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We’ve had a busy week or so.

Benjamin is talking so much now.  I know, I always say that, but it’s true.  You can sort of converse with him now.  When I ask him questions, he will answer in a few words.  The other day, he was playing ball in the tub.  He tried to make a basket, but missed.  He looked at me and said, “Mommy, I missed!”  — He is feeding himself now.  He sits in his chair and feeds himself with both a fork and a spoon.  Sometimes he gets a little messy with the spoon, but not too messy.  He won’t even let me feed him anymore.  He grabs at the spoon and does it himself.  — He continues to eat, eat, eat!  You can’t imagine how much this boy can eat! — He LOVES to play baseball.  He picks up anything that he can use as a bat, holds up a ball and hits it.  He’s actually pretty good!

Ally is doing well.  She had trouble breathing the other night.  She came in our room around 11:30, gasping for breath.  We ran her into the bathroom to give her a breathing treatment that helped only a bit.  We ran the shower for ten minutes to get some good steam going.  That didn’t help much.  We tried to give her an oral steroid, but she threw it up.  Dr. Rob sent us to the Emergency Room.  Brad and Ally were there for about two hours.  They ended up giving her a steroid and sent us home…diagnosis was croup (she had not other symptoms though).  We both stayed home Tuesday.  (I lost my voice and had a bad cough.  I stayed home Wednesday as well.)

Friends of Kids with Cancer had their annual Halloween party at a farm near our house.  We all went and had a blast!  The kids had so much fun.  There was a petting zoo, so they got to pet a baby camel, a 75 year old tortoise, a miniature pony, goats, and Ally even got to pet a 15 foot python!  There was a cake-walk…Ally won a cake.  Both got to go “fishing”…they would hold a fishing pole and put the line behind a sheet where they’d “fish” for prizes.  Ally caught bubbles, and Ben caught a stuffed animal.  Each of them got to paint a pumpkin, and make sand art.  In the middle of the field, there were several beanbag games…we played there for a while too.  Benjamin had his first snow cone, a blue one.  So did Ally (hers was minus the syrup - no ingredient list so we didn’t know what was in it…she ate ice, but she thought it was a white snow cone).  - Besides camp, this was the first event we got to attend as a family where Ally was feeling well.  We had such a good time!!  We were wiped out when we got home, so we all took a two hour nap!