree pollen and she said they had lots of kids with the red eyes like Nathan. She said he is probably allergic to some other seasonal allergies but they have just not shown up on the test yet. She suggested that if we do not need any other help for allergies this spring that we not have him tested again until he is 4. She did say to keep track of his asthma outbreaks to see if it is really from a cold or from a nasal allergy. So it was good to find out that he does not have any food allergy and that he probably just has seasonal allergies. It will be interesting to see how he reacts this spring and summer. He is doing well now. He had a little bit of eczema on the back of his legs that really itch him but the rest of his skin right now is soft and eczema free. So we will see if that changes in the spring.

This is a picture of him the night of his test. They pricked his entire back so there were dots on his entire back earlier in the day and these are the ones that remain. The dot on the lower left side is the dust mite. The dots on the right side are the tree pollens. I am not sure what the others ones are.

Things I am grateful/thankful for:
-Having a great doctor visit with Nathan. We played ball together and colored
-seeing the girls do gymnastics
-having a good parenting day